PTY3051 · Physiotherapy 5

Overview

PTY3051 continues to develop students' knowledge and skills in the five theme areas upon which the four year curriculum is based. These are: • Theme 1: Personal and Professional Development; • Theme 2: Population, Society and Health; • Theme 3: Fundamental Knowledge of Health Science; • Theme 4: Applied Practice; and • Theme 5: Research. Case based learning remains the cornerstone for integration of the different themes within the course.

Areas of study: Physiotherapy

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook lists an examination for this unit.

All assessment tasks in this unit are hurdles. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Summarise the aims of palliative care and factors that impact on end of life issues;
2. Explain how a physiotherapist can effectively contribute to health care teams working in the areas of palliative care, mental health, oncology, continence, women's health and amputee management;
3. Demonstrate a range of strategies that enable communication with clients, their caregivers and members of the health care team;
4. Identify how ethnicity and culture influence health, healthcare and illness;
5. Identify how the key elements of the Australian health care system, including treatment frameworks by third party insurers, impact on physiotherapy practice;
6. Apply knowledge of systems including endocrine, renal and reproductive, and their common pathologies to physiotherapy management and patient care;
7. Compare the belief structures behind mainstream and complementary therapies, and their efficacy in therapy;
8. Explain the adaptation of human anatomy, posture and movement to workplace, leisure and aquatic environments, and apply these adaptations to patient conditions and patient care;
9. Describe common mental health conditions and their impact upon patient management;
10. Summarise the overarching principles of management for cancer, including therapeutic, surgical treatment options and physiotherapy management;
11. Justify adaptations in musculoskeletal care across emergency, acute, and subacute environments;
12. Categorise causes and presentation of intellectual impairment according to major groups and match these to appropriate assessment tools and health services and programs;
13. Safely apply patient centred approaches in physiotherapy assessment and intervention in areas of practice including oncology, women's health, amputees, chronic pain, falls, paediatrics and vestibular conditions;
14. Apply sound clinical reasoning to justify assessment and intervention, including completion of clear and accurate documentation that complies with medico-legal standards;
15. Outline the key steps required to develop research project proposals that follow evidence-based recommendations;
16. Describe core ethical principles underpinning health and medical research in Australia and the processes required to obtain human ethics approval, and apply them to physiotherapy case studies;
17. Describe the aims and approaches of commonly used research methods for health related surveys and qualitative research, and apply aspects of their analysis to physiotherapy case studies;
18. Describe the processes for conducting quality improvement activities and clinical audits, and demonstrate their alignment to the Australian National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards.

Workload

Approximately 20 hours per week contact time for the twelve weeks of semester. Students will also be expected to undertake private study and preparation in addition to assigned self-directed study related to the material in the unit manual and further required reading.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.