PTY5202 · Clinical practice 1

Overview

In this clinical placement unit, you will be required to complete a 5-week full time clinical placement in either an acute, subacute/ rehabilitation setting. This unit will enable you to build upon your knowledge and experience to develop the competencies required for independent practice as a physiotherapist. Through supervised practice, you will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills in assessment, treatment and client education, whilst working as part of a larger health care team. The professional, ethical and legal aspects of physiotherapy will be applied to practice, providing an opportunity to develop technical, clinical, personal and professional skills. Additional study includes an analysis of client transitions through health services and the use of audit to improve clinical practice.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

All assessment tasks in this unit are competency hurdles. One attempt is permitted. 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. Demonstrate professional behaviour in client care and rights that is culturally sensitive and in accordance with legal requirements;
2. Communicate appropriately and effectively across written and verbal mediums, with clients, staff, and other health care stakeholders;
3. Reflect critically on practice and propose knowledge and skill gaps and methods for ongoing learning;
4. Seek, reflect on and respond appropriately to feedback from others in the practice context and analyse strategies for successful management of stress and fatigue on physical and mental health;
5. Tailor knowledge and skills to effectively assess client needs, including selection of relevant measures of health indicators and outcomes;
6. Analyse and plan appropriate patient interactions, including patient-centred goal development, and the selection of appropriate interventions;
7. Critically analyse risks and adverse events associated with client assessments and interventions;
8. Describe and analyse a client's transition to a new context, referral for further physiotherapy and linkage to relevant clinical and non-clinical support services
9. Identify, critically appraise and apply evidence-based practice to client care in physiotherapy;
10. Appraise clinical practice guidelines used in physiotherapy practice.

Workload

Off-campus clinical placement: You will be allocated 32 contact hours per week for 5 weeks. Variations to placement hours may occur due to public holidays, host organisation factors, or student absences. Make-up placement time may be offered at the discretion of the Department and only when convenient for the organisation in which the placement is taking place. In addition to contact hours, you are expected to complete approximately 8 hours/week of self-directed study related to your clinical placement. Off-campus: During the 7 weeks where you are not on clinical placement, an average of 16 hours of online modules and private study is required weekly.

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