PTY5203 · Clinical practice 2

Overview

This clinical placement unit will require you to complete a 5-week full time clinical placement in an acute, subacute/rehabilitation or community setting. This unit will enable you to build upon your knowledge and experience to further 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. There is a focus on developing skills in feedback dialogue for facilitating learning in self and others. Additional study modules on pharmacology and feedback will supplement the clinical placement experience.

Offerings

Assessment

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

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. 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 to achieve them;
4. Analyse the role of feedback in learning;
5. Synthesise the input of other professions and the patient/ client/family to reach a shared vision of care plans;
6. Describe and analyse the pharmacological management of common clinical cases;
7. Tailor knowledge and skills to effectively assess client needs, including selection of relevant measures of health indicators and outcomes;
8. Analyse and plan appropriate patient interactions, including patient-centred goal development, and the selection of appropriate interventions;
9. Critically analyse risks and adverse events associated with client assessments and interventions;
10. Identify, critically appraise and apply evidence-based practice to client care;
11. Analyse the ethical principles of conducting clinical-based physiotherapy research;
12. Describe the steps required for an audit and design a survey for a research question;
13. Describe purpose and main methods of qualitative research methods and their use within physiotherapy research.

Workload

On-campus: Students will have a 2-week on-campus study week. This will include 4 hours of lectures/seminars total. 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.