PTY5208 · Clinical practice B

Overview

This clinical placement unit will require you to complete a 5-week full time clinical placement in an acute, subacute 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 feedback literacy skills to seeking, reflecting, and responding appropriately to feedback in the practice context.

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. Seek, reflect on and respond appropriately to feedback in the practice context.
2. Deliver person-centred care that is culturally safe, upholds client rights, and is in accordance with legal and ethical standards.
3. Demonstrate professional behaviour through effective teamwork, reflective practice, and a commitment to ongoing learning.
4. Communicate appropriately and effectively across written and verbal mediums, with clients, staff, and other health care stakeholders.
5. Tailor knowledge and skills to effectively assess client needs, including selection of relevant measures of health indicators and outcomes.
6. Analyse, plan and execute appropriate patient interactions, including person-centred goal development and management.
7. Identify, critically appraise and apply evidence-based practice to person-centred care in physiotherapy.
8. Critically analyse risks and adverse events associated with physiotherapy practice.

Workload

A five-week clinical placement, typically comprising 32 hours of clinical placement and approximately 7 hours of self-directed study per week. (Total of 190 hours in contact and associated work).

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