PTY5301 · Clinical practice 3

Overview

This clinical placement unit requires 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 for you to develop technical, clinical, personal and professional skills. Additional study modules on pain management, delegation and telehealth 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

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

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. Recognise when to delegate responsibility to, or accept delegation from, others when it is safe, effective and appropriate;
4. Reflect critically on practice and propose knowledge and skill gaps and methods to achieve them;
5. Analyse lifelong strategies to manage physical and mental health, including identifying personal strengths and learning challenges whilst on clinical placements;
6. Describe when and how a client's access to physiotherapy could be improved by resources such as technology;
7. Develop a person-centred, evidence based pain management plan;
8. Tailor knowledge and skills to effectively assess client needs, including selection of relevant measures of health indicators and outcomes
9. Apply clinical reasoning and diagnostic skill to the interpretation of assessment findings and consequent decision making;
10. Analyse and plan appropriate patient interactions, including patient-centred goal development, and the selection of appropriate interventions;
11. Critically analyse risks and adverse events associated with client assessments and interventions;
12. Identify, critically appraise and apply evidence-based practice to client care;

Workload

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. On-campus: You are required to attend and participate in a one-day workshop on campus that will prepare you for your off-campus learning for the remainder of the semester.

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