RTP5002 · Advanced practice in allied health

Overview

This elective unit is designed to meet your needs as a practitioner seeking to advance your knowledge and professional capability. The development of advanced professional capabilities will enable you to lead the design, implementation and evaluation of advanced practice programs in your discipline, in line with contemporary legal and ethical health care principles. You will study theory related to professional practice and service delivery. A professional practice framework for work-integrated learning will scaffold the development of advanced capability. You will use your current workplace experience to develop and be assessed on a range of advanced professional capabilities. Up to three weeks of the work-integrated learning period can be undertaken in a placement which is external to your current workplace and that has been approved by your specialisation lead as a Monash University approved service provider.

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. Appraise the principles of leadership and mentorship and apply these in your role as an advanced practitioner
2. Reflect on your role as an advanced practitioner with respect to local and international practices and standards
3. Articulate ethical and medico-legal issues associated with your role as an advanced practitioner, and analyse how these relate to service delivery
4. Interpret the principles of clinical governance and apply these to the context of advanced practice
5. Evaluate and apply interprofessional practice, reflecting on its impact on patient outcomes
6. Apply change implementation principles in your advanced practice role
7. Create practice-based solutions to clinical problems through evidence-based practice.
8. Discriminate between the capabilities of standard and advanced practice and communicate these in the context of your professional field
9. Formulate a sustainable action plan for your advanced practice role development
10. Evaluate how professionalism, communication and collaboration impact the transition to advanced practice roles

Workload

Compulsory work-integrated learning: Equivalent to 4 hours a week for between 24- 35 weeks (depending on the area of advanced practice) for professional skill development and portfolio work-integrated learning activities in the practitioner’s current workplace. This may include a professional placement of a maximum of 3 weeks (full time equivalent) at Monash University approved service provider, for the specialisation (negotiated by the Monash University Specialisation Lead and the Practitioner), in the final six months of the unit. Interacting with course materials and completion of assessments: Moodle asynchronous online learning activities, synchronous support sessions and completing assessment tasks equivalent to 4 hours a week for 35 weeks.

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