POD309 Advanced Clinical Podiatric Practice For Honours (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Allied Health (ALHEA)
Duration: One sessions
Abstract:
This subject develops skills and knowledge in podiatric clinical practice with a focus on case management of a range of problems from a holistic perspective. Students will assess, diagnose, and manage a range of clients. Students are expected to present clinical cases and explain the underlying pathophysiology and their clinical reasoning with respect to assessment, diagnosis, and management. Students will also assess and interpret diagnostic imaging techniques and undertake safe and competent clinical practice. While the focus will be on biomechanical, musculoskeletal, and cutaneous pathology, students will be expected to manage a wide range of clients and to integrate the knowledge gained from previous and concurrent subjects, particularly the medicine and pharmacology subjects, into their clinical practice.
Throughout this subject, students will be expected to be developing their professional skills including practice management, communication skills, and generic health professional skills.
Students will develop and extend their skills and knowledge of the prescription, manufacture, and modification of lower extremity orthotic devices. Student learning will be facilitated through participation in clinical sessions, tutorials, and online interactive activities.
As a significant component of this subject, students will complete a minimum of 96 hours in the Allied Health Clinic and a minimum of 35 hours on external placement. Initially, students will work under direct supervision from clinical educators, but towards the end of the subject their practice will be negotiated.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 1 | |
|---|---|
| Internal | Albury-Wodonga |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: POD309
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Prerequisite(s):
BMS234 and (BMS263 or BMS225 ) and (BMS264 or BMS236 ) and POD213
Enrolment restrictions:
Bachelor of Podiatry (Honours)
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
Be able to:
- appropriately prescribe, fabricate, and modify a range of ortho-mechanical devices
- demonstrate the ability to work independently and in a time-efficent manner, within a defined scope of practice with indirect supervision and subsequent review by a clinical educator
- demonstrate safe working practices in the clinical setting with due consideration of the practitioner, clients, and other personnel
- utilise collaborative and leadership skills to function effectively as part of a health care team
- consistently demonstrate practice management skills that contribute to the efficient management of a health clinic
- demonstrate an ability to utilise principles of reflective practice to address self-learning needs
- efficiently and safely conduct assessment, propose diagnoses, and develop and implement comprehensive and holistic management plans in clients, with cutaneous pathology, with indirect supervision and subsequent review by a clinical educator and be able to justify the underlying clinical reasoning
- demonstrate a defined skill set with respect to the assessment and management of biomechanical and musculoskeletal pathology
- conduct client assessment, interpret the local and systemic findings relating to biomechanical, musculoskeletal, vascular, and neurological pathology, justify the relevance of those findings in the specific context of individual clients and appropriately verbally report and document those findings
- propose and justify appropriate diagnosis or differential diagnosis based on assessment findings
- propose, with comprehensive justification, a holistic management plan, including likely outcomes, that has been modified to acknowledge client-specific systemic and local factors for clients with biomechanical, musculoskeletal, vascular, and neurological pathology with direct negotiation between clinical educator and client
- implement a given management plan , appropriately modifying specified interventions, as required, subsequent to discussion with a clinical educator
- demonstrate an ability to use diagnostic imaging techniques in the management and treatment of clients
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
The student is transitioning from a limited scope of practice towards the diagnosis and management of a wider range of pathology. Students will continue to develop an ethos of critical thinking, safe and appropriate practice, and taking responsibility for case management. Students will be active participants in a clinical setting, with a focus on assessment, diagnosis, and management of clients. Students will develop skills in interpretation of local and systemic factors from a holistic perspective. The skills and knowledge acquired in previous and concurrent theoretical studies, including diagnostic and therapeutic sciences, will be explored and applied in clinical practice. Students should be moving towards managing clients, with reducing dependence on the clinical educator. As such the syllabus will alter according to the needs of students and the clients and the pathological entities that are encountered in the clinical setting.
The following topics will be further explored in this subject:
- Infection control procedures
- Clinical problem solving
- Principles of case management
- Shoewear fitting/advice/evaluation
- Systemic conditions and impact on client's health and management issues
- Client education
- Referral of clients
- Case conferencing
- Effective and appropriate communication and record keeping strategies and procedures, including the selection of appropriate language and communication strategies
- Ethical and medico-legal issues in podiatric practice
- Students will practice the prescription, fabrication, modification, and dispensing of orthotics and adjunctive devices as required
- Case management of commonly encountered pathologies
- X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrsound, and other relevant diagnostic techniques
Workplace Learning
This subject contains a Compulsory Workplace Learning component of 18 days duration.
Direct clinical work with patients in the Allied Health Clinic or Community Engagement and Wellness Clinic on Albury Campus under direct supervision from clinical educators.
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.