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PHS400 Transition to Physiotherapy Practice (8)

Abstract

This subject is a capstone subject that functions to prepare students for the transition from being a student to being a qualified health professional. Specific focus will be on issues of making judgements, handling uncertainty in decision making, ethical and cultural dilemmas, adaptive and flexible practice and translating physiotherapy professional skills to enable others to achieve positive health outcomes for communities. This subject will use cases from students' previous clinical experiences to address these topics. Students will be extended to consider concepts of case management, when and how to transfer their knowledge to assistants, carers and other members of the team, community rehabilitation, forming effective collaborative relationships and physiotherapy in international practice. Within this subject a module will be completed with students from other Allied Health disciplines.This subject involves a capstone clinical placement where students will be expected to attain levels of practice expected of a new graduate as consistent with contemporary physiotherapy clinical practice. Students enrolling in this subject will be assumed to have a high level of knowledge and a broad range of clinical experiences in physiotherapy practice.

+ Subject Availability Modes and Location

Session 2
InternalAlbury-Wodonga Campus
InternalOrange Campus
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: PHS400
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.

Subject information

Duration Grading System School:
One sessionHD/FLSchool of Community Health

Enrolment restrictions

This subject is restricted to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Physiotherapy and Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours).
Prerequisite(s)
PHS401

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
  • be able to perform skills necessary to working effectively in an interprofessional team;
  • be able to evaluate and document their own performance and set goals for further development as a professional;
  • be able to adapt clinical and professional aspects of practice to unfamiliar and uncertain settings with variable resource levels;
  • be able to distinguish aspects of physiotherapy practice and personal values that are culturally bound and adapt practice in a culturally sensitive manner;
  • be able to effectively transfer their knowledge to assistants, carers and other members of the team;
  • be able to perform at the level expected of a new graduate in a clinical setting.

Syllabus

The subject will cover the following topics:
-case management
-working with physiotherapy assistants and carers
-community rehabilitation
- palliative care
-handling complaints
-ensuring quality care
-advanced reflective practice and clinical reasoning
-formal report writing
-international practice
-disability in developing countries
-characteristics of new graduate physiotherapy practice
-using research to change practice
- interview skills

Work Place Learning

This subject contains a Compulsory Workplace Learning component of 25 days duration. The workplace learning is a capstone clinical placement where students will be expected to attain levels of practice expected of a new graduate as consistent with contemporary physiotherapy clinical practice. Clinical placements require full time attendance for a period of five weeks at workplace sites away from the university campus. Students may incur expenses in association with attending clinical placements. Students should expect to pay for accommodation
at the placement site, travel to and from the placement site and food and living expenses. You may
also be unable to maintain part time employment during placement.

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The information contained in the 2015 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 01 October 2015. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.