Program Overview

Program Overview

The Transition to Physiotherapy Clinical Practice subject is a capstone course designed for students in the Pass stream, aiming to prepare them for the transition from student to graduate entry health professional. This subject focuses on legal, ethical, and culturally-responsive professional practice, critical thinking and reflection skills, and creating collaborative healthcare partnerships.

Subject Information

Grading System

The grading system for this subject is HD/FL.

Duration

The subject is completed in one session.

School

The subject is offered by the School of Community Health.

Enrolment Restrictions

This subject is restricted to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Physiotherapy.

Prerequisites

The prerequisite for this subject is PHS401.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

• Reflect critically on professional practice and engage in critical questioning of themselves and others
• Identify and prioritise professional learning needs, and implement realistic goals and strategies to encourage ongoing professional growth
• Evaluate their own health and resilience, and develop strategies for maintaining these within changing work environments
• Promote positive workplace culture and practices through strategic thinking, advocacy, critical reflection, innovation, and initiative
• Demonstrate adaptive, respectful, and responsive communication to reflect the purpose, context, culture, literacy, ethical, legal, and/or professional requirements of the task or interaction
• Build effective interprofessional partnerships through proactive monitoring of group processes, and timely and effective responses to identified barriers
• Contribute effectively to discipline-specific knowledge, and participate in collective reasoning and shared decision-making which enhances client healthcare
• Demonstrate appropriate decision-making after having considered all relevant legal, professional, ethical standards, and codes of physiotherapy practice

Syllabus

This subject will cover the following topics:

• Transition from student to health professional, including personal & professional sustainability
• Critical reflection on professional practice
• Critical evaluation of own performance
• Self-managing professional growth
• Peer evaluation
• Developing collaborative healthcare partnerships to enable effective interprofessional practice: conflict resolution; team functioning; leadership; role clarification; communication
• Palliative care
• Preparing to enter the workforce - job applications/interviews/workforce culture/legal requirements of professional practice (i.e., registration/mandatory reporting/complaints)

Workplace Learning

This subject contains a 25-day compulsory workplace learning component, which is a capstone clinical placement. Students will be expected to attain the level of graduate entry practice and will be assessed against the Australian Physiotherapy Standards.

Special Resources

Students are required to attend a full-time clinical placement. Associated accommodation and transport costs are the responsibility of the individual student.