Program Overview

Program Overview

Introduction to PHS404 Transition to Physiotherapy Clinical Practice (Honours)

Transition to Physiotherapy Clinical Practice (Honours) is a capstone subject for the Honours stream, designed to prepare students 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, creating collaborative health care partnerships, professional transition, development, and sustainability, as well as leadership in health care practice.

Subject Details

Availability

• Session 2 (60)
• On Campus: Albury-Wodonga Campus, Orange Campus
• Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: PHS404. Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.

Subject Information

Grading System

• HD/FL

Duration

• One session

School

• School of Community Health

Enrolment Restrictions

• This subject is restricted to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours).

Prerequisites

• PHS401

Learning Outcomes

Upon Successful Completion

• Be able to identify and prioritise professional learning needs, and implement realistic goals and strategies to encourage ongoing professional growth
• Be able to demonstrate adaptive, respectful, and responsive communication to reflect the purpose, context, culture, literacy, ethical, legal, and/or professional requirements of the task or interaction
• Be able to build effective interprofessional partnerships through proactive monitoring of group processes, and timely and effective responses to identified barriers
• Be able to contribute effectively to discipline-specific knowledge, and participate in collective reasoning and shared decision-making which enhances client health care
• Be able to demonstrate appropriate decision-making after having considered all relevant legal, professional, ethical standards, and codes of physiotherapy practice

Syllabus

Topics Covered

• Transition from student to health professional, including personal & professional sustainability
• Critical reflection on professional practice
• Critical evaluation of own performance
• Self-management of professional growth
• Peer evaluation
• Developing collaborative health care 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., professional registration/mandatory reporting/complaints)

Workplace Learning

Compulsory Component

• This subject contains a 25-day Compulsory Workplace Learning component, which is a capstone clinical placement where students will be expected to attain the level of graduate entry practice and will be assessed against the Australian Physiotherapy Standards.

Special Resources

Requirements

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