Unit HEASP6023 - Speech Pathology Clinical Practice 2

Unit description

This unit is the second of three professional experience practice units in the Master of Speech Pathology course which develops and contextualises the Professional Standards for Speech Pathologists including professional conduct, reflective practice, life-long learning and practice skills. This unit also provides students with an opportunity to develop, contextualise and assimilate prior learning to demonstrate competency across the lifespan. It focuses on working with clients across the lifespan to assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate person, family and community-centred, evidence-based, culturally safe and responsive services and interventions in professional practice. Specifically, students will explore increasingly complex case scenarios across the lifespan. Students will progress towards being more independent in their intermediate level of professional practice knowledge and its application, as well as further developing their identity and competence as a Speech Pathologist across the practice areas of communication and swallowing. Counselling and interviewing skills will be consolidated to equip students for active and sensitive engagement with all stakeholders. Students will continue to build their professional portfolio as a basis for ongoing reflection and demonstration of evidence against the Professional Standards for Speech Pathologists and will progress their reflective skills to further transform their clinical identity and professional practice. Students will participate in supervised practice education based placement and placement activities at an intermediate level competency for approximately and not less than 20 days, with flexible support from the university.

Unit content

Professional Standards for Speech Pathologist in Australia (2020), Speech Pathology Guidelines for Reporting of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Curriculum Development and Inclusions (2018), FedUni STRETCH Reconciliation Action Plan (2019-2022), National Quality and Safeguarding Framework (NQSF, 2018), National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards (2017-2019) and National Aged Care Quality Standards (2019) have substantially informed the syllabus/content of this unit. Topics may include: 1. 1. Professional Conduct • Professional communication skills (extended) • Clinical reasoning, professionalism and lifelong learning across the adult range of practice areas • Scope of practice – clarifying the role • Ethical issues -Code of Ethics • National Safety and Quality Standards of Health Services • Aged Care Quality Standards • ICF framework • Disadvantaged and vulnerable clients including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people healthcare 2. 2. The Speech Pathologist reflective practice and life-long learning • Introduction to adult service settings and service models • Transferability of skills across lifespan focussing on adult professional practice environments • Application of the ICF to facilitate activity, participation, and quality of life across lifespan range of practice areas • Introduction to co-morbidity within the adult range of practice areas • Consideration of client, clinician, and contextual factors in planning and implementing evidence based, culturally appropriate adult client management. 3. 3. Speech Pathology Practice • Assess, interpret, diagnose client communication and swallowing pathologies • Plan, implement and evaluate person-centred, culturally responsive care, interventions and services across the lifespan (adults) • Requirements of intermediate level speech pathology practice • Reflective practice and COMPASS • Using the COMPASS behavioural descriptors to guide self-ratings • Personal goal setting using the COMPASS behavioural descriptors. 4. 4. Working collaboratively and in partnership with clients: families and communities • Person-centered partnerships • Relationships • Attachment • Transference and countertransference • Reflective functioning • Behavioural / therapy contracts • Advocating for the adult client • Advocating for the profession within adult service settings • Inter-professional practice - Triangulation of perspectives (client, clinician, other). 5. 5. Micro-skills of counselling and interviewing • Attending behaviours e.g.: active listening, positive regard, authenticity • Questioning • Observational skills • Paraphrasing • Summarising • Reflection of feeling • Challenging • Goal selection / focusing • Feedback.

Institute / school:

Institute of Health and Wellbeing

Discipline:

Speech Pathology

Study level:

Postgraduate - Coursework

Credit points:

EFTSL:

0.125

Field of education:

Offering:

Grade scheme:

Ungraded (e.g. S-Satisfactory, UN-Unsatisfactory)

Placement component:

Yes

Placement hours:

150

Fee information:

Prerequisite

must have completed all of "<a href="/ords/r/curriculum/catalogue/course?p6_code=EDMST6113" target="_blank">EDMST6113</a>" / "<a href="/ords/r/curriculum/catalogue/course?p6_code=HEASP5013" target="_blank">HEASP5013</a>" / "<a href="/ords/r/curriculum/catalogue/course?p6_code=HEASP5022" target="_blank">HEASP5022</a>" / "<a href="/ords/r/curriculum/catalogue/course?p6_code=HEASP5024" target="_blank">HEASP5024</a>"

Corequisite

Exclusion

Learning outcomes

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S2
S3
S4
A1
A2
A3
A4

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4

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FedTASK

Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FedTASKs (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key, transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and co-operative learning opportunities.

FedTASK	Description of FedTASK outcome
	Students at this level will demonstrate an advanced ability in a range of contexts to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display high level skills in-person and/or online in: • Using and demonstrating a high level of verbal and non-verbal communication • Demonstrating a mastery of listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Demonstrating and showing empathy for others • High order skills in negotiating and conflict resolution skills • Demonstrating mastery of working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams
	Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery in professional skills and behaviours in leading others. • Creating and sustaining a collegial environment • Demonstrating a high level of self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect and justify decisions • Inspiring and initiating opportunities to lead others • Making informed professional decisions • Demonstrating initiative in new professional situations
	Students at this level will demonstrate high level skills in working in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically to generate and consider complex ideas and concepts at an abstract level • Analysing complex and abstract ideas, concepts and information • Communicate alternative perspectives to justify complex ideas • Demonstrate a mastery of challenging conventional thinking to clarify complex concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving to new situations for further learning
	Students at this level will demonstrate the ability to work competently across a wide range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Mastering, exploring, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information professionally • Collating, managing complex data, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding professionally to messages in a range of professional digital media • Contributing competently and professionally to digital teams and working groups • Participating at a high level in digital learning opportunities
	Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery of considering and assessing the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting professional ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Demonstrate informed judgment making that considers the impact of devising complex solutions in ambiguous global economic environmental and societal contexts • Professionally committing to the promulgation of social responsibility • Demonstrate the ability to evaluate ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Communicating lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to the diverse professional others • Generating, leading and implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life

Institute / school:

Institute of Health and Wellbeing

Discipline:

Speech Pathology

Study level:

Postgraduate - Coursework

Credit points:

EFTSL:

0.125

Field of education:

Offering:

Grade scheme:

Ungraded (e.g. S-Satisfactory, UN-Unsatisfactory)

Placement component:

Yes

Placement hours:

150

Fee information:

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Internal reference: HEASP6023 - U4.0

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