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<p>Physiotherapists provide care for people with complex healthcare needs. In this unit, you will consolidate clinical reasoning skills, developed during your coursework and clinical placement experience and expand your abilities to analyse situations in which people have complex needs. This unit will incorporate problem-based learning to develop skills of analysis and integration of care through complex healthcare systems. Upon completion of this unit, you are expected to have the critical thinking capabilities you will require upon graduation as a qualified physiotherapist and the reflective and reflexive capabilities to engage in lifelong learning to grow in the ever-evolving healthcare industry.</p>
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<p>Topics may include advanced scope of practice presentations and topics aimed at extending students' clinical reasoning and practice capabilities beyond entry-level competency, preparing them for emerging, specialised, or expanded practice contexts within physiotherapy.</p>
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<p>Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment.</p>
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Unit description
<p>Physiotherapists provide care for people with complex healthcare needs. In this unit, you will consolidate clinical reasoning skills, developed during your coursework and clinical placement experience and expand your abilities to analyse situations in which people have complex needs. This unit will incorporate problem-based learning to develop skills of analysis and integration of care through complex healthcare systems. Upon completion of this unit, you are expected to have the critical thinking capabilities you will require upon graduation as a qualified physiotherapist and the reflective and reflexive capabilities to engage in lifelong learning to grow in the ever-evolving healthcare industry.</p>
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<p>Topics may include advanced scope of practice presentations and topics aimed at extending students' clinical reasoning and practice capabilities beyond entry-level competency, preparing them for emerging, specialised, or expanded practice contexts within physiotherapy.</p>
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Health and Wellbeing
Discipline:
Physiotherapy
Study level:
Undergraduate
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
061701 - Physiotherapy
Offering:
<p><strong>Semester 2</strong><p>Gippsland - Churchill (On Campus)</p></p>
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
No
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/nhpps4004">View unit fees</a>
Requisites
Prerequisite
<p>must have completed 1 of "<a href="/ords/r/curriculum/catalogue/course?p6_code=NHPPS4001" target="_blank">NHPPS4001</a>" / "<a href="/ords/r/curriculum/catalogue/course?p6_code=NHPPS4101" target="_blank">NHPPS4101</a>"</p>
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None
Exclusion
None
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
<p>On successful completion of this unit, students are expected to gain the following [K]nowledge, [S]kills and [A]pplication of knowledge & skills</p>
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<p>Examine healthcare presentations with complex needs to justify clinical reasoning and management decisions.</p>
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<p>Analyse complex care needs to develop patient-centred goals of care and coordinate care across the healthcare team.</p>
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<p>Demonstrate entry-to-practice standard communication skills, including judgement about what and how to disclose under clinical uncertainty, to facilitate holistic, system-wide care through effective handover and referral practices.</p>
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<p>Critique physiotherapy management plans against evidence-based practice and clinical experience.</p>
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<p>Critically reflect on personal strengths, limitations, and learning needs to construct a professional development plan supporting the transition to entry-level practice.</p>
Assessment
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<p>Recorded presentation applying clinical reasoning </p>
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<p>20-30%</p>
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<p>Oral group presentation on an advanced case study </p>
<p>Group presentation</p>
<p>30-50%</p>
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<p>Professional development plan</p>
<p>Written Assignment</p>
<p>20-30%</p>
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Supplementary assessment available:
Yes
Supplementary assessment information:
<p>Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment.</p>
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FedTASK 1: Interpersonal
The ability to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups.
<p> </p><p>Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context</p>
FedTASK 2: Leadership
The ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others.
<p>Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context</p>
FedTASK 3: Critical Thinking and Creativity
The ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using imagination to create new ideas.
<p> </p><p>Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context</p>
FedTASK 4: Digital Literacy
The ability to work fluently across a range of tools and applications to achieve a range of skills.
FedTASK 5: Sustainable and Ethical Mindset
The ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions.
<p>Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context</p>
FedTASK
<p>Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FedTASKs (<strong>T</strong>ransferable <strong>A</strong>ttributes <strong>S</strong>kills and <strong>K</strong>nowledge) 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.</p>
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Health and Wellbeing
Discipline:
Physiotherapy
Study level:
Undergraduate
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
061701 - Physiotherapy
Offering:
<p><strong>Semester 2</strong><p>Gippsland - Churchill (On Campus)</p></p>
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
No
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/nhpps4004">View unit fees</a>
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