Course overview
Using various healthcare settings and scenarios (including the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, critical care, rehabilitation, the first contact practitioner and the compensable patient), this course will explore issues of complexity associated with persons with healthcare needs, caseloads, teams, services and/or wider organisations. Students will extend their knowledge and skills related to the role of the physiotherapist as an independent practitioner and member of the wider healthcare team. You will have ongoing opportunities to apply the clinical reasoning model that draws on the World Health Organisation (WHO) International Classification of Functioning framework, a biopsychosocial approach to health care and evidence-based practice. Self-learning guides and online resources will complement workshops, practical classes and tutorials that are scheduled in block mode.
Course learning outcomes
- Safely and effectively perform case specific assessments for people with complex health care needs and from diverse backgrounds.
- Analyse and interpret assessment findings of people with complex heath care needs to produce a prioritised problem list.
- Develop and justify interdisciplinary and evidenced based management plans that can be safely applied to people with complex health care needs, and translate this evidence into practice.
- Apply clinical reasoning to safely and effectively perform physiotherapy assessment and treatment techniques for people with complex healthcare needs and from diverse backgrounds.
- Safely and effectively prioritise patient caseloads of people with complex health care needs.
- Research and apply best-practice physiotherapy knowledge and skills to a range of people and settings.
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 56642
Section LE01
Size 40
Available 0
Class number 56641
Section LE02
Size 40
Available 2
Class number 52680
Section PR01
Size 20
Available 0
Class number 52679
Section PR02
Size 20
Available 0
Class number 52682
Section PR03
Size 20
Available 2
Class number 52681
Section PR04
Size 20
Available 0
Class number 52678
Section WS01
Size 20
Available 0
Class number 51507
Section WS02
Size 20
Available 0
Class number 51506
Section WS03
Size 20
Available 2
Class number 51505
Section WS04
Size 20
Available 0
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