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Unit of Study HLT10584 - Mobility and Personal Care Occupations (2017)

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Unit description

Examines the impact of occupational performance limitations on mobility and personal care (eating, dressing, bathing, toileting, grooming, etc.) due to physical, cognitive and psychosocial dysfunction and environmental constraints. Development of skills in the assessment, enhancement, maintenance and restoration of mobility and personal care occupations.

Unit content

Topic 1: Importance of mobility and personal care to human occupations
Topic 2: 'No lift' approaches to manual handling
Topic 3: Mobility (bed, wheelchair and walking mobility), transfers and seating
Topic 4: Personal care routines and tasks (eating, dressing, bathing, toileting, grooming and personal hygiene), including parenting children who require additional assistance with mobility and personal care routines
Topic 5: Equipment prescription, including wheelchair prescription and sources of funding

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Location Domestic International
Gold Coast Session 2 Session 2

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 understand and analyse the personal, interpersonal and cultural significance of personal care and mobility in a person's occupational performance
2 assess and analyse mobility and personal care routines and tasks
3 address key factors in developing intervention strategies to enhance mobility (bed, wheelchair and walking mobility, transfers, and seating) and personal care (eating, dressing, bathing, toileting, grooming and personal hygiene)
4 demonstrate use of safe manual handling, transfer, mobility and personal care techniques
5 prescribe experiences, equipment, task adaptations, personal assistance and environmental adaptations that address the individual needs of specific people in relation to mobility and personal care routines
6 identify, initiate and implement programs of intervention, learning and development to enable the safe and effective use of equipment prescribed (such as bath-boards, wheelchairs, hoists, seating and office furniture), task adaptations, personal support and environmental adaptations
7 evaluate and review the effectiveness of interventions in promoting occupational performance.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. understand and analyse the personal, interpersonal and cultural significance of personal care and mobility in a person's occupational performance
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA7:
  2. assess and analyse mobility and personal care routines and tasks
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA7:
  3. address key factors in developing intervention strategies to enhance mobility (bed, wheelchair and walking mobility, transfers, and seating) and personal care (eating, dressing, bathing, toileting, grooming and personal hygiene)
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA7:
  4. demonstrate use of safe manual handling, transfer, mobility and personal care techniques
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  5. prescribe experiences, equipment, task adaptations, personal assistance and environmental adaptations that address the individual needs of specific people in relation to mobility and personal care routines
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA7:
  6. identify, initiate and implement programs of intervention, learning and development to enable the safe and effective use of equipment prescribed (such as bath-boards, wheelchairs, hoists, seating and office furniture), task adaptations, personal support and environmental adaptations
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA7:
  7. evaluate and review the effectiveness of interventions in promoting occupational performance.
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA7:

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