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Unit of Study OCCU1002 - Personal Care Occupations (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

This unit examines occupations of a person and the impact of occupational performance limitations on activities of daily living through activity analysis. Students will explore the personal and environmental factors that affect occupational performance and develop skills in the assessment, enhancement, maintenance and restoration of occupations. There will be an introduction to assistive technology to support occupational performance.  

Unit content

  1. Preparing to work with individuals
  2. Occupational therapy process and professional reasoning
  3. Analysing and supporting dressing occupations
  4. Analysing and supporting bathing and grooming occupations
  5. Analysing and supporting toileting and hygiene occupations
  6. Applying evaluation and intervention plans for individuals

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
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Gold Coast
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Learning outcomes

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:

analyse occupations, activities and tasks for an individual

analyse person and environmental factors that impact occupational performance

safely demonstrate use of adaptive equipment to support occupational performance

identify, design and justify intervention strategies to enhance occupational performance in low complexity scenarios

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