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Unit of Study OCCU2007 - Regional Rural Remote Fieldwork (2023)

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  • Enrolment information

    This unit contains laboratory activities and/or professional experience learning that require students to fulfil certain vaccination and compliance requirements prior to attending. As some of these can take up to 5 months to complete, you must prepare now. Failure to comply with these requirements will result in you being unable to undertake the stipulated Laboratory Activity and/or Professional Experience Learning which may result in failure of the unit. Full details are available at www.scu.edu.au/healthplacements. Students will likely have to travel away from their local area and placements are located anywhere in Australia. Students are required to support themselves financially (including accommodation, travel and living expenses) during placements.

Unit description

Provides a 6-week (240 hour) practice education in a regional, rural or remote setting under the supervision of one or more occupational therapy clinicians. Students undertake learning experiences to develop professional behaviours and competencies, and integrate and apply theory and skills learned in previous units. Reflective practice and the development of clinical reasoning are key components of this unit.

Unit content

For the Regional, Rural and Remote Fieldwork, 3 x 2 hour preparatory workshops are conducted throughout the session, prior to placement. The workshop covers the following topics in the context of regional, rural and remote setting:

  • Boundaries
  • Assessment requirements
  • Professional portfolio
  • Critical reflective journal
  • Clinical reasoning
  • Initiative
  • Self-awareness
  • Self-resilience
  • Stress management
  • Time management
  • Management of caseload
  • Learning styles
  • Feedback
  • Cognitive overload

For this unit students have specific assessment tasks that they have to complete in order to pass the unit of study e.g. critical reflections and professional portfolio. The students are assessed by the supervisor during their practice education using the SPEF-R (Student Practice Evaluation Form – Revised) and they are specifically assessed on the below domains:

  • Professional behaviour
  • Self-management skills
  • Co-worker communication
  • Communication skills
  • Documentation
  • Information gathering
  • Service provision
  • Service evaluation

Availabilities

Not currently available in 2023

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:

demonstrate a professional and ethical approach to practice.

demonstrate an emerging level of competence and performance in identified core areas of Occupational Therapy practice as specified in the Australian Occupational Therapy Competency Standards (2018)

demonstrate the development of professional problem solving and clinical reasoning skills relevant to occupational therapy service delivery

create and maintain appropriate client records, reports and other required documentation.

demonstrate a high level of verbal communication skills with clients, families, staff and relevant others with increasing levels of independence.

demonstrate and practice a high level of initiative and self-direction

reflect on practice education experiences demonstrating a deep level of understanding