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Unit of Study PDT20001 - Internal Clinical Placement (2016)

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Unit description

Students are introduced to the podiatry profession in a clinical setting and the associated roles and responsibilities of patient care. 

Unit content

Topic 1: Practising within the SCU student clinic

  • Rights and responsibilities of student practitioners
  • Reflective ethical practice of podiatry

Topic 2: Application of legal and regulatory frameworks pertaining to infection control

  • International and Australian standards and guidelines
  • SCU Health Clinic policies in infection control
  • Applying these standards and guidelines to practice, including:
    • Aseptic techniques in podiatric practice
    • Sterilisation protocols
    • Environmental safety
    • Medical waste protocols

Topic 3: Workplace health and safety

  • Understanding Legal and regulatory frameworks
  • Understanding SCU Health Clinic and University policy
  • Ergonomics
  • Reporting Injury
  • Duty of Care

Topic 4: Privacy and Confidentiality

  • The Privacy Act
  • Freedom of Information Act
  • SCU Health Clinic policies
  • Rights and responsibilities of the provider and patient

Topic 5: Communication and referral

  • Communicating professionally with patients
  • Obtaining informed consent
  • Communicating professionally with other health care providers

Topic 6: Medical record keeping

  • Medico-legal considerations in documentation
  • Maintaining accurate records

Topic 7: Conducting a podiatry consultation

  • Physical Examination
  • Presenting a patient to a colleague

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast Session 1 N/A

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 demonstrate reflective practice within a clinical setting
2 demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills with diverse client groups
3 apply clinical systems, procedures and medical records in podiatric practice
4 understand and practice within legal and regulatory frameworks pertaining to infection control, workplace health and safety, privacy and confidentiality, professionalism and communication, informed consent and medical record keeping.
5 demonstrate ability to perform physical examination and provide safe nail care and skin debridement techniques on healthy clients

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

  1. demonstrate reflective practice within a clinical setting
    • GA5:
  2. demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills with diverse client groups
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  3. apply clinical systems, procedures and medical records in podiatric practice
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  4. understand and practice within legal and regulatory frameworks pertaining to infection control, workplace health and safety, privacy and confidentiality, professionalism and communication, informed consent and medical record keeping.
    • GA3:
    • GA6:
  5. demonstrate ability to perform physical examination and provide safe nail care and skin debridement techniques on healthy clients
    • GA3:
    • GA4:

Prescribed learning resources

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