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Unit of Study PDT73005 - Pedorthics Clinical Placement I (2019)

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  • Enrolment information

    Please be advised that this unit includes professional experience learning which has pre-placement provisions and associated placement expenses as detailed on the School of Health and Human Sciences Professional Experience page. Failure to comply with these pre-placement requirements will result in you being unable to undertake the stipulated Professional Experience Learning.

Unit description

Provides students with a seven week full-time supervised clinical experience in the general provision of pedorthic services to the general public. Students learn about professional issues such as ethical behaviour, communication, boundaries and referral. Within this supervised environment the student clinician will be responsible for case planning and management.

Unit content

While on placement it is expected that students will participate and gain skills in the following areas:

Clinical

  • To take a comprehensive health history from a patient
  • To provide biomechanical assessments (sports, neurological and muscular impairment, skeletal deformities)
  • To review medical reports, including radiology results
  • To provide clinical assessments (range of motion checks, skin condition, muscular ability, hands-on manual examination) and treatment plan for the lower limb
  • To take a three-dimensional foot and ankle model (casting and scanning) for low risk clients
  • To gain skills in the manufacture and/or modification of pedorthic appliances
  • To critically review cases by peer and supervisor interaction
  • To provide client treatment, and review progress and make appropriate adjustments to the treatment
  • Overall, to demonstrate a foundational level of clinical skills

Professional

  • To safely determine the limitations of pedorthic practice
  • To demonstrate professional competence, attitudes and standards appropriate for practice
  • To competently determine the appropriate point for referral to other health care professionals
  • To demonstrate appropriate interpersonal skills, workplace professionalism and teamwork
  • To outline and apply medico-legal and ethical principles pertaining to clinical practice
  • To observe workplace health and safety regulations and infection control

Communication

  • To competently communicate by written and oral means with clients, peers, staff and other health care professionals
  • To choose language and terminology appropriate to the situation

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast Session 1 Session 1

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 developing skills required to work as a safe, competent pedorthic practitioner
2 demonstrate case management skills - assessment, planning, therapeutic intervention and evaluation
3 provide person centred pedorthic advice and appliances at a beginning level
4 discuss professional boundaries of practice, including ethics
5 communicate competently by written and oral means with clients, peers, staff and other health care professionals

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

  1. demonstrate developing skills required to work as a safe, competent pedorthic practitioner
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
  2. demonstrate case management skills - assessment, planning, therapeutic intervention and evaluation
    • GA1:
  3. provide person centred pedorthic advice and appliances at a beginning level
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
  4. discuss professional boundaries of practice, including ethics
    • GA3:
  5. communicate competently by written and oral means with clients, peers, staff and other health care professionals
    • GA6:

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