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Unit of Study PHTY3006 - Physiotherapy Professional Practice Placement 1 (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    24

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    This unit contains Work Integrated Learning (WIL) that requires students to meet mandatory fit to practice obligations prior to attending. Failure to comply by the fit to practice deadline will result in the cancellation of your WIL and you will not be permitted to continue in this unit. Full details are available at www.scu.edu.au/health/work-integrated-learning.

Unit description

This is one of four professional practice placement units to enable students to develop, consolidate and apply knowledge, skills and attributes in all aspects of physiotherapy practice, and within the health care system. Students develop an integrated problem-solving approach to understanding individual client problems to effectively select, plan, perform, and record evidence-informed management in diverse clinical settings, incorporating assessment, diagnosis, intervention, evaluation, progression, prevention and promotion of health and well-being. Students will work as an interprofessional practitioner, demonstrating cultural capability. Students will perform as ethical and competent physiotherapy practitioners at a new graduate level according to the Physiotherapy Practice Thresholds in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.  

Unit content

This unit does not follow the standard six module format.  The unit comprises 5 weeks of placement plus  one-week of content delivery prior to commencing placement.   

Due to the coordinated block placement allocation system, students may be completing a different area of physiotherapy practice within this unit.

The one-week content aims to prepare students for their professional practice placements and will cover the following:

  • Expectations of university, industry partners and students before, during and on completion of placement
  • Challenges during placement and strategies to manage them
  • Learning contracts – identifying own learning needs
  • Assessment during the professional practice placement; The Assessment of Physiotherapy Practice (APP) Instrument
  • Writing a professional CV; Interview preparation for work-readiness

 

Availabilities

Not currently available in 2025

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 ethical and professional decision making and behaviour appropriate to physiotherapy including adherence to relevant codes of conduct, standards of physiotherapy practice and client rights to ensure care of patients and protection of public

effectively communicate with clinical educator, and educate patients/clients and their families, carers and communities, and all other relevant stakeholders

apply evidence-based clinical reasoning in management of client presentations across clinical settings to achieve person-centred treatment goals and promote health and wellbeing

integrate reflective practice and contemporary knowledge and behaviours to meet the professional threshold standards for autonomous and collaborative inter-professional entry-level physiotherapy practice in a range of contexts across the lifespan

develop a learning contract and reflect on and address feedback and strategies provided during the professional practice placement