HSO304 - Professional Practice Education A
Unit details
| Year: | 2024 unit information |
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| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Waterfront (Geelong) |
| Credit point(s): | 2 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.250 |
| Unit Chair: | Emma Clark |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in H355 |
| Prerequisite: | Students must pass HSO302 and HSO307, and one of the following units: HSO305 or HXJ305. |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 300 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 8 weeks of professional experience (placement) including 1 week orientation on-campus at Deakin University. Total approximately 320 hours. |
Note:Department of Human Services policy - Police Record Check and Working With Children Check In accordance with Department of Human Services policy, all students are required to undertake a National Police Record Check prior to clinical placements in each calendar year of their course. In accordance with the Department of Justice 2007, Working with Children Act 2005, amended 2017, all students are required to undertake a Working with Children Check at the commencement of their course. Students who fail to obtain a Police Record Check and a Working with Children Check prior to the commencement of clinical placement will not be able to undertake clinical placement and this will impede progress in the course. Students may also be required to declare their immunisation status to satisfy the requirements of health organisations where they will be undertaking their clinical learning experience. A health organisation may refuse to accept a student for placement if the student’s immunisation status is not satisfactory to the health organisation. | |
Content
This practicum unit is aimed at students developing competence as beginning practitioners in occupational therapy. It builds on and extends competency development from fieldwork, enabling students to: apply occupational therapy reasoning processes to a range of practice situations; attain particular skills according to OT Australia professional competency requirements; discuss management issues related to practice, and demonstrate effective communication skills. It will take place in a variety of agencies/organisations within the health and related areas. As appropriate, fieldwork will be supported by additional learning experiences to assist students develop competencies, management skills and an appreciation of the need for practice to be based on evidence that can be cited and analysed.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
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| ULO1 | Support, develop, evaluate, plan, implement and /or participate in health promotion projects to support participants in community based agencies. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Develop self –directed learning skills including: independent work, taking initiative, decision making, professional self-management and clinical reasoning, collaboratively with a student peer. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving GLO6: Self-management GLO7: Teamwork |
| ULO3 | Develop and implement an occupational therapy intervention plan for a school-aged child which demonstrates evidence of clinical reasoning, including accurate assessment, SMART goals setting and evidence informed intervention plan. (AT1). | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO4 | Prepare and complete an audio-visual presentation reflecting on your community placement and the skills required and demonstrated in order to achieve your individualised learning plan goals. (AT2). | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO5 | Foster successful and sustainable partnerships with local agencies, whilst advocating the diverse role of Occupational Therapy. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO6 | Integrate knowledge and skills (generic and discipline-related) and demonstrate occupational therapy clinical competencies (from the SPEF-R) regarding: Professional Practice; Self Management Skills; Communication Skills; Documentation; and Assessment/Information Gathering, Service Provision and Service Evaluation, including a completed and signed timesheet (AT3 = hurdle requirements). | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
Assessment
| Assessment description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment 1: School report | 2000 words | 50% |
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| Assessment 2: Video presentation | 8 minutes | 50% |
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| Assessment 3: Hurdle requirement | Passing of Fieldwork component and meeting of attendance requirements | Pass/Fail |
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Failure of a fieldwork component in the Bachelor of Occupational Therapy will normally lead to failure of the unit and may lead to exclusion from the course.
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Hurdle requirement
- Passing of Fieldwork component and meeting of attendance requirements
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: HSO304 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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