Leader: Pamela Kirke

Offered

Peninsula Second semester 2008 (Day)

Synopsis

The unit comprises 10 weeks of fieldwork placement followed by on campus debriefing tutorials. The unit provides students with the opportunity to develop, integrate and enhance their practice skills to reach an entry level of competence in occupational therapy prior to graduation. By the end of the fieldwork placement students will be managing a caseload of clients independently. A learning contract developed in OCC4081 will be used to guide fieldwork learning. A portfolio assessment will be used to encourage reflection, a self-directed approach to learning and to provide a record of professional competencies as these are developing.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this unit students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate professional attitudes and behaviours at the level expected of a new graduate
2. Demonstrate effective time and workload management strategies
3. Document personal and professional learning using a portfolio in preparation for professional accreditation
4. Implement strategies to effectively meet own learning needs using a learning contract.
5. Demonstrate autonomous and competent application of all stages of the occupational therapy process to the level expected of a new graduate in occupational therapy
6. Design and implement strategies for critical self reflection, evaluation and improvement of own professional practice
7. Develop strategies to provide effective occupational therapy service considering the broad political, legal and industrial issues in the workplace, profession and client group
8. Plan, implement and evaluate an occupational therapy service
9. Critique an organization's key performance indicators and service delivery directions
10. Devise strategies to overcome service delivery constraints to provide effective occupational therapy intervention for clients in a fieldwork agency
11. Demonstrate effective collaboration with other health professionals and health service providers.
12. Select and critique occupational therapy interventions on the basis of best available evidence.

Assessment

Satisfactory completion of fieldwork placement as assessed through the Student Placement Evaluation Form (SPEF) (ungraded)
45 minute Oral Portfolio assessment: 50% +Written portfolio assessment: 50%
80% attendance at tutorials. All hurdle requirements must be completed to pass this subject. Students who fail to meet a hurdle requirement will be offered alternative learning activity. Students who fail the fieldwork component of the unit will be required to repeat the unit. A maximum of one repeat placement will be provided.

Prerequisites

OCC4071 or OCC4091 and OCC4081

Co-requisites

OCC4092

Prohibitions

Available only to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Occupational Therapy.