Undergraduate - UnitPTY3051 - Physiotherapy 5

===THEME 1: Personal and Professional Development===

• modify communication in response to individual people, clients and families;
• integrate counselling to achieve person centred physiotherapy practice;
• identify personal biases that impact on care delivery, develop strategies for ethical practice;
• explain aims of palliative care;
• detail the role of the physiotherapist in women's health; ergonomics, aquatic physiotherapy, and cancer management, continence management and sports physiotherapy; + identify factors that impact on end of life issues;
• recognise the role of other members of the health care team working in palliative care, mental health, oncology, continence and amputee management;
• explain the importance of good written and verbal communication in achieving continuity of care.
• list organizational factors that impact on clinical practice

===THEME 2: Population, Society and Health===

• identify how ethnicity and culture influence health, healthcare and illness;
• recognise symptoms of torture and abuse in people from places of political unrest; + apply ergonomic principles to prevent injury and maintain health;
• review key components of the Australian health care system;
• describe frameworks of treatment developed by third party insurers;
• describe processes for payment and entitlements for people injured in a car or work accident.
• describe the impact of health care economics on health care delivery

===THEME 3: Fundamental Knowledge in Health Science===

• describe the structure and function of the pelvis and its contents;
• discuss the kinesiology of the pelvic girdle;
• describe the physiology of the endocrine, renal and reproductive systems;
• describe the physiological changes that occur during pregnancy, post partum and the menopause;
• review the pharmacological management of pain, cancer, gastrointestinal, endocrine, renal and mental health conditions and the pharmacology of substance abuse and poisoning;
• outline the use of complementary therapies and their research support;
• review psychological frameworks of cognitive, personality and emotional disturbances, suicide and depression;
• explain ergonomics and aquatic physiotherapy and develop skills in these areas;
• discuss the management of bladder and bowel health difficulties for people across the life span;
• describe mental health conditions and their impact upon patient management;
• explore the management of cancer for people of all ages and relevant therapeutic, surgical treatment options and physiotherapy management;
• analyse relevant management of people following upper and lower limb amputation, the biomechanics of gait and selection and use of prostheses;
• outline issues related to progressive illness and relevant management;
• review pain related to childbirth, amputation and chronic pain;
• describe risk minimization and its influence on physiotherapy practice
• adapt physiotherapy skills to acute care management in the emergency department;
• review the use of immobilisation in injury healing;
• extend skills in the assessment and management of vertebral conditions;
• describe causes and presentation of Intellectual impairment and relevant assessment tools, services and programs for people with an intellectual impairment.

===THEME 4: Applied Practice===

• modify clinical reasoning to account for personal bias, research findings, cultural, cognitive and emotional factors, ethical principles and available workplace resources;
• apply physiotherapy management in specialized areas of practice;
• extend skills in assessment and management of musculoskeletal conditions including sports injuries, pelvic ring dysfunction, spinal and headache;
• devise teaching plans for individual and group education;
• demonstrate clinical reasoning skills in the management of people with complex acute conditions;
• deliver exercise prescription and education, including functional progression of exercises based on knowledge of pathophysiology and clinical assessment findings;
• conduct appropriate patient interviews including the use of augmentative communication and AUSLAN;
• select appropriate methods for measurement of relevant health indicators;

===THEME 5: Design and describe a systematic review protocol===

• prepare a sound project proposal;
• describe circumstances when ethics approval for a project would be required and the steps in gaining ethics approval;
• describe quality in-depth interviews: applications and key features;
• describe a framework for designing and conducting qualitative research;
• identify methods of data analysis in qualitative research;
• define audit and differentiate audit from research;
• identify steps in the audit process;
• describe the role of the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards;
• apply key features of an effective power point presentation;
• discuss attributes of good public speakers;
• prepare for the clinical practice guideline (CPG) assignment to be completed in PTY3062;
• use the AGREE instrument to analyse a CPG;
• describe ways in which research skills can be utilised to enhance practice and the practice environment.