PTY3051 - Physiotherapy 5

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

THEME 1: Personal and Professional Development:

1. Summarise the aims of palliative care and factors that impact on end of life issues;
2. Explain how a physiotherapist can effectively contribute to health care teams working in the areas of palliative care, mental health, oncology, continence, women's health and amputee management;
3. Modify communication in response to individuals, clients and families;

THEME 2: Population, Society and Health:

4. Identify how ethnicity and culture influence health, healthcare and illness;
5. Identify how the key elements of the Australian health care system, including treatment frameworks by third party insurers, impact on physiotherapy practice;

THEME 3: Fundamental Knowledge in Health Science:

6. Apply knowledge of the endocrine, renal and reproductive systems and their common pathologies to physiotherapy management and patient care;
7. Compare the belief structures behind mainstream and complementary therapies, and their efficacy in therapy;
8. Explain the adaptation of human anatomy, posture and movement to workplace, leisure and aquatic environments, and apply these adaptations to patient conditions and patient care;
9. Describe common mental health conditions and their impact upon patient management;
10. Summarise the overarching principles of management for cancer, including therapeutic, surgical treatment options and physiotherapy management;
11. Justify adaptations in musculoskeletal care across emergency, acute, and subacute environments;
12. Categorise causes and presentation of intellectual impairment according to major groups and match these to appropriate assessment tools and health services and programs;

THEME 4: Applied Practice:

13. Apply physiotherapy management in specialised areas of practice, including patients presenting with complaints relating to oncology, women's health, amputees, chronic pain, and vestibular conditions;
14. Verbalise sound clinical reasoning to justify modification of assessment and management skills reflecting patient-centred approaches;

THEME 5: Research:

15. Prepare a sound research project proposal and describe circumstances when ethics approval would be required; describe necessary the steps in securing ethics approval for research:
16. Describe different approaches to qualitative research analysis; perform appropriate analysis of in depth interviews:
17. Define and describe the steps required for an audit; describe the role of the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards:
18. Explain the utility of clinical practice guidelines and describe the AGREE II approach to the evaluation of clinical practice guidelines