OCC3000 Enabling occupation: Practice education placement

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Take responsibility for own attitudes and behaviour, as demonstrated by acknowledging prejudices, limitations, and lack of knowledge, and commitment to change and growth as a result of professional development, and reflective learning.

2. 2

   Demonstrate skills in self-assessment and be able to act on feedback received, as well as provide constructive feedback to others in a practice education experience.

3. 3

   Apply to practice the occupational therapy theories on the relationship between the person, the environment (physical, social, institutional and cultural) and occupation as the basis for occupational therapy practice.

4. 4

   Synthesise the complex interacting factors that contribute to notions of culture and cultural relationships, health and illness and multicultural diversity to professional practice and citizenship.

5. 5

   Describe, critique and apply best evidence available for occupational therapy individual and group intervention strategies, methods and modalities used with clients of occupational therapy presenting with occupational performance challenges.

6. 6

   Demonstrate integrated professional reasoning (involving the threshold concepts of purposeful and meaningful occupation, client-centred/family centred practice, occupational therapy theory and practice, identity as an occupational therapist, and thinking critically, reasoning and reflecting) in the development and implementation of occupationally relevant intervention strategies.

7. 7

   Write relevant, concise and comprehensive reports and substantiate both written and oral reports with information from assessments, observations and interviews.

8. 8

   Communicate and work collaboratively with clients and all staff, including other members of the team, and be able to refer appropriately to optimise client health care.

9. 9

   Maintain the legal, ethical and professional standards and emergency procedures set by the facility, Monash University and OT Australia code of ethics.