OCC4051 Contemporary advances in occupational therapy practice
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
OCC4051 Contemporary advances in occupational therapy practice is a level 4, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. It isn't offered in 2020. It needs OCC2020.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Not offered
The 2027 handbook has no page for OCC4051. This is its 2020 entry, the latest one.
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Requisites
Before OCC4051
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
After OCC4051
No unit lists OCC4051 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Overview
This unit examines how to advance contemporary occupational therapy practice through innovation, change, and leadership within evolving health and social care environments. Key topics include client-directed care/consumer-directed care, innovation, leadership and entrepreneurship, responding to complexity, managing change, product and service development, and on-going development of a professional identity.
Guest speakers will present on and examine topics such as identifying and developing new product and/or service opportunities, ethical practice, and funding systems and models. Students will consider application of this knowledge to their own areas of future practice.
Offerings in 2020
The 2020 handbook lists no offerings for OCC4051.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Analyse contextual, systemic and environmental factors that impact and drive contemporary occupational therapy practice.
- 2
Appraise and apply the features of effective and successful leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators relevant to contemporary occupational therapy practice.
- 3
Generate innovative development and marketing strategies appropriate for occupational therapists
- 4
Apply and evaluate change management strategies in the context of self, professional practice, environments, and systems.
- 5
Analyse and appraise aspects of client-directed care/consumer-directed care in the context of innovation, change, and leadership in contemporary health and social care environments.
Workload and teaching
12 hours of study per week consisting of 2 hours of lectures and 2 hours of seminar / tutorial sessions on campus plus an additional 8 hours of self-directed study will be required to complete learning tasks, undertake research and to complete assessment tasks.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Associate Professor Helen Bourke-Taylor
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Ted Brown
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for OCC4051?
You need OCC2020 before you enrol. Enrolment rules also apply.
When is OCC4051 offered?
OCC4051 has no offerings listed in the 2020 handbook.
More details
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 4
- Study level
- Undergraduate
- Faculty
- Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
- Organisational unit
- Department of Occupational Therapy
- Type
- Coursework
- EFTSL
- 0.125
- Student contribution
- SCA Band 2
- Study abroad
- Not available
- Handbook years
- 2020