OCC5070 Transition to practice
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
OCC5070 Transition to practice is a level 5, 12-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. It isn't offered in 2025. It needs OCC5060 and unlocks 1 unit.
- Credit points
- 12
- Offered in 2025
- Other periods
- Peninsula
- Assessment
- No exam
- 4 tasks
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before OCC5070
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After OCC5070
1 unit list OCC5070 as a prerequisite or corequisite.
Enrolment rules
Overview
In this unit you will refine knowledge and skills in professional self-management appropriate for practice as entry level occupational therapists. You will identify and document your learning needs for your final practice education placement and develop the ability to set objectives for personal practice development. Strategies for identifying and meeting your individual professional development needs, the legal and ethical requirements for your professional competency at graduate level, your role within the Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency (Ahpra) and the credentialing process will be identified. The unit will help you better understand recruitment and selection processes. You will conduct a literature review related to an occupational therapy practice area in collaboration with an industry mentor
Concurrently you will continue to work 2 days per week throughout the term (135 hours) in collaboration with a community-based agency to address a specific occupational need for an identified group, community or population. You will learn and apply project management skills on how to implement, evaluate and report on chosen quality improvement activities. During this time, you will consolidate skills in providing evidence to support the selected project deliverable/s and how to apply ethical principles to ensure safe practice when implementing deliverables that will contribute to service development.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Term 1 | Peninsula | Immersive |
Assessment
- Learning contract (1,000 word)Written10%
- Scoping review (3,000 words)Written30%
- Conference abstract, conference poster, oral presentation & reportWritten60%
- Practice education placement (9 weeks) Pass/FailWork integratedCompetency hurdle-
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Appraise your learning needs in order to maintain competence and professional development that meet professional standards and credentialing processes in occupational therapy.
- 2
Identify, evaluate and critique a range of professional support strategies that can be used to enhance professional practice.
- 3
Investigate, analyse, synthesise and communicate effectively evidence on a complex theoretical concept or problem in an area of occupational therapy practice that contributes to professional practice or scholarship
- 4
Apply ethical principles in designing and implementing quality improvement deliverables to a community partnership project and adapt service provision to ensure safe practice.
- 5
Interpret and synthesise primary and secondary information sources to guide the development of project deliverable/s.
- 6
Collaborate with key stakeholders to co-design project deliverable/s that meet the needs of the community partnership.
- 7
Synthesise the principles of enabling occupational participation, occupational rights and justice to groups, communities and populations to promote health and wellbeing, in the context of project implementation.
- 8
Identify and implement appropriate strategies to evaluate project processes, impacts and outcomes.
- 9
Interpret and transmit relevant project management knowledge, skills and ideas to key stakeholders using effective verbal and written communication
- 10
Identify and implement appropriate reflection strategies during and following service provision, and adapts this to improve own performance.
Workload and teaching
- Applied sessions135 hours
- Tutorials64 hours
9 weeks of academic and practice education placement comprising:
2 days per week PCP practice education placement
4 hours per week PCP tutorial
4 hours per week Transition to practice tutorial
12 hours per week self-directed study
Practice placement education weeks 1-9 - up to 16 hours per week. Practice placement education will require students to travel to fieldwork locations. These may be near or away from the campus.
Learning resources
Required resources
See Moodle for details about required resources.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Anoo Bhopti
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Anoo Bhopti
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for OCC5070?
You need OCC5060 before you enrol. Enrolment rules also apply.
What can I take after OCC5070?
OCC5070 is a prerequisite or corequisite for 1 unit, including OCC5080.
When is OCC5070 offered?
OCC5070 has no offerings listed in the 2025 handbook.
Does OCC5070 have an exam?
No. OCC5070 has 4 assessment tasks and no exam.