PTY3051 Physiotherapy 5

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

1. 1
   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. Demonstrate a range of strategies that enable communication with clients, their caregivers and members of the health care team;
2. 2

   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

3. 3

   THEME 3: Fundamental Knowledge in Health Science:
   6. Apply knowledge of systems including endocrine, renal and reproductive, 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;

4. 4

   THEME 4: Applied Practice:
   13. Safely apply patient-centred approaches in physiotherapy assessment and intervention in areas of practice including oncology, women's health, amputees, chronic pain, falls, paediatrics and vestibular conditions;
   14. Apply sound clinical reasoning to justify assessment and intervention, including completion of clear and accurate documentation that complies with medico-legal standards.

5. 5

   THEME 5: Research:
   15. Outline the key steps required to develop research project proposals that follow evidence-based recommendations;
   16. Describe core ethical principles underpinning health and medical research in Australia and the processes required to obtain human ethics approval, and apply them to physiotherapy case studies;
   17. Describe the aims and approaches of commonly used research methods for health-related surveys and qualitative research, and apply aspects of their analysis to physiotherapy case studies;
   18. Describe the processes for conducting quality improvement activities and clinical audits, and demonstrate their alignment to the Australian National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards.