PTY3051 Physiotherapy 5

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

1. 1

   Summarise the aims of palliative care and factors that impact on end of life issues;

2. 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. 3

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

4. 4

   Identify how ethnicity and culture influence health, healthcare and illness;

5. 5

   Identify how the key elements of the Australian health care system, including treatment frameworks by third party insurers, impact on physiotherapy practice;

6. 6

   Apply knowledge of systems including endocrine, renal and reproductive, and their common pathologies to physiotherapy management and patient care;

7. 7

   Compare the belief structures behind mainstream and complementary therapies, and their efficacy in therapy;

8. 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. 9

   Describe common mental health conditions and their impact upon patient management;

10. 10

    Summarise the overarching principles of management for cancer, including therapeutic, surgical treatment options and physiotherapy management;

11. 11

    Justify adaptations in musculoskeletal care across emergency, acute, and subacute environments;

12. 12

    Categorise causes and presentation of intellectual impairment according to major groups and match these to appropriate assessment tools and health services and programs;

13. 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. 14

    Apply sound clinical reasoning to justify assessment and intervention, including completion of clear and accurate documentation that complies with medico-legal standards;

15. 15

    Outline the key steps required to develop research project proposals that follow evidence-based recommendations;

16. 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. 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. 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.