PTY5201 Integrated practice

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

1. 1

   Describe the role of the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards on safety and quality in health;

2. 2

   Define and explain pain to others as a complex, multidimensional experience;

3. 3

   Communicate appropriate information to other health professionals involved in providing client care to optimize interprofessional management, including medical and surgical, behavioural and psychological, or pharmacological approaches;

4. 4

   Analyse strategies for successful management of stress and fatigue on physical and mental health;

5. 5

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

6. 6

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

7. 7

   Recognise common presentations of family violence in healthcare and describe best practice for management if encountered by a physiotherapist;

8. 8

   Synthesise the pathophysiology of injury and disease from multiple systems and integrate knowledge into physiotherapy assessment and management;

9. 9

   Apply knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the endocrine, renal, reproductive and vestibular systems and their common pathologies to physiotherapy management and client care;

10. 10

    Apply physiotherapy management in specialised areas of practice, including clients presenting with complaints relating to oncology, women’s health, amputees, chronic pain, vestibular, falls, dementia and complex musculoskeletal conditions;

11. 11

    Utilise data from imaging or investigation results to inform clinical reasoning; and

12. 12

    Complete systematic review tasks in accordance with recommended methods such as those outlined in the Cochrane handbook