PTY5202 Clinical practice 1

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

1. 1

   Demonstrate professional behaviour in client care and rights that is culturally sensitive and in accordance with legal requirements;

2. 2

   Communicate appropriately and effectively across written and verbal mediums, with clients, staff, and other health care stakeholders;

3. 3

   Reflect critically on practice and propose knowledge and skill gaps and methods for ongoing learning;

4. 4

   Seek, reflect on and respond appropriately to feedback from others in the practice context and analyse strategies for successful management of stress and fatigue on physical and mental health;

5. 5

   Tailor knowledge and skills to effectively assess client needs, including selection of relevant measures of health indicators and outcomes;

6. 6

   Analyse and plan appropriate patient interactions, including patient-centred goal development, and the selection of appropriate interventions;

7. 7

   Critically analyse risks and adverse events associated with client assessments and interventions;

8. 8

   Describe and analyse a client's transition to a new context, referral for further physiotherapy and linkage to relevant clinical and non-clinical support services

9. 9

   Identify, critically appraise and apply evidence-based practice to client care in physiotherapy;

10. 10

    Appraise clinical practice guidelines used in physiotherapy practice.