| Effective Term: | 2027/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Physiotherapy Applications Across the Lifespan |
| Unit ID: | NHPPS3015 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (NHPPS2024 and NHPPS2124 and NHPPS2224) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 061701 |
| Other Change: | |
| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit is designed to enable students to assess clients, and develop and implement physiotherapy intervention strategies for common conditions encountered across the lifespan. Continuity, change and the effect of injury and pathology are considered with respect to paediatrics, men's and women's health, chronic disease, gerontology and palliative care. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | Yes - 1 days |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | | | | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| Skills: |
| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| Other outcomes: |
| O1. | Analyse and apply principles of typical development, healthy ageing, and common anatomical and pathophysiological processes to inform physiotherapy assessment and management decisions for individuals across various stages of the lifespan. |
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| O2. | Interpret and justify safe, effective, condition appropriate physiotherapy assessment and perform intervention across selected practice areas, demonstrating consideration of comorbidities, stage of life, and concurrent health conditions. |
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| O3. | Design and adapt and implement physiotherapy management plans that support safe, person centred, culturally responsive, and trauma informed assessment and intervention across the lifespan. |
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| O4. | Demonstrate understanding of communication and collaboration principles required to work with clients, families, and members of the interprofessional healthcare team, adapted to support care across various stages of the lifespan. |
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| O5. | Evaluate and reflect on physiotherapy practice decisions using contemporary frameworks to demonstrate professional judgement, ethical practice, and readiness for clinical practice. |
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| Unit Content: |
This unit will review health through the lifespan with a focus on physiotherapy. Topics may therefore include the following: Paediatrics – normal growth and development Spina Bifida Intellectual Impairment Autism Cerebral Palsy (CP) and Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) including Assessment and Management Muscular Dystrophy and other Dystrophies Ageing and Adulthood Incontinence & Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Lymphedema, Breast and gynaecological issues Physiotherapy for the Childbearing Year, Exercise for women across the lifespan Men’s Health Palliative care Falls, balance and mobility in older persons Drug therapy and the elderly Motivational Interviewing |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students at this level will demonstrate an advanced ability in a range of contexts to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display high level skills in-person and/or online in: • Using and demonstrating a high level of verbal and non-verbal communication • Demonstrating a mastery of listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Demonstrating and showing empathy for others • High order skills in negotiating and conflict resolution skills\\ • Demonstrating mastery of working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery in professional skills and behaviours in leading others. • Creating and sustaining a collegial environment • Demonstrating a high level of self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect and justify decisions • Inspiring and initiating opportunities to lead others • Making informed professional decisions • Demonstrating initiative in new professional situations. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students at this level will demonstrate high level skills in working in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically to generate and consider complex ideas and concepts at an abstract level • Analysing complex and abstract ideas, concepts and information • Communicate alternative perspectives to justify complex ideas • Demonstrate a mastery of challenging conventional thinking to clarify complex concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving to new situations for further learning. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students at this level will demonstrate the ability to work competently across a wide range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Mastering, exploring, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information professionally • Collating, managing complex data, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding professionally to messages in a range of professional digital media • Contributing competently and professionally to digital teams and working groups • Participating at a high level in digital learning opportunities. | | FEDTASK 5
sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery of considering and assessing the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting professional ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Demonstrate informed judgment making that considers the impact of devising complex solutions in ambiguous global economic environmental and societal contexts • Professionally committing to the promulgation of social responsibility • Demonstrate the ability to evaluate ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Communicating lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to the diverse professional others • Generating, leading and implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | Professional Standards |
| 1. |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
Written case study on a paediatric presentation |
Written Assignment |
25-35% |
1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.2, 4.3 |
| 2. |
2, 3, 4 |
Delivery of exercise class |
Practical Assessment |
30-40% |
1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1 |
| 3. |
1, 2, 4, 5 |
Written examination on theoretical content and clinical reasoning |
Written Final Examination |
30-40% |
1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.3 |
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