| Effective Term: | 2025/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Acute Care Physiotherapy |
| Unit ID: | NHPPS3415 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (NHPPS2024 and NHPPS2224) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | (NHPPS3215) |
| ASCED: | 061701 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit will further build on students' knowledge in relation to physiotherapy assessment and intervention by expanding their skills towards acute care physiotherapy. Students will be expected to apply evidence-based research, safety considerations, and, where appropriate, explore the medico-legal implications of techniques within the acute care setting. The unit is designed to provide students with foundational practical abilities to work in acute care by exposing them to current assessment and treatment methods while emphasising and exploring the principles of team-based therapy and critical thinking across a range of clinical scenarios. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: No |
| 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: |
| K1. | Understand the role of the physiotherapist in the acute care setting, including interprofessional practice and team-based care. |
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| K2. | Describe key anatomical, pathophysiological, and biomechanical aspects related to a variety of acute care conditions and procedures. |
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| K3. | Explain the essential components of a patient's history and medical notes in relation to their current acute care presentation. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Demonstrate competent, safe, and appropriate performance of assessment techniques specific to acute care presentations, considering any medico-legal requirements. |
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| S2. | Prescribe appropriate early-stage rehabilitation interventions for patients in the acute care setting. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Apply clinical reasoning skills in the assessment and treatment planning of patients in acute care, considering individual patient goals and conditions. |
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| A2. | Utilise evidence-based research to guide clinical reasoning in the assessment and treatment of acute care patients, understanding timeframes of healing, treatment pathways, and prognosis. |
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| Unit Content: |
Acute orthopaedic/cardiorespiratory/neurological case management Acute on chronic conditions Imaging Elective procedures Trauma The Multidisciplinary Team Discharge planning/Continuum of care Multiple trauma Critical care Palliative care Hydrotherapy Amputee Care |
| 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 will demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, inter-act and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display skills in-person and/or online in: • Using effective verbal and non-verbal communication • Listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Showing empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others. Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating a collegial environment • Showing self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect • Inspiring and convincing others • Making informed decisions • Displaying initiative | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically • Evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Considering alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work fluently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Finding, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information • Collating, managing, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Contributing actively to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and benefiting from digital learning opportunities. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in global economic environmental and societal contexts • Committing to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Evaluating ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Embracing lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • 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 | | 1. | K1, K3, S2, A1, A2 | Problem List Presentation | Oral Viva | 15-25% | | 2. | K1, S1, S2, A1 | Practical Demonstration | Skills Mastery | 15-25% | | 3. | K1, K3, S1, S2, A1 | Practical Examination | OSCE | 20-40% | | 4. | K1, K3, S1, S2, A1 | Practical Examination | OSCE - Hurdle | S/U | | 5. | K1, K2, K3, A1, A2 | Written Examination | Written Examination | 25-45% |
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