| Effective Term: | 2024/20 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Physiotherapy Health Law and Ethics |
| Unit ID: | NHPPS4003 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (NHPPS4001) OR (NHPPS4101) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | (NHPOT4003) |
| ASCED: | 061701 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit will increase the students’ knowledge of health law and its application to physiotherapy practice. Students will gain an understanding of ethics and bioethics and develop skills in working through complex moral and ethical issues, recognising and reflecting on different points of view. It will build their capacity to explain the legal framework and professional standards governing physiotherapy, including the expectations around cultural safety. This unit will further help students build essential job readiness skills to develop an effective resume and interview strategies for meeting employer expectations. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | |
| 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. | Demonstrate an understanding of legal rules, regulations, and principles relevant to healthcare delivery and the legal frameworks and professional guidelines governing physiotherapy practice. |
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| K2. | Understand contemporary ethical theories that inform clinical practice and their application in health professional service delivery. |
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| K3. | Accurately describe the scope of physiotherapy practice, the legal and ethical risks in clinical practice, and the penalties associated with failure to comply with regulatory standards for practice. |
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| K4. | Identify key components of culturally safe practice and cross-cultural communication required for physiotherapy practice in Australian healthcare contexts. |
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| K5. | Explain the principles and best practices for essential job readiness skills relating to resume writing, interview preparation and employer expectations. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Discuss legal and ethical decision-making in professional service delivery in a multicultural society whether urban, rural or remote. |
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| S2. | Identify moral and ethical issues in physiotherapy scope of practice in a range of healthcare settings. |
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| S3. | Demonstrate culturally responsive and safe practice. |
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| S4. | Demonstrate essential job readiness skills for entering the workforce including resume writing, interview preparation and employer expectations. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Apply and integrate legal rules, ethical principles and cultural safety into clinical reasoning and reflective practice in real-world situations |
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| A2. | Explain the legal framework governing physiotherapy practice and chain of reporting when ethical practice has potentially been breached. |
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| A3. | Explain scenarios whereby practicing outside of the physiotherapy scope could result in malpractice and demonstrate strategies to minimise legal liabilities. |
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| A4. | Apply essential job readiness skills to develop an effective resume and interview strategies for graduate positions. |
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| Unit Content: |
Topics may include:
1. Introduction to legal frameworks.
2. Ethical Theories and Frameworks
3. Non-Western / Indigenous Perspectives on Ethics
4. Professional Codes of Conduct and Scope of Practice
5. Informed Consent and Confidentiality
6. Health Privacy Laws and Data Protection
7. Liability and Risk Management
8. Emerging legal and ethical issues in physiotherapy
9. Foundations of Job Readiness
10. Crafting a Resume and Cover Letter
11. Mastering Interview Skills
12. Navigating Employer Expectations |
| 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 high-level skills to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups Students will be required to display (in person and/or online) high-level skills in-person and/or online in: • Effective verbal and non-verbal communication via a range of synchronous and asynchronous methods • Active listening for meaning and influencing • High-level empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating extended conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply leadership skills and behaviours Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating, contributing to, and enabling collegial environments • Showing self-awareness and the ability to self-reflect for personal growth • Inspiring and enabling others • Making informed and evidence-based decisions through consultation with others • Displaying initiative and ability to solve problems | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complex and ambiguous environments, using their imagination to create new ideas Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically on complex problems • Synthesising, evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Proposing alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts through deep inquiry • Proposing creative solutions in problem solving | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work proficiently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks Students will be required to display high-level skills in: • Finding, accessing, collating, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and appropriately and securely sharing complex digital information at a high-level • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Using digital tools appropriately to conduct research • Contributing proficiently to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and utilising digital learning opportunities | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to think ethically and sustainably. Students will be required to display skills in: • The responsible conduct of research • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in multiple global economic environmental and societal contexts • Demonstrating commitment to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Generating research solutions which are sustainable,ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable • Extending lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • Demonstrate extended actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life. | 1 - Yes |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K2, K3, K4, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2, A3 | Group Debate and Written Submission | Presentation and Written Assessment | 25-35% | | 2. | K5, S4, A4 | Workforce Readiness Portfolio | E-portfolio | 35-45% | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, K4, S1, S2, S3, S4, A1, A2, A3 | Content from sessions and self-directed learning | Written examination | 25-35% |
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