| Effective Term: | 2024/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Foundations of Allied Health Professional Practice |
| Unit ID: | NHPRH1004 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 061799 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit provides students with opportunities to gain an understanding of the role of allied health professionals within the modern health care environment. The unit explores therapist-patient relationships and equips students with skills and knowledge they will utilise in future clinical placements and practice. Professionalism and inter-professional constructs will be examined and discussed with regards to the allied health professions. Students will learn skills which are fundamental to successful and safe practice across a range of heath settings. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | Yes - 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: |
| K1. | Explain health professional roles, identity and interprofessional practice to ensure safe, effective, and efficient clinical practice |
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| K2. | Describe issues related to and methods to ensure personal safety, ethical practice and effective service delivery across a range of healthcare settings and in a multicultural environment |
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| K3. | Utilising appropriate frameworks, describe the influencing factors which impact on client wellbeing including client attitudes and perspectives on health management |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Relate health professional roles, identity and interprofessional practice to ensure safe, effective and efficient clinical practice across a range of healthcare settings and in a multicultural environment |
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| S2. | Demonstrate ethical and practical skills appropriate for allied health practice with consideration for the legal obligations |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Apply the relevant healthcare frameworks to the management of health-related disorders within Allied Health professional practice |
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| A2. | Apply the theoretical aspects of assisted technology and mobility aids in a clinical scenario |
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| Unit Content: |
•Exploring allied health professions
•Models of Health and International classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
•Factors affecting Allied Health professional service delivery including client perspectives
•Client-therapist relationships
•Evidence-based practice and research literary skills
•Client contexts
•Ethical and legal aspects of allied health practice
•Health professional relationships, documentation
•Skills development: Measuring vital signs, clinical observations, infection control, mobility aids, safe client handling
•Inter-professional practice |
| 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 | 3 - N/A | 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 | 3 - N/A | 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 | 3 - N/A | 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, K3, S1, A1 | Written task exploring the role of the healthcare professional in relation to a clinical scenario | Written assignment | 15-30% | | 2. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2 | Students to work together in a small group to prepare a short video presentation based on a case scenario | Group Presentation | 15-30% | | 3. | S1, S2, A1, A2 | Skills assessment of selected clinical tasks previously taught in the practical sessions (e.g. vital signs; mobility aids; manual handling) | Practical Assessment | 5-15% | | 4. | K1, K2, K3, S1, A1, A2 | Invigilated written assessment on all topics covered throughout the semester | Written Examination | 40-60% |
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