James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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OT4001:12

Advanced Rural or Urban Practice

Townsville

Prerequisites: OT3002 OT3003 OT3005

39 hours supervision, 52 hours flexible contact, 500 hours clinical placement. First and second semester and summer school.

Available to level 3 and above Occupational Therapy students.

Staff: Fieldwork Educator.

The subject will provide a minimum of 500 hours (14 weeks at 36 hours) of advanced supervised clinical placement with flexible support from the University to integrate and develop previously learnt material with new observational and practical clinical training. The placement will be either rural or urban at an advanced level and will enable the student to apply, develop, analyse and integrate the theories, principles and practice of occupational therapy in a variety of settings.

Learning Objectives:

  1. demonstrate competency in observation and evaluation of function or dysfunction in activities affecting independent living in relation to culturally specific requirements;
  2. demonstrate competency in the re-evaluation of clients’ safety, independence, change in health status following occupational therapy intervention and the culturally specific requirements of the client;
  3. develop individual objectives for their own professional development. The student will demonstrate good time management skills;
  4. develop individual aims of intervention and outcomes of practice for clients referred for occupational therapy intervention and demonstrate competent clinical reasoning;
  5. demonstrate, analyse and apply data collection techniques for total quality management of the client or training facility;
  6. demonstrate competent skills in self directed learning;
  7. need to achieve competency for personal accreditation and registration requirements.

Assessment by clinical fieldwork performance report (pass/fail); attendance record (pass/fail); individual learning contract with supervisor (20%); develop professional portfolio/graduate profile (50%); centre specific project (30%). The clinical fieldwork performance report must be passed for accreditation. The learning contract, professional portfolio/graduate profile and project provide a University grade for this subject.

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