OT4004 - Advanced Professional Practice

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:

Available to Bachelor of Occupational Therapy and Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (Honours) students.

Advanced professional skills will be applied to current professional practice in a number of employment settings, such as health, education, industry, rural and remote, indigenous and primary care. Specialist competency may be acquired in the following domains reflecting the lifespan such as childhood, adolescence, adulthood, middle age and the elderly. Advanced professional skills may include but are not limited to the following examples: driving assessment, paediatrics, occupational health and safety, mental health practice, indigenous community service delivery, rehabilitation, information technology, access issues, specific clinical conditions requiring an advanced knowledge and skills acquisition. The individual modules will be available in semester mode and/or in two week half block mode enabling other subjects to run concurrently.

Learning Outcomes

• carry out professional roles and responsibilities for selected advanced professional skills topics;
• define personal learning needs;
• demonstrate an understanding of the range of skills, resources and services available to prospective client groups;
• demonstrate competence in an advanced professional skill;
• demonstrate competency in transferable skills for self management, communication and learning;
• identify own learning needs and develop lifelong skills in seeking supervision, professional support and mentorship;
• understand and apply advanced occupational therapy concepts to an identified professional service delivery sector.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively;
• The ability to select and use appropriate IT tools;
• The ability to access and employ online technologies effectively;
• The ability to use and interpret different media;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to use a variety of media and methods to retrieve, analyse, evaluate, organise and present information;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning processes and products;
• A commitment to lifelong learning and intellectual development.

Prerequisites:

OT3005

Availabilities
, , Study Period 8
Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Face to face teaching 07-Aug-2006 to 22-Sep-2006 (Face to Face teaching)
Coord/Lect:	Dr Yvonne Thomas.
Contact hours:	92 hours
Assessment:	.

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.