OT4004 - Advanced Professional Practice

Credit points:	03
Year:	2009
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	Occupational Therapy

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: paediatrics, occupational health and safety, mental health practice, indigenous community service delivery, rehabilitation, information technology, sexuality, splinting, access issues, specific clinical conditions requiring an advanced knowledge and skills acquisition. The individual modules will be available in semester mode and/or in 2/3 day intensive modules enabling other subjects to run concurrently. All students will complete a compulsory module in preparation for recruitment/employment.

Learning Outcomes

• carry out professional roles and responsibilities for selected advanced professional skills topics;
• 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;
• identify personal and professional competencies and future career goals.

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:

Students must have completed all third year subjects

Availabilities
Townsville, Block, Study Period 8
Census Date 21-Aug-2009
Face to face teaching 27-Jul-2009 to 02-Oct-2009 (Face to Face teaching)
Coord/Lect:	Ms Yvonne Thomas.
Contact hours:	92 hours
Assessment:	oncourse 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.