OCCT2254

Beginning Professional Practice in Occupational Therapy

Faculty of Health School of Health Sciences

20 Units 2000 Level Course

Available in 2013

Callaghan Campus	Semester 2

Previously offered in 2012

Applied and competent standards for integrating knowledge, professional reasoning and professional behaviour are developed within this practice course that lays emphasis on applying occupational therapy processes. Students must experience a range of different people with different needs, and in different circumstances. This course is the beginning one of three major practice courses in the program that are eight weeks in duration conforming to the World Federation of Occupational Therapists [WFOT] (2002) fieldwork requirements.

Objectives

These objectives conform to the Student Practice Evaluation Form Revised [SPEF-R]
1. Professional Behaviour
2. Self management Skills
3. Co-worker Communication
4. Communication Skills
5. Documentation
6. Information Gathering
7. Service Provision
8. Service Evaluation

Content

Each practice setting will be different for the students but the following are general indicators:
1. Each practice environment has a set of learning outcomes,
2. Each student has developed a personal learning contract with personal outcomes,
3. The two sets of outcomes above must be mutually negotiated and must form the basis of the practice experience. These documents are dynamic and can be altered during the course as proficiency develops,
4. Students learn the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for professional practice at this beginning level in year two. This is the students first long practice experience,
5. Students benchmark their learning against the Australian Competency Standards (2010; 1998 in Mental Health) until such time as an agreed new set of competencies are designed. Other standards are the World federation of Occupational Therapists [WFOT] Competencies 2002, & 2008.

Replacing Course(s)

N/A

Transition

N/A

Industrial Experience

Assumed Knowledge

Students must have completed successfully all the OCCT courses in first year and semester one of second year before they can go out on practice.

Modes of Delivery

External Mode
Internal Mode

Teaching Methods

Clinical

Assessment Items

Other: (please specify)	COMPULSORY COURSE COMPONENT : Compulsory pass required on the Student Practice Evaluation Form - Revised Addition (SPEF-R) to pass this course. Meets Objectives 1-8. PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 1) Below are the national categories from the Student Practice Evaluation Form - Revised Addition [SPEF-R] against which the students are assessed: Professional Behaviour Self management Skills Co-worker Communication Communication Skills Documentation Information Gathering Service Provision Service Evaluation On SPEF-R all the above categories are assessed by the practice educator on a 5 point Likert Scale at half-way ( = 4 weeks) and at the final week ( = 8 weeks). On completion University staff will translate this into a grade = 30%
Other: (please specify)	COMPULSORY COURSE COMPONENT: Compulsory pass required. Meets objectives 1-8. A Viva examination.
Other: (please specify)	COMPULSORY COURSE COMPONENT: Compulsory pass required. Meets objectives 1-8. Reflection portfolio on professional development.
Other: (please specify)	COMPULSORY COURSE COMPONENT: Compulsory pass required. On-line briefing quiz before practice De-briefing after practice laboratory - Pass/Fail
Other: (please specify)	No opportunity for remediation is allowed unless accompanied by an Adverse Circumstances application. Students who fail this course will have to re-take it the following year and cannot proceed to the 3rd year Occupational Therapy courses.

Contact Hours

Practical: for 304 hour(s) per Term for 8 weeks

Compulsory Components

Requisite by Enrolment	This course is only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Occupational Therapy program.
Compulsory Course Component	OHS-Criminal Record Check
Compulsory Course Component	OHS-Prohibited Employment Declaration
Compulsory Program Component	Successful completion of OCCT1201.

Timetables