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OCCT4273

Advanced Professional Practice in Occupational Therapy

20 Units 4000 Level Course

Not available 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 the occupational therapy processes. Students must experience a range of different people with different needs, and in different circumstances. This course is the last of three major practice courses in this revised program.

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 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 advanced level of year four which is the final long practice experience and they should be deemed competent to start practice,
5. Students benchmark their learning against the Australian Competency Standards (1994, 1999) until such time as an agreed new set of competencies are designed. Other standards could be the WFOT Competencies.
Replacing Course(s)
N/A
Transition
N/A
Industrial Experience
0
Assumed Knowledge
Students must have successfully completed all the OCCT courses in first, second, third and semester one of fourth year.
Modes of Delivery
External Mode
Internal Mode
Teaching Methods
Practicum
Seminar
Assessment Items
Essays / Written Assignments
Critical paper on comparative practice experiences worth 30%
Other: (please specify)
Paper = 30%
Other: (please specify)
These objectives conform to the Student Practice Evaluation Form Revised [SPEF-R]

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 ( = 9 weeks). On completion University staff will translate this mark into a grade = 30%
Other: (please specify)
Paper taken from the contents of the Portfolio on Professional Development = 40%
Other: (please specify)
Online briefing preparation before practice
De-briefing laboratory after practice - Pass/Fail
Contact Hours
Practicum: for 38 hour(s) per Week for 9 weeks