Available in 2024
Course code

PHTY3080

Units

10 units

Level

3000 level

Course handbook

Description

This course provides the physiotherapy clinical skills and knowledge needed for the evaluation and management of issues specific to particular life stages, for example, childhood, adolescence, the childbearing years and older age. The course involves advanced studies in physiotherapy practice related to specific life stages.


Availability2024 Course Timetables

Callaghan

  • Semester 2 - 2024

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Apply biomedical, epidemiological and behavioural scientific knowledge to the physiotherapy evaluation and management of people across the stages of life such as childhood, adolescence, childbearing and older ages.

2. Understand and consider relevant financial, cultural, legal and ethical considerations in managing patients across the life stages.

3. Perform comprehensive and appropriate patient/group/population assessment across various life stages.

4. Apply advanced clinical reasoning skills and a sophisticated evidence based approach to decision making in physiotherapy practice for people across the life stages.

5. Select and apply appropriate and relevant physiotherapy management strategies for people across the life stages.

6. Develop their skills in applying advanced management evaluation and outcome processes appropriate for physiotherapy practice.

7. Demonstrate an awareness of community resources available for people with specific health needs across the lifespan

8. Demonstrate an understanding of the functions of multidisciplinary teams, the role of the physiotherapist within the team and the role of carers in the management of people across the life stages.


Content

  1. Aetiology, epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical aspects of health issues relating to life stages (such as childhood, peripartum, ageing), and the effects on systems including respiratory, neurological and musculoskeletal.
  2. Comprehensive physiotherapeutic evaluation of individuals/groups/populations across the life stages.
  3. Clinical reasoning skills needed for planning and implementing physiotherapy management relevant to specific life stages.
  4. Techniques, indications, contraindications, complications, progression, biological basis of, and empirical evidence for, physiotherapeutic management of individuals and populations across the life stages.
  5. Non-physiotherapeutic management (conservative, surgical and pharmacological) of health issues across the life stages.
  6. Patient education and health promotion strategies relevant to specific life stages.
  7. Psychosocial considerations relevant to managing patients across the life stages.
  8. Ethical, lifespan, gender, cultural and legal issues relevant to the management of specific life stages for physiotherapy practice
  9. Multidisciplinary team management of health issues across the life stages, including team decision making and service delivery options.

Requisite

This course is only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours) program [12337]. Students must have successfully completed PHTY3020 or PHTY3070 and successfully completed PHTY2020, PUBH1080, HUBS2503.


Assumed knowledge

All year 1 and 2 Courses in the B PHTY (Hons)


Assessment items

Quiz: Online Quiz 1
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.

Quiz: Online Quiz 2
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.

Online Open Book Formal Examination: Written Examination


Contact hours

Semester 2 - 2024 - Callaghan

Lecture-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 32 hour(s) per term
Practical-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 28 hour(s) per term

Course outline