Professional Experience Placement (PEP)
Students will be allocated PEP within individual health care agencies. Students must be available 5 days a week (40 hours) during the allocated PEP, and must be prepared to undertake a range of shifts – morning, evening and nightshift, which may include weekends, as per roster provided by the healthcare agency. Students may be expected to relocate and are expected to travel to where PEP is available. To be eligible to undertake PEP, all students must be ‘Verified’ as meeting College of Health and Medicine PEP Safety in Practice Compliance as per the Course Entry Requirements.
Students who cannot or do not comply with these requirements will not be allocated PEP and therefore will not be able to complete this unit.
PEP dates MAY differ from University of Tasmania calendar semester dates.
Introduction
This professional experience placement unit explores concepts associated with sustainable health care and service delivery through an occupational lens. Relevant frameworks, including the Sustainable Quality Improvement (SuSQI) principles are applied in practice to research, analyse and make recommendations for improvement in sustainable practice. Using participatory and collaborative methods you will plan and implement a project in partnership with a host agency and key stakeholders. The issue you are working on will be pitched to you by the agency and will reflect contemporary need for quality improvement for client focused service outcomes. You will demonstrate occupational therapy competencies at an intermediate level including professional practice, self-management and teamwork, communication, documentation, information gathering, critical analysis, service delivery, evaluation, and reflective practice.
Summary
| Unit name | Occupational Therapy Practice 3 |
| Unit code | CXA720 |
| Credit points | 12.5 |
| College/School | Health School of Health Sciences |
| Discipline | Health Sciences |
| Coordinator | Professor Angela Berndt |
| Delivered By | University of Tasmania |
| Level | Postgraduate |
Learning Outcomes
- Explain the relationships between sustainability principles and practices, occupational therapy, and service delivery.
- Perform research literacy skills, information gathering, and synthesis aimed at quality improvement through a sustainability framework.
- Use critical analysis and participatory methods to identify and recommend ethical quality improvements in service delivery for individuals, communities, and populations in a relevant practice context.
- Apply critical self-reflection and the attributes of life-long learning to ongoing professional development as an occupational therapist and a client advocate.
- Demonstrate professional attributes, including effective therapeutic communication, professionalism, and active engagement through inquiry and interprofessional collaboration.
Fee Information
| Field of Education | Commencing Student Contribution 1,3 | Grandfathered Student Contribution 1,3 | Approved Pathway Course Student Contribution 2,3 | Domestic Full Fee 4 |
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| not applicable |
1 Please refer to more information on student contribution amounts.
2 Please refer to more information on eligibility and Approved Pathway courses.
3 Please refer to more information on eligibility for HECS-HELP.
4 Please refer to more information on eligibility for FEE-HELP.
If you have any questions in relation to the fees, please contact UniConnect or more information is available on StudyAssist.
Please note: international students should refer to What is an indicative Fee? to get an indicative course cost.
Requisites
Prerequisites
CXA718 Occupational Therapy Practice 2|CXA723 Health, Environment and AbilityCo-requisites
CXA746 Developing as Allied Health CollaboratorsTeaching
| Teaching Pattern | Independent Learning (1hr 10 times), Individual Study (1hr 10 times), Professional Experience Placement (7hrs 28 times), Workshop (6hrs 2 times), Professional Experience Placement (8hrs 3 times) |
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| Assessment | Assessment of Occupational Therapy Practice|Targeted Literature Review (20%)|Sustainable Project Outcomes and Evaluation Report (40%)|Sustainable Project Plan (40%) |
| Timetable | View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable |
Textbooks
| Required |
Required readings will be listed in the unit outline prior to the start of classes. |
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