CHIR20009 - Clinical Practice 4

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit follows on directly from Clinical Practice 3 and will provide you with your first hands-on practical experience in the CQU Health Clinics. You will build on your theoretical knowledge and practical skills gained over the previous three clinical units. You will begin undertaking patient assessments and management with guidance from your supervisor. During the term, you will actively demonstrate your developing clinical assessment and decision making, treatment delivery, record keeping, communication skills and professionalism with support from the clinical supervisors. By the end of CP4, an increasing level of competency, consistency and professionalism in the healthcare setting should be demonstrable.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 9
Credit Points 12
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.25
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisite

CHIR20006 Clinical Practice 3

and

CHIR20005 Diagnostic Imaging 1

and

CHIR20007 Diagnostic Imaging 2

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

Term 1 - 2025 Profile
Brisbane
Mackay

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 12-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Portfolio 0%
2. Practical Assessment 0%
3. In-class Test(s) 0%

This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 28.57% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 19.44% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Verbal and email
Feedback
Students enjoyed having practical skills demonstrations incorporated into the daily case conferences.
Recommendation
It is recommended that practical demonstrations continue to be incorporated into the daily case conferences.
Action Taken
The practical demonstrations have continued to be incorporated into the daily case conferences.
Source: Verbal and email
Feedback
Students enjoyed the wide range of community outreach opportunities available within the clinic experience.
Recommendation
It is recommended that a wide range of community outreach opportunities continue to be offered within the clinic experience.
Action Taken
A wide range of community outreach opportunities continued to be available within the clinic experience.
Source: Verbal and email
Feedback
Students enjoyed the opportunity to engage with students from other healthcare disciplines.
Recommendation
It is recommended that opportunities for interprofessional learning with other healthcare disciplines continue to be explored and provided within the student clinic.
Action Taken
Expanding interprofessional learning with other disciplines has been expanded to provide more opportunities for students within the student clinic.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Some students felt that their experience would be improved if there were more clinical educators available during clinic shifts.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the discipline explore opportunities for additional staffing during busy clinic shifts.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Some students felt that the unit would benefit from the Unit Coordinator and the Clinic Education team working together more closely to ensure students are clear on all requirements.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the Unit Coordinator and the Clinic Education team meet before the term to familiarise everyone with the requirements of the unit.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Perform an appropriate patient-centred clinical assessment, within a clinical environment, under the guidance of the clinical supervisor
  2. Synthesise clinical data to generate differential diagnoses for specific patient complaints, select an appropriate working diagnosis and generate an appropriate treatment plan
  3. Provide an appropriate course of care while also applying health prevention and promotion principles to an individual patient’s management plan, with supervision and feedback
  4. Demonstrate an intermediate level of communication skills, including explaining a diagnosis and treatment plan to a patient, and producing written professional reports, with guidance from clinical supervisor
  5. Demonstrate appropriate professional conduct, congruent with the duty of care of a primary contact health care practitioner and the elements of the chiropractic code of conduct
  6. Identify the need for a patient to receive emergency care and or referral to another health care professional, with supervision and feedback.

The Learning Outcomes address the majority of elements and performance indicators of CCEA’s Accreditation Standards: Unit 3 Professional Interaction, Unit 6 Patient Assessment, Unit 7 Diagnostic Decision Making, Unit 8 Planning of Patient Care, and Unit 9 Implementation of Care. There will be some elements addressed from Unit 10 Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and Unit 11 Professional Scientific Development.

The Learning Outcomes will be evidenced in continuing, supervised full patient contact, Clinical Log Book and by specific 'time and place' assessment.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 - Portfolio • • • •
2 - Practical Assessment • • • • •
3 - In-class Test(s) • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 - Knowledge • • • • •
2 - Communication • • • • •
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills • •
4 - Research •
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility • • • • • •
7 - Leadership • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 - Portfolio • • • • • •
2 - Practical Assessment • • • •
3 - In-class Test(s) • • •