OCCT12003 - Occupational Performance across the Lifespan 1

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit you will be introduced to professional reasoning, evidence based and culturally sensitive practice for occupational therapy in the paediatric context from birth to middle childhood. You will learn to plan occupational therapy evaluations, measurable goals and interventions for children, applying an occupational therapy practice process, evidence based frames of reference and occupational therapy practice models. You will explore key elements of realistic occupational therapy service delivery, using case studies of children with a range of impairments and occupational profiles. You will be coached to take part in interprofessional case discussions that simulate collaboration in a paediatric allied health team. Specific paediatric skills and knowledge will be enhanced through work integrated learning within the term, during which you will gain practical experience working with children.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 2
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Students must have successfully completed the following Essential Prerequisites:

OCCT11002

OCCT11001

PSYC11010

ALLH11001

ALLH11004 or BMSC11008

ALLH11005 or BMSC11007

ALLH11006

ALLH12007 or ALLH11009


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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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2023

Term 1 - 2024 Profile
Bundaberg
Rockhampton

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 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Online resource/s 0%
2. Online Quiz(zes) 40%
3. Portfolio 60%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2022 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 42.86% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 48.28% 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: Have Your Say Personal Reflection Student comments
Feedback
Students need teaching support on both campuses.
Recommendation
It is strongly recommended that a specialist paediatric occupational therapist be employed to support Bundaberg campus students.
Action Taken
The paediatric occupational therapist who had previously agreed to support Bundaberg students in this unit was not able to do so as planned. Permanent Bundaberg occupational therapy academic staff provided regular tutorial support as they were available.
Source: Have Your Say Personal Reflection Student comments
Feedback
Organisation of the hands on sessions with children needs to ensure students are prepared.
Recommendation
It is recommended that changes to the structure and timing of the on-campus sessions with children are made to enable students to be prepared for sessions. More spaces for these sessions may be needed to accommodate the increased cohort size expected for 2022.
Action Taken
A structured timetable for the hands on evaluation sessions was implemented. Students were provided with on campus support by paediatric occupational therapy staff at both campuses.
Source: Have Your Say
Feedback
Organisation of unit and classes needs to allow sufficient time to complete all planned content.
Recommendation
It is recommended that consultation with Learning and Teaching staff occurs to make appropriate changes to unit organisation and reduce number of topics in the curriculum to focus on essential content.
Action Taken
Revision of curriculum to focus on content essential to the student assessment tasks was implemented.
Source: Have Your Say
Feedback
The unit contains interesting and useful topics for paediatric practice.
Recommendation
It is recommended that in conjunction with the changes to unit organisation and structure, key topics and learning activities that students enjoyed will be retained.
Action Taken
This recommendation was fully implemented in 2022.
Source: Have Your Say
Feedback
IPE sessions not helpful and students were underprepared
Recommendation
It is recommended that the trial of the online IPE format being undertaken in Term 2 in OCCT12004 be implemented for the 2022 offering of OCCT12003.
Action Taken
Students engaged in the trial online version of IPE for 2022. Teaching staff will include additional information in the IPE Moodle site for students in regards to expectations for working in IPE groups for 2023.
Source: Feedback comments
Feedback
It was costly to purchase the prescribed textbook, especially to access the video case resources for assessments.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the library be requested to provide the e-book version of the prescribed textbook for students along with the other supplementary text e-books. It is also recommended that a different method of providing access to the video resources for assessment tasks will be trialled in 2023.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Feedback comments
Feedback
Students had difficulty locating some Unit resources on Moodle.
Recommendation
It is recommended that streamlining of document locations on Moodle is done to reduce student confusion.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Feedback comments Academic staff reflections
Feedback
Students at Bundaberg campus wanted more academic support to ask questions and enhance their learning.
Recommendation
It is recommended that timetabling of the regular class tutorials is organised to allow for existing staff to provide in person academic support in the practical learning components of the unit, including the intensives. It is recommended that workshops are organised so they do not require the same level of oncampus support for students.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Feedback comments
Feedback
Some students found the use of Microsoft Teams confusing, and preferred all document files to be located on Moodle.
Recommendation
It is recommended that continued use of Teams in this unit is limited to communication between students and teaching staff. It is further recommended that all documents relevant to students will be uploaded to Moodle, with instructions for the document location and a document link posted in Teams rather than the file itself.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Student comments in class
Feedback
Student workload was perceived as being too high.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the assessment suite for this unit be reviewed with regard to decreasing the student workload and to ensure key learning outcomes are still addressed.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Identify key cultural, developmental and environmental factors influencing the occupational performance of infants and children
  2. Demonstrate professional and ethical behaviours consistent with a paediatric occupational therapy practiitioner.
  3. Explain and demonstrate the use of allocated evaluation tools for children with specific impairments
  4. Create occupation-focused goals and recommendations for assigned paediatric contexts.
  5. Apply professional reasoning to present evidence-based occupational therapy interventions for paediatric cases.

The unit overview, unit learning outcomes, and assessment pieces are aligned with requirements in the Australian Occupational Therapy Competency Standards (AOTCS, 2018). These competency standards acknowledge the diversity of roles and contexts that currently exist in occupational therapy practice.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures • • • •
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