module specification

Practice Education 3: Developing clinical practice 2 module is the third practice education module on this course and provides the second of two placement experiences this year. It is aimed at further extending students’ limit of practice in the second year through a block placement experience.

The module will prepare and support students to be successful in their block placement experience. In the module, students will have opportunities to prepare for their block placements through clinical simulation activities using case studies examples from the concurrently running physiotherapy theory and practice modules (PT5000 & PT5052).

Specifically, in this module, you will:

Develop assessment and management skills in clinical simulation sessions.

Attend a block placement to further consolidate your theoretical knowledge, skills, and attitudes for managing service users in a variety of clinical conditions. 

Have opportunities to engage with clinical governance processes in place to quality assure clinical services.

Have opportunities to accumulate more practice hours required for your professional training.

Pre-requisite: All Level 4 modules, PT5W51

Co-requisites: PT5000, PT5051, PT5052, PT5053, 

Available for Study Abroad? NO

Knowledge

Physiotherapy framework to map development. (LO5)

Scope of practice (LO5)

Fitness to practice (LO4)

Relevant and appropriate sources of support, advice and guidance on how to access them (LO6)

Maintaining personal health and wellbeing (LO4)

Valid consents, confidentiality, information governance

Health promotion policies (LO7)

Models of Clinical reasoning (LO1)

Skills

Manual Handling skills (LO1)

Basic Life Support & Manual Handling Skills (LO1)

Self-Awareness

Assessment and management of patients with variety of clinical conditions in clinical settings (LO1, LO2)

Evaluation of intervention and health service outcomes

Advanced communication skills (LO3), LO4)

Team working skills (LO4)

Time management skills, prioritisation (LO1)

SOAP notes

Making every contact count (LO7)

Attitudes

Lifelong learning 

Reflective practice (LO7)

Team working

Compliance with clinical governance legislation

Taking responsibility as an evidence-based practitioner 

Awareness of health inequality in practice (LO7)

This module utilises experiential learning approaches of clinical simulation and a 5-week block clinical placement in clinical settings. Students will complete clinical simulation sessions prior to starting their placements using case study triggers from taught sessions in PT5000 & PT5052 modules.

During placements, students will learn through clinical observation, clinical and reflective practice under the supervision of practice educators and participate in clinical de-briefs with academic tutors in the University. Students will have a university link tutor supporting them throughout their clinical placement block.

This clinical placement provides students with opportunities to consolidate their academic and professional learning in the second year.

By the end of this module students should:

Gather relevant and detailed information from a range of sources to determine the needs of different groups of service users, apply clinical reasoning to identify key issues, develop treatment goals, select evidence-based interventions, apply it safely within the limits of their practice and record outcomes in appropriate formats.

Plan, organise and prioritise workload, modify behaviour and actions appropriately whilst acknowledging and evaluating the impact of their actions on themselves and others in a clinical setting.

Communicate effectively with different groups of service users, carers, practice educator and members of the interprofessional team to seek advice and refer appropriately, using a wide range of communication skills (verbal, written and listening) to share and receive information, and modify communication styles to meet the different needs. 

Demonstrate the awareness of values and attitudes required of a physiotherapist, including professionalism, compassion, caring, altruism, advocacy, commitment to excellence, social responsibility, honesty & integrity, patient safety, fitness to practice, and team working.

Identify personal professional development needs, develop, and engage in a variety of learning and development opportunities available to them and reflect on the learning process. 

Engage in seeking feedback, help and support from multiple sources, and reflect on the feedback and modify personal and professional behaviour appropriately.

Identify determinants of population health and the impact of health inequalities within populations seen in a placement setting and promotion of inclusion and belonging.

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Textbooks

Kenyon, K. and Kenyon, J. (2018). The physiotherapist’s pocketbook: essential facts at your fingertips. 3rd edition. Edinburgh: Elsevier.

Cross, J., Broad, M. A., Quint, M. J., Ritson, P. and Thomas, S. (eds) (2020) Respiratory physiotherapy pocketbook: an on-call survival guide. Third edition. Edinburgh: Elsevier. 

Lennon, S., Ramdharry, G., Verheyden, G. (2018). Neurological Physiotherapy Pocketbook. 2nd edition. Edinburgh: Elsevier.

Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions E-Book, edited by Joy Higgs, et al., Elsevier Health Sciences, 2008. 

White, Sue, et al. Critical Reflection in Health and Social Care, McGraw-Hill Education, 2006.

Journal Articles

Atkinson HL, Nixon-Cave K. (2011). A tool for clinical reasoning and reflection using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework and patient management model. Phys Ther. 91:416 – 430 

Donaghy, M. and Morss, K. (2000). Guided reflection: A framework to facilitate and assess reflective practice within the discipline of physiotherapy. Physiotherapy Theory & Practice. 16, (1), 3-14. 

A good article for understanding what reflection and reflective practice is in physiotherapy education and the healthcare setting.

Publications

CHARTERED SOCIETY OF PHYSIOTHERAPY, (2013). Quality Assurance standards for physiotherapy service delivery. London: CSP

HEALTH & CARE PROFESSIONS COUNCIL, (2016). Standards of conduct, performance, and ethics. London: HCPC.

CHARTERED SOCIETY OF PHYSIOTHERAPY CSP (2011). Physiotherapy Framework: putting physiotherapy behaviours, values, knowledge & skills into practice [updated May 2020]

HEALTH & CARE PROFESSIONS COUNCIL, (2023). Standards of Proficiency (Physiotherapy) London: HCPC.