module specification

Practice Education 6: Consolidating Clinical Practice 3 is the sixth practice education module and include the final level 6 placement in the final year. 

The module will give students an opportunity to consider their overall practice development and identify a specialist area of practice they would like to experience to extend their limit of practice for their future career aspirations. 

Students will be supported to plan, seek, and attend an elective placement in their self-selected specialist area to complement their clinical skills profile to boost their employability after graduation. Placements options such as specialist, leadership, service improvement, public health, etc will be discussed with students to consider for their elective placement.

Pre-requisite: All level 5 modules

Co-requisites: PT6000, PT6P01, PT6050 PT6W51, PT6W52

Available for Study Abroad? NO

Knowledge 

Practice education settings 

Physiotherapy skills framework 

Clinical placement assessment form 

SWOC analysis 

Personal development plan 

Professional practice, standards, policies, and procedures 

Advanced models of clinical reasoning

Actions to maintain health and fitness to practice including seeking help.

Health and safety policies related to placement site.

Mandatory training including movement and handling policy, basic life support, information governance, safeguarding adults and children.

Risk assessment of practice setting

Skills 

Professionalism: Application of safe practice including mandatory training and protocols.  

Care, compassion respect and empathy.  

Team working, time management, administrative duties, organisation. 

Clinical skills: Assessment, treatment, and management of service users. Clinical reasoning, problem solving, enablement and goal setting.  

Use of relevant professional documentation.  

Shared decision making.  

Transferring knowledge and skills from academic modules and the available evidence base to support practice. 

Sustainability and inclusivity.  

Communication with service users, educators, tutors, interdisciplinary team 

members, support staff and other relevant parties.  

Personal development: Reflection, personal and professional development and learning opportunities, contracts, guidance on job application and selection processes. 

Adopting strategies to support own physical health and mental self-care.

Select appropriate safety equipment at practice site

Select hazard control equipment.

Attitude 

Behave ethically and with integrity. 

Respect for all patients, promoting diversity, acknowledging patients’ rights include refusal of treatment. 

Appreciation and enthusiasm for life-long learning 

Independent and critical approach to learning 

Understand own limitations. 

Maximise benefits derived from various learning opportunities. 

Maintaining mental health

This module utilises experiential learning approaches of five-day a week clinical placement in practice education settings for 5 weeks (block placement). 

During placements, students will learn through clinical and reflective practice under the supervision of practice educators and participate in clinical de-briefs with academic tutors in the University. 

At the end of the module, students should: 

Critically reflect on own practice development to identify a specialist area that would complement their clinical profile and enhance their continuing professional development and employability for their elective placement.

Engage with a plan for continuing professional development of their limit of practice by securing and attending a contemporary practice setting that would support this plan in an elective placement. 

Consistently practice as an autonomous Physiotherapist within own scope of practice to gather and interpret relevant and detailed information from clinical assessments to understand common problems presented by different groups of service users. 

Consistently demonstrate safe and effective evidence-based practice within own scope of practice in a specialist clinical practice area including maintenance of own fitness to practice, interprofessional working, professionalism, interpersonal skills, clinical reasoning, treatment/management, monitoring, evaluation with appropriate outcome measures, record keeping and quality assurance. 

Critically apply key theoretical perspectives under-pinning effective evidence-based physiotherapy practice including assessment, management, and advanced clinical reasoning in a specialist practice setting.

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Textbooks 

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. 

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. 

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.  

Publications 

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

HEALTH & CARE PROFESSIONS COUNCIL, (2024). Standards of conduct, performance, and ethics. London: HCPC. 

HEALTH & CARE PROFESSIONS COUNCIL, (2017). Continuing professional development and your registration: HCPC. 

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

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