Unit rationale, description and aim
Physiotherapy practice needs to be responsive to an ever changing social, political, health and workplace environment. Graduates entering the workforce will need to be prepared for this dynamic environment through developing capabilities in working in a commercial environment, and to understand legal, regulatory and funding issues effecting healthcare delivery. Graduates need to be aware of their local and global professional responsibilities and the need to provide effective and sustained physiotherapy services that can be delivered in high and low resource settings.
This unit contains a learning outcome from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework (HCF, 2014) specifically addressing the HCF learning capability of Self-reflexivity (HCF11.3)(LO4). Students will use their experiences throughout their Year 4 physiotherapy clinical placements to reflect on their knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, to reflect on their own expectations and to identify how well the healthcare setting(s) they are/have been working in create a welcoming cultural space.The overarching aim of this unit is to recognise and be responsive to workforce and practice changes.