Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

• Unit Title

  Clinical Practicum 2

• Unit Code

  SPE3108

• Year

  2020

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  3

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

• Unit Coordinator

  Mrs Michelle Louise O'DONNELL

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Description

In this unit, students will gain valuable clinical experience in a community or hospital facility. Students will attend a health or educational facility throughout the semester to observe and carry out clinical work involving assessment, intervention planning and implementation with clients, their families, and relevant professionals under supervision. Teamwork will be an integral part of the practicum. Clinical placements may have a focus on either adult or paediatric communication and/or swallowing disorders. Students will work with clients from a range of cultural backgrounds. Students will further evaluate their own skills against the units of competency and develop reflective practice. In this unit, students will work with the opposite caseload to pre-requisite unit SPE3107 (i.e. adults or children).

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Off-campus: supervised clinical practicum. On-campus: practicum preparation, simulation and clinical tutorials, including some preparation in weeks outside of the normal semester.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed SPE3107

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must be enrolled in Y02

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Perform in the intermediate range of competency on the COMPASS National Clinical Evaluation Tool.
2. Apply clinical reasoning to interpret communication disorders in unseen patients.
3. Present evidence to demonstrate clinical performance.
4. Build personal and professional career development capabilities through self-reflection, planning and goal setting activities.

Unit Content

1. Life-long learning and learning contracts.
2. Assessment of communication and/or swallowing disorders.
3. Treatment of communication and/or swallowing disorders.
4. Clinical reasoning.
5. Goal setting.
6. Reflective practice.
7. Peer review of clinical skills.
8. Professional writing of assessment plans, treatment plans and reports.
9. Development and sharing of clinical resources.
10. Cultural and linguistic diversity.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

WIL - Internship, Clinical or Professional placement (off-campus)

Work done in an actual workplace in which the student applies discipline-specific knowledge and skills, supervised by an industry professional separate from an ECU campus or location.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students must complete a supervised clinical practicum that is 10-12 days long, in an appointed work environment within a public, private or non-profit organisation. Students participate in group discussion, case studies and learning activities to consolidate learning. The placement will be supplemented with regular clinical tutorials to assist in student preparation for the placement and to provide a venue for discussion of clinical reasoning skills and professional practice, including verbal and written communication with clients and other professionals. Students complete simulation experiences to develop clinical skills.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

• Carroll, M., & Gilbert, M. C. (2011). On being a supervisee: Creating learning partnerships  . (2nd ed.). Kew, Victoria: PsychOz Publications. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/755002090?databaseList=638

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