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PTY-30098 - Module Specification
School of Allied Health Professions
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

For academic year: 2023/24 Last Updated: 13 February 2024

PTY-30098 - P&O Practice Placement 4
Coordinator: Rebecca Green
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 6
Credits: 0
Study Hours: 120
School Office:

Programme/Approved Electives for 2023/24

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2023/24


Aims
This module aims to:
Provide students with another opportunity through a P&O practice placement to further develop and refine their communication
Apply their comprehension of the evidence base and skills in both P&O assessment and management approaches.
Develop P&O-specific skills to effectively and efficiently assess and critically evaluate patient/client interventions in a relevant external setting.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Contribute effectively to service user integrated care by evaluating and demonstrating effective communication skills with service users, carers and members of the inter-professional team: 2
Perform and modify (when necessary) an assessment, and subsequently identify a (prioritized) problem list to meet individual service users¿ needs (with supervision appropriate to the student¿s stage of learning): 2
Develop clinical reasoning skills to differentiate between diagnoses, evaluate the P&O evidence base and critically analyse the effectiveness of different P&O interventions: 2
Handle and record service user information in accordance with professional and regulatory body guidance/requirements, placement base policies, legal and ethical frameworks: 2
Pro-actively demonstrate self-management skills by directing and managing own learning on placement; planning, organising and prioritising work/ placement activities as well as more complex tasks: 2
Demonstrate knowledge, understanding and application of the HCPC Guidance on Conduct and Ethics for Students and BAPO Standards of Best Practice.: 2

Study hours

Total hours: 120
Tutor-led hours which includes:
~ 4 hours preparation lectures including, workshops, seminars, tutorials
~ 2 hours placement debrief lectures
- 2 hours guided study
~ 112 hours of placement learning

Students will be encouraged to undertake self-directed study throughout the placement.

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Placement weighted 70%
Criterion Referenced Assessment
The student's comprehension, skills and professional behaviour on P&O Practice Placement 4 is assessed using a criterion referenced form

2: Workbook weighted 30%
Work book of anonymised service user scenarios
The student will further enhance the work book started on Practice Placement POP 2, so that by the end of POP 4, an additional 6 anonymised service user case scenarios will be completed, with particular focus on rehabilitation in P&O and the critical appraisal of evidence associated with innovative P&O assessment/ management approaches.

Please note that for the 2022/23 Academic Year programmes may be adapted to operate in accordance with a flexible, digital approach. This means that there may be some changes made to how modules are delivered and assessed. The latest information will be provided to you by your School in module handbooks. We endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes and details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/student-terms-and-conditions/

Last Updated: 13 February 2024