HSPT805 – Te Puawaitanga
Module code
HSPT805
Module title
Te Puawaitanga
Prescription
To prepare for the transition process of becoming a work-ready, culturally responsive physiotherapist, including skills for the job application process and understanding management and leadership and the quality assurance process.
Programmes
- HS1902
NZQA Level
Level 8
NZQA Credits
15
Delivery method
- Web-Enhanced
Learning hours
- Total learning hours
- 150
Resources required
- Teaching and Learning Strategy
- May include: Project-based Learning; Flipped Classroom; Blended Learning; Work-integrated Learning; Inclusive Practices.
Methods may include workshops and practical classes, tutorials, case-based learning, inquiry-based learning, group activities & discussion, supported online learning, e-portfolio, practice simulation. - Learning Outcomes
- 1. Critically reflect on the positioning of physiotherapy in contemporary hauora settings.
2. Critically evaluate management and leadership roles in healthcare clinical practice and reflect on own practice in these contexts.
3. Critically evaluate a clinical service using a quality assurance process.
4. Determine professional and interprofessional practice relevant for an entry-level physiotherapist in Aotearoa New Zealand.
5. Develop highly effective communication skills to facilitate successful transition into the physiotherapy workforce. - Content
- - Becoming practice ready to work in a hauora setting and working with Maaori and Pasifika in a primary healthcare setting
- Understand the quality assurance process in clinical practice
- How to design and conduct a clinical audit
- Issues, policies and procedures relevant to physiotherapy practice management in both the private and public sectors, including accreditation of services
- Advanced professional issues, including government legislation, medico-legal and professional code of conduct
- Leadership and Management including leadership styles and workplace culture
- Change management
- Ongoing professional and personal development, peer review, self-reflection and evidence portfolios
- How to successfully enter the workforce
- Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) and private health insurance
- Knowledge and skills for private practice
- How to apply for a job, preparing a resume (CV), addressing selection criteria in the job description
- Career planning, searching for a job, writing resumes and cover letters
- Success at Interview
- Ongoing Professional Competence and continuing professional development (CPD) requirements in New Zealand, professional development plans, peer review, goal setting
- Soft skills for graduate practice
- Registration standards and requirements of registration with Physiotherapy Board of New Zealand - Assessment Criteria
- The portfolio is comprised of multiple components.
Students need to provide evidence against all learning outcomes, and gain an overall mark of 50% to pass this module.
