Unit rationale, description and aim
The Bachelor of Physiotherapy is grounded in the principle of being informed of health-care systems and workplaces that are undergoing constant change and the need to ensure that physiotherapy graduates have developed skills to be flexible and adaptable within this environment. Such changes will present important opportunities for the physiotherapy profession to strengthen its role in providing patient-centred and value-driven care for Australian and global communities. In addition, there is currently a need within the physiotherapy curriculum to develop students who have acquired business acumen, have an awareness of being commercially oriented and able to build relationships in a more competitive healthcare environment. This final capstone unit shifts from acquiring skills of competency to that of developing capability within a professional working environment. Students will explore the impact of legal, regulatory and funding issues on healthcare delivery and become aware of their local and global professional responsibility and the need to provide meaningful 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 Safety and Quality (LO4). The overall aim of this unit is to recognise and be responsive to workforce and practice changes.