Overview

This unit examines and consolidates the knowledge, skills and evidence to effectively evaluate and manage critically ill patients, gender-specific health and paediatric conditions within the physiotherapy framework. Students will gain an understanding of the role and scope of physiotherapy within an inter-disciplinary team with respect to the management of critically ill patients, gender-specific health and paediatric conditions. This unit also explores the role of technology and digital health in these settings.

Requisites

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Analyse the physical manifestations of critical illness on the neuro-muscular, neurological and cardiorespiratory system
  • Explore and examine men’s and women’s health and paediatric conditions
  • Formulate clinical reasoning with regards to diagnosis and management of critical illness, men’s and women’s health and paediatric conditions within the inter-disciplinary setting
  • Critically review the research evidence surrounding the physiotherapy management of critical illness, men’s and women’s health and paediatric conditions
  • Safely implement evidence-informed physiotherapy interventions on critically ill patients, men’s and women’s health and paediatric conditions within a simulated environment using an appropriate technology
  • Articulate effective and appropriate communication skills for engagement with patients, carers and other stakeholders

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Live Online
Lecture		4.00 6 weeks 24
On-campus
Practical		6.00 6 weeks 36
Specified Activities
Various		15.00 2 weeks 30
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning		10.00 6 weeks 60
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
AssignmentIndividual 40% 1,3,4,5,6 
Practical ExaminationIndividual 30% 1,2,3,4,5 
Practical and Oral ExaminationIndividual 30% 1,2,3,5,6 

Content

  • Critical illness-related physiological changes
  • Radiology in the acute care, paediatric and men’s and women’s health
  • Systematic approaches to the assessment of critically ill individuals
  • Developmental stages across childhood and normal variations
  • Systematic approaches to the assessment of children with musculoskeletal, developmental and neurological conditions
  • Anatomy and physiology relevant to antenatal and postnatal care
  • Structures that contribute to male and female continence and ano-rectal continence across lifespan
  • Technologies that aid diagnosis and physiotherapy management of paediatric and men’s and women’s health conditions
  • Evidence informed outcome measures and clinical tools
  • Graduate Attribute 1 (Communication 1 - Verbal Communication)

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.