Course Title: Make referrals to other health care professionals when appropriate
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2015
Course Code: OFFC5274C
Course Title: Make referrals to other health care professionals when appropriate
School: 155T Vocational Health and Sciences
Campus: City Campus
Program: C4319 - Certificate IV in Massage Therapy Practice
Course Contact: Joshua Davies
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4333
Course Contact Email: joshua.davies@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Paul Bailey
paul.baily@rmit.edu.au
99254861
Nominal Hours: 40
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
This course is delivered concurrently with the following courses:
BSBCWOR203B Work effectively with others
HLTCOM405D Administer a practice
HLTCOM404C Communicate effectively with clients
HLTHIR301C Communicate and work effectively in health
Course Description
This course describes the skills and knowledge required to arrange referrals to other health care professionals when required.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
HLTCOM406C Make referrals to other health care professionals when appropriate |
Element: |
1. Formulate a referral plan for client requiring further treatment |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Determine need for referral to other health care professionals services |
Element: |
2. Interact with other health care professionals |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Identify a range of complementary health care professionals and services |
Element: |
3. Arrange a referral to an appropriate source for clients with specific needs |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Contact the health care professional and/or service to whom clients are to be referred |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
All class learning materials, notes and other key learning resources can be accessed via myRMIT at www.rmit.edu.au/learninghub.
A combination of activities will support student’s learning in this course, such as:
• Face-to-face &/or online lectures to cover theoretical and practical concepts for each topic in the course
• Students will learn to apply their skills and knowledge to work integrated learning (WIL) in the student & clinical practice environment, during simulations and classroom based learning
• Work experience &/or placements observation of performance in the workplace will be a valuable part of your learning experience
• Tutorial activities (individually and in teams) to discuss, debate, critique and consolidate your ideas and extend your understanding around key concepts within specific topics
• Online discussions and activities to support and collaborate with other students in your course and debate and discuss ideas
• Utilise and develop critical research and cognitive skills to find credible sources of health information
• Self-directed study time (eg. readings or activities around theory) to enhance and strengthen your knowledge and understanding of theoretical concepts
• To further facilitate learning students are strongly encouraged to use a range of communication tools between themselves and their course instructor as well as between themselves and fellow students by using the online learning platform
• It is strongly recommended that students partner up with fellow students in order to practice assessment, treatment and palpation techniques
Teaching Schedule
Week 6 17/3/15 - The organisation of work and workplace culture
Week 7 24/3/15 - Professionalism
Week 8 31/3/15 - Working in teams
Week 9 14/4/15 - Client services
Week 10 21/4/15 - Basic helping skills
Week 11 28/4/15 - Change management
Week 12 05/5/15 - Managing the self
Week 13 12/5/15 - Administration services
Week 14 19/5/15 - Managing your workload
Week 15 26/5/15 - Financial recods
Week 16 02/6/15 - Stock Procedures
Week 17 09/6/15 - Assessments
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Biel, A 2005 Trail guide to the body, Books of Discovery, CO, USA |
978-0-9658534 |
References
Other Resources
Overview of Learning Resources
Students will be expected to utilise a range of recent and appropriate library, electronic, text and other resources.
Students will be provided with resources and tools for leaning in this course through myRMIT.
Readings given in class times and relevant literature as it comes to hand are important in order to maintain an up to date knowledge of the industry.
Overview of Assessment
Assessment for this course forms part of the Cert IV in Massage Therapy Practice.
Assessment is typically based around written and/or online tests, assignments, reflective journals, evidence portfolio’s, logbooks and/or practical demonstrations.
Assessment may also take place in a simulated work situation such as a supervised student clinic.
Competency based training requires the student to be in attendance in order for assessment to be undertaken.
Assessment is undertaken through successful completion of all assessment activities and classroom, project & industry participation.
Assessments are spaced across the duration of the course, in order for your teacher to provide you with progressive feedback.
Feedback will be provided throughout the semester in class and/or online discussions, through individual and group feedback on practical exercises and by individual consultation.
If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or the Disability Liaison Unit if you would like to find out more.
An RMIT assessment charter (http://mams.rmit.edu.au/kh6a3ly2wi2h1.pdf) summarises your responsibilities as an RMIT student as well as those of your teachers.
Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies and procedures which are described and referenced in a single document, the Assessment policies and procedures manual (http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=ln1kd66y87rc).
Assessment Tasks
Attendance and participation:
Competency based training requires the student to be in attendance in order for assessment to be undertaken.
Final assessment in this course is a combination of a number of "formative" assessments.
To achieve competency in this course students need to successfully complete and achieve sufficiency in ALL of these formative assessments.
Please refer to RMIT’s assessment policy for more details:
http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse/Staff%2FAdministration%2FPolicies%20and%20procedures%2FAcademic%20and%20research%2FAssessment%2FAssessment%20policy/ (unresolved)
Should a student be unable to attend an assessment or require an extension to a due date please refer to the following webpage: http://www.rmit.edu.au/students/specialconsideration
Direct credit transfer and RPL:
Direct credit transfer is available to students who have already completed the same or similar courses. Recognition of prior learning is available to students who have relevant prior skills or experience. Please refer to http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=8u7jborsx9dy (unresolved)
Work submitted for assessment:
Assessments that require work to be submitted must be handed in by the due date designated by the course instructor.
Assessment Tasks
1. Successful Completion of Shifts and Practical Checklist sign off:
Each student is required to successfully complete all 13 rostered clinic shifts (signed off by the supervisor). Students must follow the guidelines outlined in the clinic manual in relation to changing shifts and absences. Students will need to put their theory into action and have their observation checklist checked off and signed by the clinic supervisor.
Due: 18 June 2015
2. Clinical Practice Portfolio:
Students are required to collate a folio of their learning materials and activities. Throughout the course class notes will contain learning activities for students to complete. Responses to these activities must be submitted as a hard copy, with notes printed and placed in a folder and handed in or submitted electronically. This folder should contain all subject notes, including completed learning activities, and will be submitted on:
Due: 1 June 2015
3. Reflective Journal:
Students are required to write a reflective piece of writing based on their experiences in the student clinic. There are two topics that must be reflected upon:
Details of the due date for each assessment item are included in this course guide and are in the Course Schedule in myRMIT (Blackboard).
Students are expected to prepare all assignments and other written work in a professional manner. More information on general academic study and writing skills can be found on the “Learning Lab” http://emedia.rmit.edu.au/learninglab/
All work submitted for assessment must be submitted electronically.
Harvard style is used for all referencing and for bibliography.
Care must be taken to reference all work correctly and to avoid plagiarism. Be sure not to plagiarise unintentionally.
Students must keep a copy of all submitted assessments including electronic copies.
4. Referral Letter:
Students are required to write a referral letter to a health care professional in relation to a Case Study given
Due 19 May 2015
Penalties for late submission:
All assignments will be marked as if submitted on time then the mark awarded will be reduced by 10% for each day (or part of a day) it is late, unless an extension is approved.
Assignments that are late will not be marked and will be awarded zero marks (unless prior extension has been requested and approved. Please refer to http://www.rmit.edu.au/students/assessment/extension
Assessment Result Information:
All students will receive a CA (Competentency Achieved for the assessment), an NYC (Not Yet Competent for the assessment) or a DNS (Did Not Submit for the assessment).
Students must receive CA grades for all assessments in order to receive an overall competent mark for the course.
In order to gain competency in this course, students must complete ALL pieces of assessment AND receive CA (Competency Achieved) grades for all assessments.
Assessment Matrix
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