Course Title: Manage a practice
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2011
Course Code: EMPL5525C
Course Title: Manage a practice
School: 155T Vocational Health and Sciences
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5207 - Diploma of Remedial Massage
Course Contact: Priya Atkinson
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4212
Course Contact Email: priya.atkinson@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Nominal Hours: 50
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
There are no requirements for this unit
Course Description
This unit of competency describes the skills and knowledge required to manage a clinical health practice according to the size and scale of the business
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
HLTCOM503B Manage a practice |
Element: |
1. Establish the practice |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Prepare a business plan |
Element: |
2. Implement financial management procedures |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Manage the finances of the business are managed |
Element: |
3. Implement practice management strategies |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Implement operational strategies |
Element: |
4. Implement personnel management strategies |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Implement support strategies to support self |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
This unit is delivered in the subject cluster: Business & Communication for Clinical Practice. Students will have a variety of face to face, online and work-based learning activities, including a fortnightly shift in the Student Massage Clinic at RMIT University.
Teaching Schedule
This unit is delivered in the subject cluster: Business & Communication for Clinical Practice. Along with the lesson schedule below, students are also required to attend a fortnightly clinic shift. The clinic roster is available on the learning hub.
| Date | Topic | Details |
| 9/5/11 | Communication Skills 2 | Barriers to Effective Communication & Roll Plays |
| 16/5/11 | Communication Skills 3 | Online: Managing Conflict |
| 30/5/11 | Client Behaviors | Identifying challenging client behaviors and understanding how to manage them. |
| 11/7/11 | Small Business | Business Structures, Planning & SWOT Analysis. |
| 18/7/11 | Financial Requirements | Online: The cost of doing buisness, setting up a clinic, invoicing & receipts. |
| 25/7/11 | Professional Development | Goal setting, managing critical feedback and creating an action plan for development. |
| 1/8/11 | Writing a Business Plan | Online: How to write a Business Plan |
| 8/8/11 | Law & Ethics in Clinical Practice | How to handle tricky situations |
| 15/8/11 | Marketing | Online: How to Market your Business |
| 22/8/11 | Reflect on Personal Practices | Online: Self-Evaluation and working with others |
| 12/9/11 | Setting Up for Practice | Requirements for practice, the role of professional associations & how to join one |
| 19/9/11 | Working in Industry | Online: Common practices for employment of Massage Therapists. |
| 26/9/11 | Personnel Management 1 | Online: Employing people |
| 3/10/11 | Personnel Management 2 | Online: Planning & Managing Meetings |
| 10/10/11 | Personnel Management 3 | Online: Communicating with your employers / employees |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Learning materials for this unit are available on the learning hub, in the subject folder "Business & Communication for Clinical Practice".
From time to time you will be asked to access other resources, including websites and journals. Information on these additional resources will be published on the learning hub.
Overview of Assessment
Assessment may consist of examinations, quizzes, practical demonstration, work based assessment or simulation, submission of your learning and assessment guide and assignments. Observation of skills in a supervised work place such as the RMIT Student Myotherapy Clinic is an essential element of assessment .
Assessment Tasks
PLEASE NOTE:
- This unit is assessed in conjunction with others in the subject Business & Communications for Clinical Practice.
- In order to successfully complete this unit, you must be assessed as competent for each the of the assessment items detailed below.
- Complete details, including assessment criteria, for each of the assessment tasks outlined below will be provided on the learning hub.
There is a list of key skills and competencies that students must successfully demonstrate throughout their time in clinic. When a student is observed competently employing these skills the clinic supervisor is to sign off their checklist. The checklist will be maintained in the student clinic, and your progress checked following each rotation. All tasks must be completed by the end of your last rostered clinic shift.
Task 2: Clinical Practice Portfolio:
Students are required to collate a folio of their learning materials and activities. Throughout the year class notes will contain learning activities for students to complete. Responses to each of these activities must be submitted as a hard copy, with notes printed and placed in a folder. This folder should contain all subject notes, including completed learning activities, and will be submitted on 30th May, 2011 & 24th October, 2011
Task 3: Business Plan:
Students are required to write a business plan. Due: 17th October, 2011
Assessment Matrix
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