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CSCD4059: Advanced Practice B: Clinical

2022 unit information

Students manage a client caseload and participate in a variety of clinical management and service activities within the on-campus clinic. Students also participate in a clinical mentoring experience with novice/intermediate students. Students are responsible for supporting and facilitating the learning of the novice/intermediate students. They participate in supervisory conferences with their clinical educators and peers. Students are expected to demonstrate competency in professional communication skills, team work and effective time management, as well as overall client management. To be eligible to receive a pass in this unit of study, students must have satisfactorily completed their portfolios for demonstrating competency for professional association membership upon graduation.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Medicine and Health

Study level Undergraduate
Academic unit Communication Sciences
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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CSCD3082 and (CSCD3083 or CSCD3084)
Corequisites:
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CSCD4052 and CSCD4060
Prohibitions:
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None
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. At the completion of this unit, students should demonstrate competency at Entry level as specified in the COMPASS® Technical Manual. That is: • Perform the majority of his/her work independently and competently • Seek support if the situation is new or a number of features about the client or workplace setting combine to create complexity • Identify the meaningful aspects of problems and integrate these to generate a number of logically possible conclusions. Conclusions/actions will be modified with new information • Prioritise appropriately • Be sufficiently automatic and maintain a focus on the client or situation • Carry out his/her work in an efficient and timely manner. Source: McAllister, S., Lincoln, M., Ferguson, A., & McAllister, L. (2013).(2nd Ed) COMPASS® (Competency Assessment in Speech Pathology) assessment booklet and resource manual. Melbourne: Speech Pathology Australia.

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 Early 2020
Professional practice Cumberland, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Semester 2 2021
Professional practice Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2022
Professional practice Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney

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