Placement Attendance: Students are required to attend all days of placement during the allocated block, as well as pre-placement briefing and post placement briefing classes.  Attendance is mandatory as the hours contribute to the 1000 hours of clinical placement.  It is the expectation that students will attend in person / face to face for the placement during the allocated block, as well as pre-placement briefing and post placement briefing classes, unless otherwise indicated.  Students should follow special consideration procedures if they are unable to attend mandatory / compulsory classes for placement.

Letter of Introduction: Students are required to contact their placement site with a letter of introduction using the template provided, and a covering email. Students are required to have a peer from their learning team audit the letter using the checklist provided prior to sending.  The letter is to be submitted on Canvas.

Activity Summary Form: Students must maintain a summary of their placement activities in Sonia.  This includes contact details of clinical educator / supervisor, types of experiences and timesheets.  This should accurately reflect all fieldwork attendance activities as per attendance requirements and guidelines and submitted by the due date. Attendance records may be taken, and audits and verifications of hours entered in timesheets will be conducted. Falsely declaring information on attendance records or timesheets is unprofessional behaviour and may represent serious misconduct. Students are to declare on Canvas that they have met the required hours for the unit.

Student Practice Evaluation Form – Revised (2nd edition): Using the SPEF-R2, students and educators will each evaluate students’ demonstration of professional skills, knowledge, and attributes during their clinical placement. This is completed midway through placement and at the end.  Students are required to submit the midway and final SPEF-R2 (completed by their educator) to Canvas in the appropriate assignment boxes for academics to review.   

Learning Plan: Students must develop their learning plan using the template, prior to placement.  There should be 4 goals and at least 2 learning activties for each.  Submit this plan to Canvas.   Students should then discuss their learning plan, goals and activties with their supervisor at the start of placement and make necessary adjustments.  Students should implement the learning plan and be signed off by the placement supervisor at the end of the placement.  Students also complete a short learning plan reflection. The completed Learning Plan and reflection should be submitted to Canvas. Note: Further adjustments to the learning plan may be needed after the midway SPEF-R2 evaluation.

Clinical Placement Reflection: Students are required to submit a 1000-word reflection task, focusing on their learnings, reflections and strategies used on placement to develop and enhance therapeutic relationships with patient / clients / service users, families and other significant others. This will be submitted to Canvas.

Interprofessional Learning (IPL) Activties: Students will complete an interprofessional learning module (via their online learning platform – Canvas). Students will complete the learning activities associate with either:

• Interprofessional Observational Experience or

• Patient / Client Experience of Interprofessional Care

Students will need to plan these IPL activties with their supervisor on placement. Students will submit their completed IPL module worksheets, some short answer questions and a short reflection  to Canvas.