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Clinical Practice in Adult Physiotherapy 1Laajuus (7 cr)

Code: KG00CA37

Objective

Students will
- practise the assessment of the working population to learn to detect dysfunction,
- learn to plan and use various physiotherapy tools to maintain and promote functional capacity
- evaluate their own actions in individual and group therapy,
- gain further practice in therapeutic training to be able to evaluate the appropriateness of the exercises and, if necessary, to choose a different approach,
- advance their collaboration and interaction skills with patients, families and other staff members,
- learn to use various techniques for acquiring information, and
- pay attention to ergonomics in all areas of their work.

Content

To be announced at the beginning of the course.

Qualifications

No previous studies are required.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Pass
Students return and pass their assignments on time. They manage the (group or individual) client situations assigned to them with help of theoretical knowledge they have learnt. Students attend to personal and patient safety. They know how to receive feedback and are mostly able to change their action accordingly. In their interaction they take other people into consideration.

Fail
Students are unable to justify their action with theoretical knowledge and their work is inconsistent. Their personal and patient safety may be jeopardised. Students avoid counselling situations, they do not make use of feedback and their study motivation is poor. Their interaction is clumsy and they fail to follow common rules. Students are engaged in other activities, which affects their studies. They fail to deliver some assignments and they are often absent.

Materials

To be announced at the beginning of the course

Enrollment

17.04.2023 - 11.10.2023

Timing

23.10.2023 - 17.12.2023

Credits

7 op

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Degree programmes
  • Bachelor of Health Care, Physiotherapy
Teachers
  • Riku Uusi-Jaakkola
  • Jutta Potila
  • Tarja Svahn
Student groups
  • FYS22
    Degree Programme in Physiotherapy, Full-time studies

Objective

Students will
- practise the assessment of the working population to learn to detect dysfunction,
- learn to plan and use various physiotherapy tools to maintain and promote functional capacity
- evaluate their own actions in individual and group therapy,
- gain further practice in therapeutic training to be able to evaluate the appropriateness of the exercises and, if necessary, to choose a different approach,
- advance their collaboration and interaction skills with patients, families and other staff members,
- learn to use various techniques for acquiring information, and
- pay attention to ergonomics in all areas of their work.

Content

To be announced at the beginning of the course.

Materials

To be announced at the beginning of the course

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Pass
Students return and pass their assignments on time. They manage the (group or individual) client situations assigned to them with help of theoretical knowledge they have learnt. Students attend to personal and patient safety. They know how to receive feedback and are mostly able to change their action accordingly. In their interaction they take other people into consideration.

Fail
Students are unable to justify their action with theoretical knowledge and their work is inconsistent. Their personal and patient safety may be jeopardised. Students avoid counselling situations, they do not make use of feedback and their study motivation is poor. Their interaction is clumsy and they fail to follow common rules. Students are engaged in other activities, which affects their studies. They fail to deliver some assignments and they are often absent.

Qualifications

No previous studies are required.

Enrollment

16.04.2022 - 12.10.2022

Timing

07.11.2022 - 16.12.2022

Credits

7 op

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Degree programmes
  • Bachelor of Health Care, Physiotherapy
Teachers
  • Maija Hiltunen
  • Pirkko Mäntykivi
  • Riku Uusi-Jaakkola
  • Jutta Potila
  • Pia Haapala
  • Tarja Svahn
Student groups
  • FYS21

Objective

Students will
- practise the assessment of the working population to learn to detect dysfunction,
- learn to plan and use various physiotherapy tools to maintain and promote functional capacity
- evaluate their own actions in individual and group therapy,
- gain further practice in therapeutic training to be able to evaluate the appropriateness of the exercises and, if necessary, to choose a different approach,
- advance their collaboration and interaction skills with patients, families and other staff members,
- learn to use various techniques for acquiring information, and
- pay attention to ergonomics in all areas of their work.

Content

To be announced at the beginning of the course.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Pass
Students return and pass their assignments on time. They manage the (group or individual) client situations assigned to them with help of theoretical knowledge they have learnt. Students attend to personal and patient safety. They know how to receive feedback and are mostly able to change their action accordingly. In their interaction they take other people into consideration.

Fail
Students are unable to justify their action with theoretical knowledge and their work is inconsistent. Their personal and patient safety may be jeopardised. Students avoid counselling situations, they do not make use of feedback and their study motivation is poor. Their interaction is clumsy and they fail to follow common rules. Students are engaged in other activities, which affects their studies. They fail to deliver some assignments and they are often absent.

Qualifications

No previous studies are required.