Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Coffs Harbour | ||
| Gold Coast |
Unit description
Examines the impact of occupational performance limitations on productivity and employment due to physical, cognitive and psychosocial impairments and environmental constraints. Provides the opportunity to develop skills in methods used to assess, maintain, restore and enhance productivity roles.
Unit content
- Paid and unpaid work
- Occupational choice
- Legislation - Workers' Compensation, Workplace Health & Safety; Disability Discrimination
- Workplace assessments and job analyses
- Functional Capacity Evaluations and other work-related assessments
- Return to work plans and injury management
- Case management
- Ergonomics in the workplace
- Prevention of work-related injury/illness (WHS)
- Supported employment options.
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain and apply the process of occupational choice | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | |||||
| 2 | analyse and evaluate productivity occupations | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | ||||
| 3 | evaluate the effects of physical, psychosocial and cognitive impairment on performance in paid and unpaid productivity occupations | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | ||||
| 4 | plan and apply intervention strategies appropriate to paid and unpaid productivity occupations | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 5 | plan therapeutic interventions to facilitate functional performance in productivity considering lifespan development, within a multicultural environment. | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- explain and apply the process of occupational choice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- analyse and evaluate productivity occupations
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- evaluate the effects of physical, psychosocial and cognitive impairment on performance in paid and unpaid productivity occupations
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- plan and apply intervention strategies appropriate to paid and unpaid productivity occupations
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- plan therapeutic interventions to facilitate functional performance in productivity considering lifespan development, within a multicultural environment.
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
Prescribed texts
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Lecture online 1 hours (12 weeks) |
| Laboratory session 3 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Report | 25% |
| Case study | 30% |
| Exam: closed book | 45% |
| Presentation of draft report | SR |
| Teaching method |
| Lecture online 1 hours (12 weeks) |
| Laboratory session 3 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Report | 25% |
| Case study | 30% |
| Exam: closed book | 45% |
| Presentation of draft report | SR |
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Fee paying courses
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International
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