Physiotherapy Placements

This guide is designed to help physiotherapy students prepare for their placements. Placements can be intimidating to the unprepared. This handy pocket-sized book is designed to make your physiotherapy placements more enjoyable and less stressful, to help you get the most out of your practice learning experience.

Before you go 1. Preparing for placement 2. Uniform 3. Absence 4. Professional codes of practice 4.1 HCPC Code of Conduct and Ethics for Students 4.2 CSP Code of Professional Values and Behaviours 5. Person-centred care 6. Raising concerns 7. Consent and confidentiality 8. Guidance on social media Settling in 9. Induction 10. Expectations - working with your educator 11. Communicating with patients and carers 12. Communicating with members of the multidisciplinary team Being there 13. Hygiene and infection control 14. Moving and handling 14.1 Assessing risk with TILE 15. Documentation - SOAP notes 16. Working with patients 16.1 Ward-based placements 16.2 Musculoskeletal outpatients 16.3 Community placement 16.4 Red Flags - indicators for serious pathology 16.5 Clinical reasoning 17. Common medical emergencies 17.1 Basic Life Support (BLS) 17.2 ABCDE assessment 17.3 Falls 17.4 Sepsis 18. Common groups of medications 18.1 Pain medications 19. Pain assessment Moving on 20. Critical reflection and continuing professional development (CPD) 21. FAQs