OT223 Policies, procedures and professional standards

Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

1. Organisational policies and procedures
2. Quality standards and operational procedures
3. Professional standards of practice
4. Clinical practice guidelines and protocols
5. Code of professional conduct
6. Confidentiality, privacy and dignity
7. Informed consent
8. Professional relationships
9. Equality and diversity
10. Lifelong learning and continuing professional development
11. Safeguarding equitable service provision
12. Legislative requirements: health, safety, security and risk
13. Organisational formalisation and bureaucratic structures
14. Policies, procedures, protocols and standards
15. Organisation of health, welfare and education services
16. Quality assurance cycle
17. Development and audit of practice standards
18. Clinical practice guidelines, care pathways and protocols
19. Appraisal of standards using quality criteria
20. Professional standards in local, national and international contexts
21. Code of professional conduct and misconduct
22. Confidentiality, disclosure and ethical dilemmas
23. Privacy, dignity and informed consent
24. Teamwork, supervision and conflict resolution
25. Equality, diversity and anti-discriminatory practice
26. Orthopaedic conditions
27. Trauma and fractures
28. Biomechanics
29. Joint range of motion testing
30. Muscle length testing
31. Hand therapy
32. Physical dysfunction practice skills
33. Disability and rehabilitation
34. Medical terminology in orthopaedics

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

What you get for OT223

• Every topic above, split into sessions and dated against your exam.
• Practice questions per session, with answers that explain themselves.
• Offline reading — the whole course is a few hundred KB on your phone.
• An AI tutor that answers questions using this course's own material.