Summary of content

This module aims to develop the critical and professional reasoning and decision-making skills of learners to facilitate them to develop into future practitioners who can work within the complexities of health and social care. The module supports learners to integrate knowledge, skills and attitudes required of professional practice embedded within the stipulated expectations of the Royal College of Occupational Therapy and Health and Care Professions Council standards. The module will support learners to engage critically with frameworks for professional reasoning and complex decision making, underpinned by ethical theories and principles of ethical practice. This module will centralise the learners professional reasoning within occupation focused practice to ensure that students learn professional reasoning and decision making that is located within occupational therapy’s unique contribution to health and wellbeing; occupation. Ultimately, this module will synthesise the knowledge and skills the learners have acquired to date and combine this with the values, behaviours and knowledge to identify professional and ethical issues to then make justified and evidenced professional decisions. This will facilitate the learners to develop to become ethical, safe and effective occupation focused future occupational therapists.

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