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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.

Physiotherapy Placements

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