Pre-Practicum Preparation
At ECU, we have a duty of care to our students and our partners whom are allied to the health disciplines of our University. Practicum safety management is evidence of ECU discharging its duty of care to students, when we place students into health working environments for the purposes of learning and assessment.
What is Pre-Practicum Preparation for Health Students?
ECU intends it to be a process by which any student who anticipates working with clients, in any health/education care setting, for the full duration of the undergraduate or postgraduate program, addressing the risks that they face and are faced with in the practicum environment.
Theses processes will apply to you if you are enrolled in any of the following disciplines of study:
- Clinical Psychology;
- Midwifery;
- Nursing;
- Nutrition and Dietetics;
- Occupational Therapy;
- Paramedicine;
- Physiotherapy;
- Social Science; and
- Speech Pathology.
We encourage you to read all information provided on this site about ECU's duty of care for health disciplines.
Once enrolled, you will be informed at one of your first lectures of the exact safety requirements of your discipline and the process will be explained in further detail.