Dress standards whilst on placement should be appropriate to the functions being performed, occupational health and safety, cultural diversity, local community standards and climate. A uniform may or may not be required.
Ensure you check any additional requirements of your placement’s facility on your arrival.
A student identification badge must be worn and visible at all times.
Professional boundaries are important to ensure that the relationship between a client and a health professional is both safe and helpful. While a professional relationship will follow many everyday courtesies and social conventions, it is very different to an ordinary social relationship or friendship. This is due to the imbalance of power present in all professional relationships that may place the client in a position of vulnerability and put them at risk of exploitation and abuse. Crossing of professional boundaries may occur if a health professional is under involved or over involved in a client’s care, and includes extreme violation of a client’s rights such as the pursuit of a sexual relationship.
The Queensland Health Code of Conduct governs professional boundaries, as do individual professional ethics codes. Click here for a link to the Code of Conduct.
Queensland Health’s policy states students are not permitted to drive Government vehicles, unless authorisation has been obtained from the relevant staff member (Zonal Managers, District Managers, State Managers and Branch Directors, or their delegates).
If students are passengers in a government vehicle, the relevant authorisation needs to be completed and authorised by the above prior to travel.
Click here for a link to the policy. Please note: This is only available from QHEPS, the Queensland Health intranet site.
Click here for the Student Health Professinals Home and Community Visting Policy and
Click here for the Pre Home and Community Visiting Risk Screen (Appendix 1)
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