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Interprofessional Health Clinic

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" [1]. The Interprofessional Health Clinic has been established as a holistic community health service to provide access to essential services, re-engaging individuals in health support or those who are not catered to by current available services.

This clinic is operated by the School of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), Ipswich Campus. The clinic offers services delivered by health students participating in placement as part of their degree at UniSQ. All services and students are supervised by experienced and qualified health professionals.

Interprofessional education (IPE) is defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as an experience that “occurs when students from two or more professions learn about, from, and with each other” [2]. This clinic has been established to provide quality interprofessional student learning experiences across our health programs and contribute to building a sustainable, high-quality rural and remote health workforce to support our local and surrounding communities.

Through inclusive community engagement and collaboration, UniSQ strives to build upon existing health infrastructure to deliver services to support positive health outcomes for you and your family.

[1] WHO. Constitution of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. 2024. Available from https://www.who.int/about/accountability/governance/constitution
[2] WHO. Framework for Action on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice. World Health Organization. Human Res Health. 2010. Available from https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/framework-for-action-on-interprofessional-education-collaborative-practice

Services

The Interprofessional Health Clinic offers high quality, low cost, evidence-based services for people of all ages in the community. The range of services offered at the Clinic are designed to screen clients for potential health risks, manage current chronic disease diagnoses, and engage clients in person-specific care to improve health literacy and wellbeing. Our services include:

Current services

This interprofessional service is designed to provide participants with knowledge and skills around emotional and physical wellbeing. Healthy and Active Minds incorporates educational and practical components during each session to support participants to apply these skills in everyday life.

Each session runs from 10:30am to 12pm on Tuesdays (Toowoomba Campus) and Thursdays (Ipswich Campus) and is offered via telehealth in both locations. Participants can register for this service over the full 6 weeks, or alternatively register for single sessions.

The topics facilitated each week include:

Topic 1: Stress Management - Part 1

Stress is a physical and emotional reaction to changes and challenges in our lives. Some levels of stress are helpful, however stress becomes a problem when it is continuous or “chronic”. This type of stress can lead to fatigue, muscle tension, headaches, nausea, and more serious health problems such as hypertension and heart disease.

Topic 2: Stress Management - Part 2

How people’s bodies react to stress is unique for every individual and being a normal part of life, it is important to understand how to identify when you are stressed and learn strategies to manage this.

Topic 3: Beating the Blues

What is Depression? Causes of Depression? What can we do about it?

Mental illness can have an impact on a person’s cognitive, behavioural and social functioning. Those with a mental illness struggle to engage in their regular work, social and physical activities. Exercise is an effective component of management. Doing something is better than doing nothing at all. Let us share ideas on how!

Topic 4: Sleep Tips and Tricks

How much sleep do you normally get per night? Is it enough? Sleep, was long considered just a block of time when your brain and body shut down. Thanks to sleep research studies, it is now understood that certain stages of sleep are needed for us to feel well rested and energetic the next day, and other stages help us learn or make memories.

Topic 5: Mindfulness

Mind Full OR Mindful? Have you ever noticed that when you are doing familiar tasks like cleaning or cooking that your mind is thinking about something else? This is often called being on 'autopilot mode' and not being in touch with the 'here and now'. Mindfulness can be seen as the opposite of being on 'autopilot mode' and experiencing the world in the 'here and now'.

Topic 6: Making the Most of Retirement

What does retirement mean to you? Adjustment – often before entering retirement, you kept to a schedule, now you are free to structure your day as you please. Isolation – Humans are social creatures. How are you engaged with friends and family now? Social contribution – Who says you have to fully retire? Engage in volunteering doing the activities you choose to do and enjoy!

The Exercise Physiology Clinic is working in collaboration with the Interprofessional Health Clinic to offer internal clients an additional avenue to engage in student-led group exercises services as a means of increasing frequency of exercise. This can be viewed as an additional step offered to clients in supporting their transition into the community. Due to the stable/managed nature of these clients, this also presents an interprofessional opportunity for health students within other disciplines to undertake group-base exercise placement activities.

For more information, please visit the ‘UniSQ Clinics: Exercise Physiology Clinic’ webpage.

Regular ‘Health Checks’ can identify signs of current or emerging medical concerns. This service offers a general screening of health with the aim of identifying lifestyle risk for conditions such as heart disease, kidney disease, and type 2 diabetes. You will also gain practical tips on how you can lower your modifiable risk factors for improved general health and overall wellbeing.

Services coming soon

Interprofessional Health Services offered at the Clinic are designed to screen clients for potential health risks, manage current chronic disease diagnoses, and engage clients in a person-specific healthcare plan to improve health, health literacy and wellbeing. These care plans are delivered by various disciplines over a 12-week period.

The Interprofessional Health Clinic - Child and Youth Service will include a service for children and adolescents to provide relevant assessment and time-limited, goal-driven intervention. This may include both individual and group-based interventions, and education sessions.
Depending on the individual client needs, clients will be able to access interprofessional and discipline-specific assessment (when required) to inform ongoing goal-driven intervention.

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Children, adolescents and families.
  • Who either do not have a formal diagnosis, or do not have access to funded services through schemes such as NDIS.
  • Complex or acute care needs at risk of requiring specialised medical care whilst engaging in clinical activities.

STRIDE is a 12-week, individually tailored exercise program, designed by the University of Western Australia, which targets students and community members suffering mental health difficulties. This program fosters a mentee-mentor partnership to utilise exercise in managing or alleviating any mental health distress and to target person-centred goals participants may have.

Fees

Healthy and Active Minds (HAMs)

Single Session $5.00
OR
All six (6 weeks) sessions $30.0

Inter-UniSQ Clinics Group Exercise

$5.00 (Internal Referral ONLY)

Health Check

$15.00

Speech Pathology Service
(9 sessions on Thursdays over 12 weeks; SELECTED DATES)

$50.00
*includes Speech Pathology Summary Report

Client referrals

The clinic welcomes referrals from all sources including self-referrals. Referrals should be addressed to InterprofessionalHealthClinic@unisq.edu.au or sent via the below online referral forms:
If you would like to refer to our current services (see list above), please complete the below referral form:

If you would like to express your interest in our services coming soon (see list above), please complete the below EOI:

PLEASE NOTE: When individual service capacity has been reached, or a service is not yet offered, participants will be placed on a waitlist and contacted once a position becomes available.

Clinic hours

By appointment only.

Location

The Interprofessional Health Clinic is located in Building B at UniSQ Ipswich.

Address:        

 

 

Building B, Level 3
University of Southern Queensland
11 Salisbury Road
Ipswich QLD 4305

Parking is available for patients in front of the clinic in car park 1. The clinic has disabled friendly access with facilities and parking nearby.

The clinic is also accessible via public transport – bus 515 from Yamanto and Brassall.

For further information or to make an appointment:

Phone: 07 3812 6388 

Email: InterprofessionalHealthClinic@unisq.edu.au