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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Clinical Skills for Paramedical Practice 1

  • Unit Code

    PSP1108

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit introduces the students to the fundamental techniques, skills and equipment underpinning professional paramedic practice. Students will apply a step by step systematic approach to scene and patient assessment, developing their skills in primary emergency management processes including pre-hospital basic life support. The fundamental techniques, skills and approaches for professional paramedic practice will be developed in a controlled, simulated, interdisciplinary team environment. The context of professional paramedic practice will be provided in an external placement.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Off-campus students are advised that this unit has a compulsory workshop held at the Joondalup campus. The theory modules for this unit may however be studied online. On-campus and off-campus students are required to undertake an external clinical placement as part of this unit.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from PST1101, PST1108

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PSP1106

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate effective written and oral communication, confidentiality and consent when obtaining and documenting a patient history.
  2. Demonstrate primary emergency management processes and medication administration for sick and injured patients in a pre-hospital setting.
  3. Demonstrate the ability to work as part of a multicultural teamin a profession specific or inter-professional environment.
  4. Demonstrate the fundamental principles of safe work practice including manual handling and infection control in the multicultural pre-hospital setting.
  5. Perform pre-hospital systematic scene and patient assessmentincluding hazard identification and management.
  6. Show practical application of basic life support skills.

Unit Content

  1. Administration of pharmacological interventions for basic life support.
  2. Cross-cultural awareness.
  3. Patient history taking process and documentation.
  4. Primary emergency management processes for sick and injured patients in the pre-hospital setting.
  5. Safe work practices including manual handling, injury minimisation and infection control.
  6. Systematic approach to basic life support in a pre-hospital setting.
  7. Systematic approach to scene and patient assessment in the pre-hospital setting.
  8. The principles and techniques of a professional paramedics role in relation to chain of survival and national and international healthcare systems.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, e-learning, tutorials,and clinical placements.

Assessment

GS4 GRADING SCHEMA 4 Used for undifferentiated pass/fail units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
TestIn-semester quiz
Performance ^Clinical skills assessment
Workshop ^Practical simulation examination 1 (Resuscitation)
Workshop ^Practical simulation examination 2 (Patient Treatment)
Practicum ^Clinical placement report
ONLINE
TypeDescription
TestIn-semester quiz
Performance ^Clinical skills assessment
Workshop ^Practical simulation examination 1 (Resuscitation)
Workshop ^Practical simulation examination 2 (Patient Treatment)
Practicum ^Clinical placement report

^ Mandatory to Pass

Text References

  • ^ Sanders, M. (2012). Mosby's paramedic textbook (4th ed.). St Louis, MO: Elsevier.
  • ^ Caffey, M. (2013). Paramedic and emergency pharmacology guidelines. Frenchs Forest: Pearson
  • ^ Gregory, P., & Mursell, I. (2010). Manual of clinical paramedic procedures. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Australian Resuscitation Council, (2014). Resuscitation guidelines, Retrieved July 22, 2014, from http://www.clinicalguidelines.gov.au/browse.php?pageType=6&organisationCode=205&. Sydney: Australian Resuscitation Council.

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Clinical Skills for Paramedical Practice 1

  • Unit Code

    PSP1108

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit introduces the students to the fundamental techniques, skills and equipment underpinning professional paramedic practice. Students will apply a step by step systematic approach to scene and patient assessment, developing their skills in primary emergency management processes including pre-hospital basic life support. The fundamental techniques, skills and approaches for professional paramedic practice will be developed in a controlled, simulated, interdisciplinary team environment. The context of professional paramedic practice will be provided in an external placement.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Off-campus students are advised that this unit has a compulsory workshop held at the Joondalup campus. The theory modules for this unit may however be studied online. On-campus and off-campus students are required to undertake an external clinical placement as part of this unit.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from PST1101, PST1108

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PSP1106

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate effective written and oral communication, confidentiality and consent when obtaining and documenting a patient history.
  2. Demonstrate primary emergency management processes and medication administration for sick and injured patients in a pre-hospital setting.
  3. Demonstrate the ability to work as part of a multicultural teamin a profession specific or inter-professional environment.
  4. Demonstrate the fundamental principles of safe work practice including manual handling and infection control in the multicultural pre-hospital setting.
  5. Perform pre-hospital systematic scene and patient assessmentincluding hazard identification and management.
  6. Show practical application of basic life support skills.

Unit Content

  1. Administration of pharmacological interventions for basic life support.
  2. Cross-cultural awareness.
  3. Patient history taking process and documentation.
  4. Primary emergency management processes for sick and injured patients in the pre-hospital setting.
  5. Safe work practices including manual handling, injury minimisation and infection control.
  6. Systematic approach to basic life support in a pre-hospital setting.
  7. Systematic approach to scene and patient assessment in the pre-hospital setting.
  8. The principles and techniques of a professional paramedics role in relation to chain of survival and national and international healthcare systems.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, e-learning, tutorials,and clinical placements.

Assessment

GS4 GRADING SCHEMA 4 Used for undifferentiated pass/fail units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
TestIn-semester quiz
Performance ^Clinical skills assessment
Workshop ^Practical simulation examination 1 (Resuscitation)
Workshop ^Practical simulation examination 2 (Patient Treatment)
Practicum ^Clinical placement report
ONLINE
TypeDescription
TestIn-semester quiz
Performance ^Clinical skills assessment
Workshop ^Practical simulation examination 1 (Resuscitation)
Workshop ^Practical simulation examination 2 (Patient Treatment)
Practicum ^Clinical placement report

^ Mandatory to Pass

Text References

  • ^ Sanders, M. (2012). Mosby's paramedic textbook (4th ed.). St Louis, MO: Elsevier.
  • ^ Caffey, M. (2013). Paramedic and emergency pharmacology guidelines. Frenchs Forest: Pearson
  • ^ Gregory, P., & Mursell, I. (2010). Manual of clinical paramedic procedures. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Australian Resuscitation Council, (2014). Resuscitation guidelines, Retrieved July 22, 2014, from http://www.clinicalguidelines.gov.au/browse.php?pageType=6&organisationCode=205&. Sydney: Australian Resuscitation Council.

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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