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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Primary Care Placements
  • Unit Code

    PSP2222
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Thomas Michael CREHAN

Description

Students will develop paramedic skills related to advanced life support, patient assessment, chronic disease management, interprofessional team working and communication in a variety of clinical situations regularly encountered by paramedics. Simulation and work integrated clinical practice will be undertaken within controlled clinical environments and under the supervision of placement staff.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit has a compulsory workshop at Joondalup Campus (Semester 1) and external clinical placements which are offered both in and outside of semester at a time which suits the provider.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed PSP1108

Only students enrolled in K89 can enrol into this unit.

Equivalent Rule

PST2110

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate professional behaviour and paramedic competencies with primary care clinicians and clients
  2. Perform paramedic appropriate pharmacological interventions for advanced life support.
  3. Apply decision-making skills to address clinical problems related to pre-hospital care arising in a primary healthcare setting.
  4. Perform advanced life support and critical care interventions in the primary care and pre-hospital setting.
  5. Evaluate and effectively manage patients in the pre-hospital and primary care setting.

Unit Content

  1. Emergency management processes for advanced life support in the pre-hospital setting.
  2. Assessment of patients which chronic healthcare conditions.
  3. Clinical decision making for patients with complex conditions in the primary healthcare setting.
  4. Administration of pharmacological interventions for advanced life support.
  5. Differential diagnosis and evidence-based treatment of the chronically ill patient.
  6. Application of therapeutic communication skills including cultural and social awareness in an Interprofessional healthcare setting.
  7. Comprehensive patient history taking process and documentation.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Full Year13 x 2 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered
Full Year1 x 8 hour workshopNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

WIL - Internship, Clinical or Professional placement (off-campus)

Students will undertake, and be assessed on, authentic activities through engagement with industry and community partners.

Work done in an actual workplace in which the student applies discipline-specific knowledge and skills, supervised by an industry professional separate from an ECU campus or location.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will engage with primary healthcare and aged care practitioners as part of paramedic clinical placements. Students are required to participate a 2-day workshop (or approved alternative) at Joondalup Campus, and complete 80 hours of practicum placement with aged and primary healthcare providers.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

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.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
ExerciseOnline Learning
Practicum ^2 x Practicum Reports
ONLINE
TypeDescription
ExerciseOnline Learning
Practicum ^2 x Practicum Reports

^ Mandatory to Pass


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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Primary Care Placements
  • Unit Code

    PSP2222
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Thomas Michael CREHAN

Description

Students will develop paramedic skills related to advanced life support, patient assessment, chronic disease management, interprofessional team working and communication in a variety of clinical situations regularly encountered by paramedics. Simulation and work integrated clinical practice will be undertaken within controlled clinical environments and under the supervision of placement staff.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit has a compulsory workshop at Joondalup Campus (Semester 1) and external clinical placements which are offered both in and outside of semester at a time which suits the provider.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed PSP1108

Only students enrolled in K89 can enrol into this unit.

Equivalent Rule

PST2110

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate professional behaviour and paramedic competencies with primary care clinicians and clients
  2. Perform paramedic appropriate pharmacological interventions for advanced life support.
  3. Apply decision-making skills to address clinical problems related to pre-hospital care arising in a primary healthcare setting.
  4. Perform advanced life support and critical care interventions in the primary care and pre-hospital setting.
  5. Evaluate and effectively manage patients in the pre-hospital and primary care setting.

Unit Content

  1. Emergency management processes for advanced life support in the pre-hospital setting.
  2. Assessment of patients which chronic healthcare conditions.
  3. Clinical decision making for patients with complex conditions in the primary healthcare setting.
  4. Administration of pharmacological interventions for advanced life support.
  5. Differential diagnosis and evidence-based treatment of the chronically ill patient.
  6. Application of therapeutic communication skills including cultural and social awareness in an Interprofessional healthcare setting.
  7. Comprehensive patient history taking process and documentation.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Full Year13 x 2 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered
Full Year1 x 8 hour workshopNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

WIL - Internship, Clinical or Professional placement (off-campus)

Students will undertake, and be assessed on, authentic activities through engagement with industry and community partners.

Work done in an actual workplace in which the student applies discipline-specific knowledge and skills, supervised by an industry professional separate from an ECU campus or location.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will engage with primary healthcare and aged care practitioners as part of paramedic clinical placements. Students are required to participate a 2-day workshop (or approved alternative) at Joondalup Campus, and complete 80 hours of practicum placement with aged and primary healthcare providers.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

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.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
ExerciseOnline Learning
Practicum ^2 x Practicum Reports
ONLINE
TypeDescription
ExerciseOnline Learning
Practicum ^2 x Practicum Reports

^ Mandatory to Pass


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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