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 there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Critical Care Practicum (Intensive Care Phase)
  • Unit Code

    PSP6101
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr David John FORD

Description

This unit provides the student with advanced practical skills to assess and manage patients in the critical care setting. The emphasis is on the application of knowledge to enable progression towards operation as an independent practitioner and includes a work integrated learning experience in a critical care/intensive care environment.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students may be required to attend clinical placements Monday-Sunday including public holidays and university breaks. The hours of these placements vary and may include early morning starts and night shifts.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PSP5101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the signs and symptoms associated with an extensive range of medical presentations, to appropriately prioritise and manage patient care in emergency and intensive care environments.
  2. Communicate professionally and with confidence, using appropriate verbal and non-verbal skills, in diverse emergency and intensive care hospital settings.
  3. Conduct physical examinations on patients, in collaboration with medical staff and colleagues, to demonstrate professional competence in the triage, referral and care of critical patients.
  4. Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for personal behaviour and safety through practicum placement preparations and personal practicum outcomes.
  5. Operate confidently in high-pressure critical care emergency settings demonstrating strong personal organisational skills and the ability to make accurate judgements under pressure.

Unit Content

  1. Arterial Blood Gas Interpretation and Advanced Airway Management.
  2. Ventilation and perfusion assessment and monitoring.
  3. 12 lead ECG application, monitoring and interpretation.
  4. Safe access and administration of medications via Intraosseous, Intramuscular and Intravenous routes in accordance with practicum placement procedures and policies.
  5. Practical application of invasive monitoring.
  6. Cardiovascular, renal, neurological, gastrointestinal, sedation and transport competencies.
  7. Emergency medical procedures.
  8. Comprehensive patient handover to medical personnel.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students are required to participate in a minimum of 10 days (80 hours) of clinical placement in an intensive/critical care environment or equivalent, as agreed with the course coordinator. In the event that clinical placement days are not available for students in their home location, they may be required to attend clinical placement in Perth and/or a workshop/simulation-based learning activity.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Practicum ^Practicum Performance
Portfolio ^Preparation Portfolio
ONLINE
TypeDescription
Practicum ^Practicum Performance
Portfolio ^Preparation Portfolio

^ 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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

PSP6101|2|1

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

    Critical Care Practicum (Intensive Care Phase)
  • Unit Code

    PSP6101
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr David John FORD

Description

This unit provides the student with advanced practical skills to assess and manage patients in the critical care setting. The emphasis is on the application of knowledge to enable progression towards operation as an independent practitioner and includes a work integrated learning experience in a critical care/intensive care environment.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students may be required to attend clinical placements Monday-Sunday including public holidays and university breaks. The hours of these placements vary and may include early morning starts and night shifts.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PSP5101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the signs and symptoms associated with an extensive range of medical presentations, to appropriately prioritise and manage patient care in emergency and intensive care environments.
  2. Communicate professionally and with confidence, using appropriate verbal and non-verbal skills, in diverse emergency and intensive care hospital settings.
  3. Conduct physical examinations on patients, in collaboration with medical staff and colleagues, to demonstrate professional competence in the triage, referral and care of critical patients.
  4. Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for personal behaviour and safety through practicum placement preparations and personal practicum outcomes.
  5. Operate confidently in high-pressure critical care emergency settings demonstrating strong personal organisational skills and the ability to make accurate judgements under pressure.

Unit Content

  1. Arterial Blood Gas Interpretation and Advanced Airway Management.
  2. Ventilation and perfusion assessment and monitoring.
  3. 12 lead ECG application, monitoring and interpretation.
  4. Safe access and administration of medications via Intraosseous, Intramuscular and Intravenous routes in accordance with practicum placement procedures and policies.
  5. Practical application of invasive monitoring.
  6. Cardiovascular, renal, neurological, gastrointestinal, sedation and transport competencies.
  7. Emergency medical procedures.
  8. Comprehensive patient handover to medical personnel.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students are required to participate in a minimum of 10 days (80 hours) of clinical placement in an intensive/critical care environment or equivalent, as agreed with the course coordinator. In the event that clinical placement days are not available for students in their home location, they may be required to attend clinical placement in Perth and/or a workshop/simulation-based learning activity.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Practicum ^Practicum Performance
Portfolio ^Preparation Portfolio
ONLINE
TypeDescription
Practicum ^Practicum Performance
Portfolio ^Preparation Portfolio

^ 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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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