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

    Extended Care Paramedicine Practicum
  • Unit Code

    PSP6305
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Alecka Kate MILES

Description

This unit provides the student with the opportunity to apply their new knowledge and develop advanced skills in assessment, care coordination and treatment of patients in urgent care, primary health care and/or community care setting. The emphasis is on the application of knowledge to enable progression towards operation as an independent paramedic practitioner and includes a work integrated learning experience in an urgent care and/or primary health care and/or community 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 PSP6100

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply clinical knowledge and reasoning skills in the triage, assessment, treatment, referral and ongoing care of patients to demonstrate professional practitioner competence in primary health care contexts.
  2. Communicate professionally and with confidence, using appropriate verbal and non-verbal skills, in diverse primary health care settings.
  3. Conduct physical examinations on patients, in collaboration with medical or primary health care personnel, to demonstrate professional practitioner competence in the triage, assessment, treatment, referral and ongoing care of patients.
  4. Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for personal behaviour and safety through practicum placement preparations and personal practicum outcomes.
  5. Evaluate the signs and symptoms associated with an extensive range of medical presentations, to appropriately prioritise and manage patient care in professional paramedic practitioner environments.

Unit Content

  1. Primary/secondary survey; physical assessment of the adult/paediatric patient, including mechanism of injury and history and priorities of care and triage.
  2. The standards, guidelines and protocols of the role of the Paramedic Practitioner.
  3. Roles of multidisciplinary teams in relation to primary health care.
  4. The application of a variety of primary health physical and pharmacological interventions appropriate to the role of an extended scope of Paramedic Practitioner.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students are required to participate in a minimum of 10 days (80 hours) of clinical placement in an urgent care and/or primary health care and/or community 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 equivalent 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.

ONLINE
TypeDescription
Portfolio ^Preparation for Practicum Portfolio
Participation ^Clinical logbook
Practicum ^Practicum Portfolio

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Talley, P. N. J., & O’Connor, S. (2017). Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination: A Systematic Guide to Physical Diagnosis. Elsevier Australia. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1001364758
  • Patton, K. T., & Thibodeau, G. A. (2018). The human body in health & disease (7th ed., p. xxiii,750). St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/953707980

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

    Extended Care Paramedicine Practicum
  • Unit Code

    PSP6305
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Alecka Kate MILES

Description

This unit provides the student with the opportunity to apply their new knowledge and develop advanced skills in assessment, care coordination and treatment of patients in urgent care, primary health care and/or community care setting. The emphasis is on the application of knowledge to enable progression towards operation as an independent paramedic practitioner and includes a work integrated learning experience in an urgent care and/or primary health care and/or community 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 PSP6100

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply clinical knowledge and reasoning skills in the triage, assessment, treatment, referral and ongoing care of patients to demonstrate professional practitioner competence in primary health care contexts.
  2. Communicate professionally and with confidence, using appropriate verbal and non-verbal skills, in diverse primary health care settings.
  3. Conduct physical examinations on patients, in collaboration with medical or primary health care personnel, to demonstrate professional practitioner competence in the triage, assessment, treatment, referral and ongoing care of patients.
  4. Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for personal behaviour and safety through practicum placement preparations and personal practicum outcomes.
  5. Evaluate the signs and symptoms associated with an extensive range of medical presentations, to appropriately prioritise and manage patient care in professional paramedic practitioner environments.

Unit Content

  1. Primary/secondary survey; physical assessment of the adult/paediatric patient, including mechanism of injury and history and priorities of care and triage.
  2. The standards, guidelines and protocols of the role of the Paramedic Practitioner.
  3. Roles of multidisciplinary teams in relation to primary health care.
  4. The application of a variety of primary health physical and pharmacological interventions appropriate to the role of an extended scope of Paramedic Practitioner.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students are required to participate in a minimum of 10 days (80 hours) of clinical placement in an urgent care and/or primary health care and/or community 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 equivalent 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.

ONLINE
TypeDescription
Portfolio ^Preparation for Practicum Portfolio
Participation ^Clinical logbook
Practicum ^Practicum Portfolio

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Talley, P. N. J., & O’Connor, S. (2017). Talley and O’Connor’s Clinical Examination: A Systematic Guide to Physical Diagnosis. Elsevier Australia. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1001364758
  • Patton, K. T., & Thibodeau, G. A. (2018). The human body in health & disease (7th ed., p. xxiii,750). St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/953707980

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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