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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

    Paediatric Studies for Paramedics

  • Unit Code

    PST3106

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit provides the foundation for knowledge and clinical skills in paediatric patients, their assessment, pre-hospital management and interventions for paramedic professionals. It builds upon first and second year knowledge and skills in the areas of medical and traumatic emergencies and how to apply these to the paediatric patient to an advanced paediatric life support level.

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.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from PSP2103

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply evidence based guidelines to paediatric critical situations.
  2. Describe and demonstrate appropriate pre-hospital management and paramedic interventions for paediatric patients who are ill and injured.
  3. Describe and demonstrate paediatric advanced life support processes.
  4. Describe comparative developmental physiological and cognitive states and affective differences between neonates, infants, children, adolescents and adults.
  5. Describe in detail and demonstrate a systematic approach to a paediatric patient in the pre-hospital environment.
  6. Explain and analyse the pathophysiology of paediatric medical conditions and traumatic injuries in relation to management in the pre-hospital environment.
  7. Identify and explain the management of paediatric patients who may require crisis intervention.

Unit Content

  1. Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care required by paediatric patients to promote optimal independence and wellness in the pre hospital environment.
  2. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary team management of care.
  3. Neonatal, infant, child and adolescent management.
  4. Paediatric systematic function eg haemodynamic pathophysiology.
  5. Respiratory pathophysiology.
  6. The differences between adult, neonate and paediatric physiology.
  7. Transfer of pre-hospital to hospital admission.
  8. Trauma pathophysiology.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, online resources, workshops and simulation.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework 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
TypeDescriptionValue
TestIn-Semester Test10%
AssignmentCritical Thinking Questions30%
Workshop ^Practical Simulation Assessment 110%
Workshop ^Practical Simulation Assessment 210%
Examination ^End of Semester Examination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestIn-Semester Test10%
AssignmentCritical Thinking Questions30%
Workshop ^Practical Simulation Assessment 110%
Workshop ^Practical Simulation Assessment 210%
Examination ^End of Semester Examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Text References

  • ^ American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) American College of Emergncy Physicians (ACEP). (2012). APLS: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Resource. (5th ed.). Elsiveir.
  • ^ Gregory, P., & Mursell, I. (2010). Manual of clinical paramedic procedures. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • ^ Caffey, M. (2012). Paramedic & Emergeny Pharmacology Guidelines. French Forrest, NSW: Pearson.
  • National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (U.S.). Prehospital Trauma Life Support Committee.; American College of Surgeons. Committee on Trauma (2016). PHTLS: Prehospital Trauma Life Support (8th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning

^ 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

    Paediatric Studies for Paramedics

  • Unit Code

    PST3106

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit provides the foundation for knowledge and clinical skills in paediatric patients, their assessment, pre-hospital management and interventions for paramedic professionals. It builds upon first and second year knowledge and skills in the areas of medical and traumatic emergencies and how to apply these to the paediatric patient to an advanced paediatric life support level.

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.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from PSP2103

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply evidence based guidelines to paediatric critical situations.
  2. Describe and demonstrate appropriate pre-hospital management and paramedic interventions for paediatric patients who are ill and injured.
  3. Describe and demonstrate paediatric advanced life support processes.
  4. Describe comparative developmental physiological and cognitive states and affective differences between neonates, infants, children, adolescents and adults.
  5. Describe in detail and demonstrate a systematic approach to a paediatric patient in the pre-hospital environment.
  6. Explain and analyse the pathophysiology of paediatric medical conditions and traumatic injuries in relation to management in the pre-hospital environment.
  7. Identify and explain the management of paediatric patients who may require crisis intervention.

Unit Content

  1. Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care required by paediatric patients to promote optimal independence and wellness in the pre hospital environment.
  2. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary team management of care.
  3. Neonatal, infant, child and adolescent management.
  4. Paediatric systematic function eg haemodynamic pathophysiology.
  5. Respiratory pathophysiology.
  6. The differences between adult, neonate and paediatric physiology.
  7. Transfer of pre-hospital to hospital admission.
  8. Trauma pathophysiology.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, online resources, workshops and simulation.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework 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
TypeDescriptionValue
TestIn-Semester Test10%
AssignmentCritical Thinking Questions30%
Workshop ^Practical Simulation Assessment 110%
Workshop ^Practical Simulation Assessment 210%
Examination ^End of Semester Examination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestIn-Semester Test10%
AssignmentCritical Thinking Questions30%
Workshop ^Practical Simulation Assessment 110%
Workshop ^Practical Simulation Assessment 210%
Examination ^End of Semester Examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Text References

  • ^ American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) American College of Emergncy Physicians (ACEP). (2012). APLS: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Resource. (5th ed.). Elsiveir.
  • ^ Gregory, P., & Mursell, I. (2010). Manual of clinical paramedic procedures. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • ^ Caffey, M. (2012). Paramedic & Emergeny Pharmacology Guidelines. French Forrest, NSW: Pearson.
  • National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (U.S.). Prehospital Trauma Life Support Committee.; American College of Surgeons. Committee on Trauma (2016). PHTLS: Prehospital Trauma Life Support (8th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning

^ 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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