Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

School: Medical 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

    Reflective Practice in Paramedicine
  • Unit Code

    PST3109
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit provides students with the opportunity to develop skills involved in reviewing their practice and evaluating their performance against the paramedic professional competencies alongside ECU graduate attributes. Students will also have the opportunity to identify areas available for development in line with professional paramedical practice and clinical governance.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from PSP1107, PST1107

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PSP3105, SCH3212, SCH3224

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Collate a portfolio that reflects professional competencies and graduate attributes.
  2. Critically analyse and discuss the management of critical incidents.
  3. Critically compare own practice to current paramedic competencies.
  4. Design own professional development pathway.
  5. Justify personal views on current developments within paramedicine.
  6. Reflect on personal experience in respect to critical incidents and clinical interventions.

Unit Content

  1. Continued professional development.
  2. Design and build an e-portfolio.
  3. Paramedic regulation including critical incidents and clinical interventions.
  4. Personal action planning.
  5. Self-evaluation review.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online activities, research, template design and self-evaluation.

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
Portfolio ^Professional e-portfolio
Reflective Practice ^Reflective practice workbook
ONLINE
TypeDescription
Portfolio ^Professional e-portfolio
Reflective Practice ^Reflective practice workbook

^ Mandatory to Pass

Text References

  • ^ Sanders, M.J. (2012). Mosby's paramedic textbook (4th ed.). Saint Louis, MO: Elsevier.

^ 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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Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

School: Medical 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

    Reflective Practice in Paramedicine
  • Unit Code

    PST3109
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit provides students with the opportunity to develop skills involved in reviewing their practice and evaluating their performance against the paramedic professional competencies alongside ECU graduate attributes. Students will also have the opportunity to identify areas available for development in line with professional paramedical practice and clinical governance.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from PSP1107, PST1107

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PSP3105, SCH3212, SCH3224

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Collate a portfolio that reflects professional competencies and graduate attributes.
  2. Critically analyse and discuss the management of critical incidents.
  3. Critically compare own practice to current paramedic competencies.
  4. Design own professional development pathway.
  5. Justify personal views on current developments within paramedicine.
  6. Reflect on personal experience in respect to critical incidents and clinical interventions.

Unit Content

  1. Continued professional development.
  2. Design and build an e-portfolio.
  3. Paramedic regulation including critical incidents and clinical interventions.
  4. Personal action planning.
  5. Self-evaluation review.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online activities, research, template design and self-evaluation.

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
Portfolio ^Professional e-portfolio
Reflective Practice ^Reflective practice workbook
ONLINE
TypeDescription
Portfolio ^Professional e-portfolio
Reflective Practice ^Reflective practice workbook

^ Mandatory to Pass

Text References

  • ^ Sanders, M.J. (2012). Mosby's paramedic textbook (4th ed.). Saint Louis, MO: Elsevier.

^ 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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