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

    Reflective Practice in Paramedicine
  • Unit Code

    PST3109
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Miss Lisa Marie HOLMES

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 unit from (PSP1107, PST1107)

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must be concurrently enrolled in PSP3107 or have already completed PSP3107.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PSP3105, SCH3212, SCH3224

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

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

Unit Content

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

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 Year26 x 1 hour seminarNot 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.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online activities, research, employment application and interview workshops 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
PortfolioProfessional Career e-Portfolio
Reflective PracticeAll Module Workbook
ONLINE
TypeDescription
PortfolioProfessional Career e-Portfolio
Reflective PracticeAll Module Workbook

Core Reading(s)

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

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

    Reflective Practice in Paramedicine
  • Unit Code

    PST3109
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Miss Lisa Marie HOLMES

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 unit from (PSP1107, PST1107)

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must be concurrently enrolled in PSP3107 or have already completed PSP3107.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PSP3105, SCH3212, SCH3224

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

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

Unit Content

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

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 Year26 x 1 hour seminarNot 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.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online activities, research, employment application and interview workshops 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
PortfolioProfessional Career e-Portfolio
Reflective PracticeAll Module Workbook
ONLINE
TypeDescription
PortfolioProfessional Career e-Portfolio
Reflective PracticeAll Module Workbook

Core Reading(s)

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

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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