School: Medical and Health Sciences

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  • Unit Title

    Advanced Obstetrics for Paramedics
  • Unit Code

    PST5107
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Krystyl WISSEMANN

Description

This unit will provide students with the advanced knowledge required to work independently or in conjunction with other health and medical practitioners in the provision of out of hospital care for life threatening gynaecological, neonatal, and obstetrical emergencies. Emphasis will be placed on obtaining a high level of understanding of the pathophysiology of gynaecological, neonatal, and obstetrical emergencies in order to make adequate and sound assessments of the situation. Students will learn current management strategies for the treatment of gynaecological, neonatal, and obstetrical conditions in critical situations and develop knowledge of interventions aimed to result in good patient outcomes in a diverse population.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PST6107, SCH5104

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Communicate with clarity and purpose, using appropriate medical language to demonstrate professional competence in the care and management of obstetric emergencies.
  2. Analyse complex gynaecological, neonatal and obstetrical cases in collaboration with colleagues to guide professional competence and decision-making in the care and management of obstetric emergencies.
  3. Formulate appropriate pre-hospital care and treatment plans for emergency obstetric conditions, including emergency child birth and care of the neonate and abnormal birth presentations.
  4. Apply the complex pathophysiology of gynaecological, neonatal and obstetrical conditions to correctly diagnose and treat these conditions in emergency situations.
  5. Operate with confidence in critical care settings demonstrating the ability to make accurate judgements under pressure.

Unit Content

  1. The effects of trauma injury in pregnancy.
  2. Gynaecological conditions.
  3. Emergency obstetric conditions.
  4. Post natal care.
  5. Care of the neonate.
  6. Abnormal birth.
  7. Normal birth.
  8. Prenatal care.
  9. Abnormal pregnancy.
  10. Reproductive anatomy and physiology review.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials and discussion groups.

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 School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioEvidence-based Discussions and Reflections of Gynaecological and Obstetric Care45%
ProjectPrehospital Gynaecological and Obstetric Care25%
Case StudyPrehospital Assessment and Management of Gynaecological and Obstetric Emergencies30%

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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