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School: Medical and Health Sciences

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  • Unit Title

    Advanced Paramedical Practice 1

  • Unit Code

    PSP3101

  • Year

    2026

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    6

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Siobhan RIMMER

Description

This unit builds upon the clinical techniques, skills and equipment use in professional paramedic practice developed in the prerequisite units. The unit addresses professional paramedic management of patients with critical care conditions at an advanced life support level using simulation. It focuses on the principles of problem-based learning, evidence-based practice and team work to increase student proficiency in clinical reasoning and problem-solving skills to manage patients in the prehospital environment.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students are required to attend a mandatory workshop at the Joondalup campus which may be held outside of normal semester timetable.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed PSP2103, PST2102, PST2106 & (PST2109 OR PST2235 & PST2210)

Co-Requisite Rule

Must be enrolled in course version G51, K89. PST3106 must be studied at the same time.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SCH2209

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Collaborate with healthcare professionals when treating critically ill or injured patients in complex prehospital environments.
  2. Apply clinical skills and safe work practices when treating patients in complex prehospital environments.
  3. Apply a systemic approach to obtain accurate patient information in complex prehospital environments.
  4. Apply clinical reasoning to make appropriate ethical, professional and clinical decisions in complex prehospital environments.
  5. Create accurate patient care records for patients with critical conditions in prehospital settings.
  6. Demonstrate professional competency against the NSQHS Standards in a simulation or work integrated learning setting.

Unit Content

  1. Differential diagnosis and evidence based treatment of the critically ill and injured patient.
  2. Application of therapeutic communication skills including cultural and social awareness to the prehospital setting.
  3. Comprehensive patient history taking process and documentation.
  4. Emergency management of critically ill and injured patients including advanced life support in the prehospital setting.
  5. Administration of pharmacological interventions for advanced life support.
  6. Advanced approach to scene and patient assessment of critical care conditions in the prehospital setting.
  7. Clinical decision making for patients with critical conditions in the prehospital setting.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

City CampusJoondalupSouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 2 hour workshop1 x 2 hour workshop

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students continue developing their communication, clinical problem solving, decision making skills, advanced life support for adult and paediatric patients and critical care interventions through use of simulation scenarios, facilitated by Paramedics. Students must demonstrate their competence in assessing and treating a range of simulated medical, trauma and cardiac arrest presentations. It integrates functional movement principles relating to manual handling into paramedic practice with the aim of minimising risk of personal injury. The unit prepares students for the role as a professional paramedic.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Case StudyPatient care report form.
Performance ^Clinical OSCEs.
Performance ^Simulations- Emergency medical care and resuscitation
ONLINE
TypeDescription
Case StudyPatient care report form.
Performance ^Clinical OSCEs.
Performance ^Simulations- Emergency medical care and resuscitation

^ Mandatory to Pass

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 Procedure - 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 Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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