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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Obstetric Studies for Paramedics
  • Unit Code

    PST3107
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Melissa GARDINER

Description

This unit provides students with the knowledge to assess and treat obstetric and neonate patients in prehospital environments. Students learn the physiology of normal and high-risk pregnancy, and how to apply appropriate prehospital management strategies and interventions to obstetric patients. This unit focuses on the systematic and team approach to patient care when assessing and treating obstetric emergencies, with an emphasis on the evidence-based management of prehospital labour, emergency delivery, and immediate care of the newborn. Students will develop knowledge of diverse cultural beliefs and behaviours, including Aboriginal cultural perspectives, to guide them with providing culturally sensitive and dignified care for obstetric patients.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain the cultural and communication considerations that confront health care providers in dealing with obstetric emergencies.
  2. Distinguish between normal and complex clinical presentations in obstetric and neonatal patients.
  3. Apply knowledge of the physiological stages of normal pregnancy to assess and treat obstetric patients in prehospital settings.
  4. Evaluate high risk and emergency obstetric and neonatal presentations to determine the appropriate prehospital intervention and treatment to be initiated.

Unit Content

  1. Normal and complicated pregnancy.
  2. Emergency childbirth.
  3. Management of the neonate.
  4. Obstetric and gynaecological emergencies and conditions.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

This is a knowledge-based unit that develops awareness and understanding of the appropriate care of obstetric and neonatal patients in the prehospital setting. Students will be assessed on their ability to use clinical reasoning and problem-solving skills to make informed treatment decisions in time-sensitive situations. Application of obstetric practical skills including emergency delivery occurs in PSP3103 Advanced Paramedical Practice 2. Case study scenarios are used extensively in this unit so that students can practice applying their knowledge to complex emergency care situations.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline test.20%
Case StudyObstetric clinical case studies.40%
ExaminationClosed book examination.40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline test.20%
Case StudyObstetric clinical case studies.40%
ExaminationClosed book examination.40%

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 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. 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, 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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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Obstetric Studies for Paramedics
  • Unit Code

    PST3107
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Melissa GARDINER

Description

This unit provides students with the knowledge to assess and treat obstetric and neonate patients in prehospital environments. Students learn the physiology of normal and high-risk pregnancy, and how to apply appropriate prehospital management strategies and interventions to obstetric patients. This unit focuses on the systematic and team approach to patient care when assessing and treating obstetric emergencies, with an emphasis on the evidence-based management of prehospital labour, emergency delivery, and immediate care of the newborn. Students will develop knowledge of diverse cultural beliefs and behaviours, including Aboriginal cultural perspectives, to guide them with providing culturally sensitive and dignified care for obstetric patients.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain the cultural and communication considerations that confront health care providers in dealing with obstetric emergencies.
  2. Distinguish between normal and complex clinical presentations in obstetric and neonatal patients.
  3. Apply knowledge of the physiological stages of normal pregnancy to assess and treat obstetric patients in prehospital settings.
  4. Evaluate high risk and emergency obstetric and neonatal presentations to determine the appropriate prehospital intervention and treatment to be initiated.

Unit Content

  1. Normal and complicated pregnancy.
  2. Emergency childbirth.
  3. Management of the neonate.
  4. Obstetric and gynaecological emergencies and conditions.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

This is a knowledge-based unit that develops awareness and understanding of the appropriate care of obstetric and neonatal patients in the prehospital setting. Students will be assessed on their ability to use clinical reasoning and problem-solving skills to make informed treatment decisions in time-sensitive situations. Application of obstetric practical skills including emergency delivery occurs in PSP3103 Advanced Paramedical Practice 2. Case study scenarios are used extensively in this unit so that students can practice applying their knowledge to complex emergency care situations.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline test.20%
Case StudyObstetric clinical case studies.40%
ExaminationClosed book examination.40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline test.20%
Case StudyObstetric clinical case studies.40%
ExaminationClosed book examination.40%

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 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. 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, 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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