PAR5106 Paramedic practitioner essentials
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
PAR5106 Paramedic practitioner essentials is a level 5, 0-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, offered in 2025 in Full year at Peninsula. It needs PAR5320.
- Credit points
- 0
- Offered in 2025
- Full year
- Peninsula
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before PAR5106
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
After PAR5106
No unit lists PAR5106 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Must be enrolled in M6048.
Overview
This unit acts as a consistent thread throughout your Master of Paramedic Practitioner program. The unit houses of your competency assessments for the Paramedic Practitioner qualification, fostering your ability to seamlessly integrate theoretical knowledge with real-world clinical applications. This unit stands as the touchstone for essential workplace evaluations.
The companion Moodle site will connect you with all Master of Paramedic Practitioner students, fostering a collaborative environment to exchange insights, experiences, and challenges via discussion forums with each other. Moreover, it provides you a direct communication channel to the Paramedic Practitioner stream leader, ensuring guidance and mentorship remain uninterrupted, even during course units facilitated by adjunct faculty.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Full year extended | Peninsula | Immersive |
Assessment
- Clinical mentorship portfolio (pass/fail)ArtefactCompetency hurdle-
- Supervised clinical encounters (750 words per encounter) (pass/fail)Work integratedCompetency hurdle-
- Capability framework portfolio (pass/fail)ArtefactCompetency hurdle-
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Appraise and apply the principles of leadership and mentorship and apply these in your role as an advanced practitioner.
- 2
Explain the importance of critical reflection and reflexivity for professional development in your role as an advanced practitioner.
- 3
Evaluate how professional communication, collaboration and networking impact the transition to advanced practice roles.
- 4
Justify the need for high level problem solving, and clinical decision making in an advanced practice role.
- 5
Develop advanced skills and knowledge in medication management, health assessment, and diagnosis.
- 6
Defend how your collaborative interprofessional practice impacts on patient outcomes.
- 7
Employ evidence-based practice in your advanced practice role.
- 8
Construct and defend contemporary evidence associated with advanced practice capabilities in your nominated role.
- 9
Appraise ethical and medico-legal issues associated with your role as an advanced practitioner and analyse how these relate to service delivery.
Workload and teaching
Compulsory work-integrated learning:
Equivalent to 4 hours a week for 75 weeks for professional skill development and portfolio work-integrated learning activities during profession placement.
Interacting with course materials and completion of assessments:
Moodle asynchronous online learning activities, synchronous support sessions and completing assessment tasks equivalent to 1 hours a week for 75 weeks.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Michael Walker
- Unit Coordinators
- Leon Baranowski
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for PAR5106?
You need PAR5320 before you enrol. Enrolment rules also apply.
When is PAR5106 offered?
In 2025, PAR5106 runs in Full year at Peninsula.
Does PAR5106 have an exam?
No. PAR5106 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.