PAR5460 Transition to intensive care paramedic practice
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
PAR5460 Transition to intensive care paramedic practice is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. It isn't offered in 2021. It needs PAR5420, PAR5430, PAR5440 and PAR5480.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2021
- Not offered
- Assessment
- No exam
- 2 tasks
The 2027 handbook has no page for PAR5460. This is its 2021 entry, the latest one.
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Requisites
Before PAR5460
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
After PAR5460
No unit lists PAR5460 as a prerequisite in the 2021 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Overview
This units aims to prepare the student for clinical practice by using simulation-training methods to improve the understanding of human factors and their impact on the quality of team-based clinical care within the specific emergency paramedic environment.
The unit will allow the student to implement key clinical skills and practice clinical judgment, clinical decision making with implementation of management within a broad range of simulated emergencies and objective, structured clinical exams (OSCEs).
Offerings in 2021
The 2021 handbook lists no offerings for PAR5460.
Assessment
- Portfolio50%
- OSCE50%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Explain the impact of human factors upon the development of expert clinical decision making and clinical judgement
- 2
Analyse an emergency situation and demonstrate both scene and clinical leadership to formulate and implement appropriate clinical care
- 3
Competently perform high ranging life-saving clinical skills safely and efficiently in a simulated environment
- 4
Competently perform a range of paramedic skills including advanced airway management, diagnostics and the administration of pharmacotherapeutic agents.
- 5
Apply theoretic concepts of paramedicine to a simulated clinical setting
- 6
Evaluate the outcome of the simulation, using reflective practice as the basis for improvements to their ongoing patient care practices.
Learning resources
Required resources
See Moodle for details about required resources.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Linda Ross
- Unit Coordinators
- Mr Brendan Shannon
Common questions
More details
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 5
- Study level
- Postgraduate
- Faculty
- Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
- Organisational unit
- Department of Paramedicine
- Type
- Coursework
- EFTSL
- 0.125
- Student contribution
- SCA Band 2
- Study abroad
- Not available
- Handbook years
- 20202021