CSB342 Paramedic Clinical Practice 2
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| Unit code: | CSB342 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | (CSB331 or PUB270) and (CSB340 or PUB567 or PUB555). CSB340 can be studied in the same teaching period as CSB342 |
| Antirequisite(s): | CSB357 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,488 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | CSB342 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | (CSB331 or PUB270) and (CSB340 or PUB567 or PUB555). CSB340 can be studied in the same teaching period as CSB342 |
| Anti-requisite: | CSB357 |
| Coordinators: | Wayne Loudon | w.loudon@qut.edu.au Rhiannon Coutts | r.coutts@qut.edu.au Stephen Bartlett | stephen.bartlett@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit is in the developmental stage of your course and builds on the work you learned in previous paramedic clinical units. This unit provides you with opportunities to strengthen your practice skills and provide evidence of your development as a clinician in a supervised environment. Additionally it is fundamental to this course that you are exposed to an appropriate case load of suitable patients in the out of hospital phase. This unit is the second in a series of three that provide the work integrated learning experience. Over a six week period, you will be required to complete approximately 240 hours of placement to be conducted externally through the Queensland Ambulance Service.
This is a designated unit which is essential to your course progression. Designated units include professional experience units, units requiring the development of particular skills, and units requiring demonstration of certain personal qualities. If you fail to achieve a satisfactory level of performance in a designated unit, you may be excluded from enrolment or will be put on academic probation. If you fail a designated unit twice within your course, you may be excluded. Supplementary assessment is not available on designated units.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply holistic paramedic practice management, collaborative, evidence-based decision-making at non-complex scenes and with straight forward clinical presentations;
- Communicate information, advice, interpersonal skills in managing patients' trust and confidence in the out of hospital phase;
- Reflect on your developing professional capabilities, clinical reasoning and problem solving, communication with team members, members of the public and other healthcare professionals;
- Demonstrate empathy and compassion toward the sick and injured who are in need of paramedic assistance.
Content
Clinical Practice will be conducted in the prehospital environment under the supervision of an appropriately qualified clinical mentor. One of the crew members will be an appropriately qualified clinical mentor.
This unit will include:
- Effective scene management, including, logistics, safe access and egress, and patient extrication techniques;
- Introduction to the assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care in the out of hospital phase;
- Written and oral communication including, patient interviews, radio procedures, writing ambulance report forms (ARFs) and patient handover at hospital; and
- Assistance to operational crews under direction, when acting as a third officer and transition to the role of second officer.
Learning Approaches
This unit engages you in work-integrated learning experiences. Through the reflection of performance in the course experience to date, you are gaining knowledge of self and therefore better able to understand human behaviour and what motivates others. Knowledge of self, identify and culture influences the quality of care of patients and is developed through reflections on the learning experiences during placement. Your interpersonal skills and attributes, your continuing personal and professional development, are evidenced and assessed in practice and recorded in your portfolio.
Your mentored clinical experience is vital. It is during this time you begin to transfer your knowledge and skills into the environment where you will practise as an ambulance paramedic. Your Paramedic Mentor will guide and support you throughout this and your future field practicums. In your first placement (CSB331 Paramedic Clinical Practice 1), you were introduced to the ambulance environment as an observer. The challenge for you now is to build on these developing clinical leadership skills, to transition from observer to an operational ambulance crew member in the supervised capacity as a student paramedic. The speed at which you transition is dependent on your confidence, ability to reflect on your engagement with these real world learning experiences.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive continuous ongoing feedback and support from your clinical mentors identifying strengths and opportunities for improvement. You will be required to maintain a journal of your supervised clinical experience. Operational staff, in consultation with the Unit Coordinator, will review your clinical exposure during placement and if necessary extra clinical placements and/or simulation will be arranged. Clinical mentors will provide feedback via a specifically designed assessment tool, on your demonstrated team skills.
Adequate mentored clinical experience is a requirement for completing this unit. You will receive grades using the criteria sheet as well as written comments.
Assessment
Overview
There are three items of assessment to be completed in this unit. Each item is designed to assess particular learning outcomes. Each item of assessment must be completed at a satisfactory level in order to achieve an overall passing grade in this unit.
Threshold assessment conditions
In this unit, for you to be eligible to receive a passing grade, threshold assessment conditions apply. You are required to achieve a satisfactory result in all items of assessment to receive a S (satisfactory) result in the unit. If you do not achieve a satisfactory result for an assessment task you are able to make one resubmission of this work. You are advised to seek feedback on your submission from the unit coordinator prior to resubmission.
N.B. Resubmission is not usually available for U (unsatisfactory) result for placement performance.
Unit Grading Scheme
S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Portfolio
You are required to complete a portfolio (electronic) which reflects on, and analyses your clinical performance drawn from your clinical placement experiences. It also asks you to reflect on aspects such as the reality of paramedic practice and the ambulance culture.
You will meet your 'My CPR' placement 20 points by reflecting on the realities of practice in a portfolio of your developing knowledge, skills, and professional capabilities.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Weight: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Assessment: In-field Assessment
This is a six (6) week placement as a third person with a paramedic crew. Clinical mentors will provide feedback via a specifically designed assessment tool, on your demonstrated team skills, holistic paramedic practice management, evidence-based decision-making, your assistance to operational crews, following directions, your ability to reason, problem solve and demonstration of professional and interpersonal communication skills in managing patients' trust and confidence in the out of hospital phase.
Weight: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Assessment: Examination (practical)
Assessment name: Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)
This physical or oral demonstration of skills and scenario based assessment assessed your application of holistic paramedic practice management, collaborative, evidence-based decision-making.
Weight: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Due date: Throughout semester - refer to Blackboard
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
QUT Paramedic Science Student placement uniform and safety kit, which was required for CSB331 Paramedic Clinical Practice 1.
If necessary, please visit http://www.whatsinaname.net.au/ to order replacement uniform or safety kit items.
Blue Card
A blue card is required to complete this unit. A blue card confirms that you have passed a screening of your criminal history (the Working with Children Check) and have been approved to work with children and young people. For more information on the blue card and how to apply please visit the QUT website.
Resources
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Queensland Ambulance Service. (2015). Clinical practice manual. Brisbane: Available online at: https://ambulance.qld.gov.au/clinical.html
Risk Assessment Statement
Out of hospital care can be hazardous. You are required to work as part of an operational crew responding to emergency 000 calls. There is regular exposure to high speed driving, body fluids, medical sharps, defibrillators and sometimes aggressive patients in the off campus phase of the unit. Your clinical practice is supervised at all time during this unit and the QUT student paramedic uniform and appropriate personal protective equipment as purchased from 'What's in a Name' (www.whatsinaname.net.au) or other advised supplier must be worn during this placement.