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Please note that this Unit Profile is still in progress. The content below is subject to change.Overview
In this unit, you will explore core healthcare principles including fitness to practice, quality healthcare, and cultural competence. You will learn that effective communication is crucial for patient and team interactions and that implementing safe clinical practices ensures proper care in paramedicine. You will explore appropriate communication strategies to engage with patients and healthcare teams effectively. You will learn how to implement a safe clinical approach, incorporating clinical assessments, skills, and the safe use of medications in paramedic practice. Additionally, you will consider sociocultural influences on health and explore strategies to support at-risk patients, addressing their unique needs. These principles collectively enhance patient care and outcomes.
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Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2025
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Informal Email
The students enjoy the residential schools; however, they mention that there is a lot of information to cover in a short amount of time.
Increasing the duration of the residential school will be discussed with the team with a proposed change from four days to five days duration.
- Describe the principles of fitness to practice, quality healthcare, and cultural competence and their impact on patient care and outcomes
- Explore communication strategies to engage with patients and healthcare teams effectively
- Implement a safe clinical approach, incorporating clinical assessments, skills, and the safe use of medications in paramedic practice
- Identify sociocultural influences on health and explore strategies to support at-risk patients, addressing their unique needs.
The Paramedicine Board of Australia requires that units align with the Professional Capabilities for Registered Paramedics, which consist of five (5) domains. The below section aligns the proposed learning outcomes with these domains. In addition, the learning outcomes have been aligned with the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards.
Professional Capabilities for Registered Paramedics
| Standard/Attribute/Criteria | Learning Outcome |
| Domain 1: The professional and ethical practitioner 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.6, 1.1.8, 1.1.11, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.4.1 | LO1, LO3, LO4 |
| Domain 2: The communicator and collaborator 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.6, 2.1.7, 2.1.8, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.6 | LO2, LO3, LO4 |
| Domain 3: The evidence-based practitioner 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.2.4, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3 | LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4 |
| Domain 4: The safety and risk management practitioner 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.4, 4.1.5, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.3.1, 4.5.1, 4.6.1 | LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4 |
| Domain 5: The paramedicine practitioner 5.1.3, 5.1.4, 5.2.2, 5.2.4, 5.3.2, 5.4.1, 5.4.2, 5.6.1, 5.6.2, 5.6.4 | LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4 |
National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards
| Standard | Learning Outcomes |
| Clinical Governance | LO1, LO2, LO4 |
| Partnering with Consumers | LO2, LO3, LO4 |
| Preventing and Controlling Infections | LO2, LO3, LO4 |
| Comprehensive Care | LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4 |
| Communicating for Safety | LO2, LO3, LO4 |
| Recognising and Responding to Acute Deterioration | LO2, LO3 |
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Annotated bibliography - 25% | ||||
| 2 - On-campus Activity - 35% | ||||
| 3 - Case Study - 40% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||