Overview
This unit extends your clinical reasoning and decision-making skills in managing diverse patient presentations across acute, chronic, and palliative care contexts. You will integrate pathophysiological knowledge with comprehensive patient assessment to develop accurate diagnostic reasoning and safe, evidence-based practice. Teaching emphasises culturally safe, ethical, and patient-centred care that supports shared decision-making and upholds patient dignity, values, and autonomy. Clinical foci include chronic pain, endocrinology, bariatrics, toxicological presentations, and palliative and end-of-life care. Interprofessional education (IPE) is embedded throughout, with specialised nursing and allied health clinicians contributing expertise across key content areas, including interprofessional teamwork. IPE is further enriched through involvement of the patient perspective, deepening your knowledge of and capacity in collaborative, person-centred care.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisite: PMSC12001 Applied Paramedic Practice. Co-requisite: PMSC13016 Integrated Cardiac and Respiratory Care in Paramedicine or PMSC12004 Advanced Electrophysiology and Coronary Care.
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 1 - 2027
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).
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You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Academic Progression Policy and Procedure
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- 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.