Unit Synopsis
This unit is the third of three (3) clinical placement units within the Bachelor of Paramedicine course, where you will apply clinical knowledge, reasoning and practical skills at a graduate level in the clinical environment, engaging in structured reflective practice and consolidating skills and knowledge acquired over the course of the degree. You will complete a placement of a minimum of 200 hours (rostered across six weeks) applying a defined scope of practice under supervision. Placement activities focus on clinical judgement and decision-making to support your increasingly independent practice, ensuring you are adequately prepared for entry into a graduate internship program.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 3 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisites:
Co-requisites:
Please note: Any student who has not successfully completed a PMSC residential school within the preceding 12 months or undertaken a clinical placement unit, must complete a PMSC12001 Procedures & Skills refresher. This ensures currency with all contemporary skills and procedures in line with industry standards and professional capabilities 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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Term 2 - 2026 Profile
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.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Professional Practice Placement | 0% |
| 2. Portfolio | 0% |
This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
Past Exams
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Term 2 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 68.75% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 12.9% response rate.
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.
Source: Self-reflection.
Some unit content areas need updating to reflect contemporary practice.
Engage in a continuous improvement process to ensure contemporary unit resources are available and formatted for ease of student access.
The content in this unit was significantly updated to make contemporary supportive resources available.
Source: Student feedback
During placement, students received support and welfare calls to ensure wellbeing. Students expressed appreciation for these calls.
Continue to make support and welfare calls to students on receipt of both absence notifications and notifications from a placement provider that the student has been involved in a challenging response.
In Progress
Source: Student feedback
Some action-focused students found that reflecting on their placement experiences took them out of their comfort zone.
Further develop student expectations of reflective learning building long-term value from the placement experience, enabling them to develop self-improvement actions for a lifelong learning mindset.
In Progress
Source: SUTE Feedback
Some students recommended tailoring communication techniques to student preferences
Ensure that students are aware of the multiple methods of communications and the full range of benefits of the Drop In sessions.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Apply advanced clinical reasoning and practical skills at a graduate level within the clinical setting to provide safe, culturally responsive and evidence-informed care
- Formulate and critically evaluate self-improvement plans through structured reflection, feedback and professional capability frameworks, demonstrating application of lifelong learning and continuous improvement approaches
- Evaluate and apply legal, ethical and professional responsibilities, including cultural safety obligations in paramedicine practice, with particular emphasis on care for First Nations peoples and other diverse communities.
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) Ambulance Health Service Standards.
Professional Capabilities for Registered Paramedics
| Standard/Attribute/Criteria | Learning Outcomes |
| Domain 1: The professional; and ethical practitioner 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.6, 1.1.7, 1.1.8, 1.1.9, 1.1.10, 1.1.11, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.2.6, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.4.1, 1.4.2 | LO1, LO2, LO3 |
| Domain 2: The communicator and the collaborator 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.5, 2.1.6, 2.1.7, 2.1.8, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.5, 2.2.6 | LO1, LO2, LO3 |
| Domain 3: The evidence-based practitioner 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.2.4, 3.2.5, 3.2.6, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.3.4, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4 | LO1, LO2, LO3 |
| Domain 4: The safety and risk management practitioner 4.1.1 4.1.2, 4.1.3, .1.4, 4.1.5, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.3.3, 4.4.1, 4.4.2, 4.4.3, 4.4.4, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.5.3, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.6.3, 4.6.5, 4.7.4, 4.7.7, 4.7.8, 4.7.9 | LO1, LO2, LO3 |
| Domain 5: The paramedicine practitioner 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, 5.1.4, 5.1.5, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.3, 5.2.4, 5.2.5, 5.3.4, 5.4.1, 5.4.2, 5.4.3, 5.4.4, 5.4.5, 5.4.6, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.6.1, 5.6.2, 5.6.3, 5.6.4 | LO1, LO2, LO3 |
National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards
| Standard | Learning Outcomes |
| Clinical Governance 1.01b, 1.01c, 1.01f, 1.06a, 1.07b, 1.07c, 1.10a, 1.10b, 1.10c, 1.10e, 1.11a, 1.11c, 1.11e, 1.13a, 1.13b, 1.13c, 1.16b, 1.16c, 1.19b, 1.20a, 1.20b, 1.20c, 1.20d, 1.21, 1.22a, 1.23a, 1.23b, 1.23c, 1.26, 1.27a, 1.27b, 1.28b, 1.28c, 1.28d, 1.30a, 1.33 | LO1, LO2, LO3 |
| Partnering and Consumers 2.01b, 2.04, 2.05a, 2.05b, 2.06, 2.07, 2.08, 2.10a, 2.10b, 2.10c | LO1, LO2, LO3 |
| Preventing and Controlling infections 3.02b, 3.07b, 3.07c, 3.07d, 3.07e, 3.07f, 3.07g, 3.08g | LO1, LO2, LO3 |
| Medication safety 4.04, 4.05, 4.06, 4.07, 4.10a, 4.10b, 4.10c, 4.11, 4.12a, 4.12b, 4.14a, 4.14b, 4.14c | LO1, LO2, LO3 |
| Comprehensive care 5.04a, 5.04b, 5.04c, 5.04d, 5.05a, 5.05b, 5.06, 5.08, 5.10a, 5.10b, 5.10c, 5.11, 5.13a, 5.13b, 5.13c, 5.13d, 5.13e, 5.13f, 5.14a, 5.14b, , 5.14c, 5.14d, 5.15b, 5.15d, 5.30a, 5.30b, 5.33 | LO1, LO2, LO3 |
| Communicating for Safety 6.01a, 6.01b, 6.01c, 6.02a, 6.02b, 6.03a, 6.03b, 6.03c, 6.04a, 6.04b, 6.04c, 6.05b, 6.06a, 6.06b, 6.07a, 6.07b, 6.07c, 6.08a, 6.08b, 6.08c, 6.08d, 6.08e, 6.08f, 6.09a, 6.09b, 6.10, 6.11a, 6.11b, 6.11c | LO1, LO2 |
| Recognising and responding to Acute Deterioration 8.01a, 8.01b, 8.03a, 8.03b, 8.03c, 8.04a, 8.04b, 8.04c, 8.05a, 8.05b, 8.05c, 8.05d, 8.05e, 8.06a, 8.06b, 8.06c, 8.06d, 8.06e, 8.07, 8.09, 8.10, 8.12, 8.13 | LO1, LO2 |
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Professional Practice Placement | • | • | |
| 2 - Portfolio | • | • | |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 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 | • | • | • |
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | • | • | • |
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |