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Unit Synopsis
Within this unit, you will review and explain the key concepts of traumatic conditions, enabling you to formulate and implement the safe management of individuals and populations with traumatic conditions in the paramedicine context. You will apply advanced knowledge of emergency medicine in a mass casualty or major incident event, and critically reflect on your paramedic practice concerning traumatic conditions, major incidents, and professional standards to ensure continual improvement.
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-requisite:
Co-requisite:
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 |
Compulsory Residential School View Unit Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 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.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 60% |
| 2. Online Test | 40% |
| 3. On-campus Activity | 0% |
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%).
Past Exams
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Term 1 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 31.82% 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: SUTE Unit Comments Report
Students enjoyed the unit content and residential school, including the use of authentic scenarios.
Continue to maintain the standard of the unit content and the residential school.
Content updated and reviewed. Student satisfaction remains high.
Source: Informal student feedback, self-Reflection
Students have requested more detailed and varied video examples of scenarios.
Expand upon exemplar simulation videos for the next offering.
Several scenarios filmed and added to the unit moodle page as exemplars.
Source: SUTE unit comment report.
Student satisfaction with the unit is high.
Continue to maintain the standard of content and assessment.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Review and explain the key concepts of traumatic conditions in the paramedicine context
- Formulate and implement the safe management of individuals and populations with traumatic conditions in the paramedicine context
- Apply advanced knowledge of emergency medicine in a mass casualty or major incident event
- Critically reflect on your paramedic practice in relation to traumatic conditions, major incidents, and professional standards to ensure continual improvement.
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 Outcomes |
|
Domain 1: The professional and ethical practitioner 1.1.1, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.9, 1.1.10, 1.1.11, 1.2.2, 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3 |
LO1, LO2 |
|
Domain 2: The communicator and collaborator 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.5, 2.1.6, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.2.6 |
LO2 |
|
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, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.3.4, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.3.4 |
LO1, LO3, LO4 |
|
Domain 4: The safety and risk management practitioner 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.1.5, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.3.3, 4.5.2, 4.5.3, 4.6.5, 4.6.6 |
LO2, LO4 |
|
Domain 5: The paramedicine practitioner 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.4, 5.2.5, 5.3.1, 5.3.2, 5.3.3, 5.3.4, 5.3.6, 5.4.1, 5.4.2, 5.4.3, 5.4.4, 5.4.5, 5.5.1, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.6.3, 5.6.4 |
LO1, LO2, LO3 |
National Safety and Quality Health Standards
| Standard | Learning Outcomes |
| Clinical Governance | LO1, LO2 |
| Partnering with Consumers | LO2 |
| Preventing and Controlling Infections | LO1, LO2 |
| Medication Safety | LO1, LO2 |
| Comprehensive Care | LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4 |
| Communicating for Safety | LO2, LO4 |
| Recognising and Responding to Acute Deterioration | LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4 |
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | ||
| 2 - Online Test | • | • | • | |
| 3 - On-campus Activity | • | • | ||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | • |
| 5 - Team Work | • | • | ||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | • | • |
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | |
| 9 - Social Innovation | • | • | ||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |