CQUniversity Unit Profile.

In this unit, you are required to complete two (2)  Work Integrated Learning (WIL) placements. These placements offer you the opportunity to apply your underpinning knowledge, clinical reasoning, and practical skills to paramedic practice.  

Non-ambulance health service placement
This placement will be a minimum of 70 hours, rostered across two weeks with a placement provider local to you, where possible. You will work alongside and learn from other health professionals and patients in non-emergency contexts, building skills in teamwork, communication, and person-centred care that will support future clinical practice within the ambulance and collaborative care settings.

Ambulance placement
The second minimum 150-hour placement will be rostered across four weeks with an ambulance service, extending your learning into the prehospital environment, where you will observe and participate in emergency care under direct paramedic supervision. 

Task Details:
For this assessment, you must complete three (3) Professional Practice Placement Reports with your placement supervisors, via the online Sonia links. 

Across both non-ambulance and ambulance settings, you will engage in guided reflection and feedback to support clinical reasoning, self-awareness, and ongoing professional growth.

Each report comprises self-assessment and supervisor feedback to provide a 360-degree review of your performance and attendance, using a structured online template in Sonia. The interim report acts as a checkpoint to identify any areas requiring additional support, while the final report determines your overall placement outcome. These reports not only verify your academic progress but also serve as important evidence of your professionalism, conduct, and clinical performance to support future employment.

Whilst total attendance and hours are logged within the Final Assessment, you will also report all absenteeism according to the requirements outlined in Moodle. Support is provided through Moodle, weekly Zoom sessions and as needed, before and during your clinical placement.

There is also a section where you are expected to critically reflect upon your clinical placement.

Both the Interim and the Final forms comprise two main sections: student self-assessment, and clinical supervisor assessment. These are broken down as follows:

Non-Ambulance Professional Practice Placement Report

• Final (Summative) Assessment: Student Self-Assessment
  • Domains of the AHPRA Professional Capabilities for Registered Paramedics
  • Professionalism
  • Reflection prompts.
• Final (Summative) Assessment: AHPRA Registered Supervisor Assessment
  • Domains of the AHPRA Professional Capabilities for Registered Paramedics
  • Professionalism
  • Reflection prompts

Ambulance Professional Practice Placement Report

• Interim (Formative) Assessment: Student Self-Assessment:
  • Domains of the AHPRA Professional Capabilities for Registered Paramedics
  • Professionalism
  • Reflection prompts.
• Interim (Formative) Assessment: Clinical Supervisor Assessment:
  • Domains of the AHPRA Professional Capabilities for Registered Paramedics
  • Professionalism
  • On-track to meet required outcomes of the clinical placement.

• Final (Summative) Assessment: Student Self-Assessment:
  • Domains of the AHPRA Professional Capabilities for Registered Paramedics
  • Professionalism
  • Skills log
  • Case type log
  • Reflection prompts
  • Clinical activity summary.
• Final (Summative) Assessment: Clinical Supervisor Assessment:
  • Domains of the AHPRA Professional Capabilities for Registered Paramedics
  • Professionalism
  • Achievement of required outcomes of the clinical placement.

Submission
These reports need to be submitted as an electronic form via Sonia directly to your clinical supervisor. You are responsible for completing your submissions with your clinical supervisor by the due dates.

The 72-hour grace period does NOT apply to this assessment.

Level of GenAI use allowed

Level 1: You must not use AI at any point in this assessment. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge.

This means that all student free-text fields in the Sonia form must be your own work in your own words, with no assistance from AI.

This is a Pass/Fail assessment. You must pass both placements to pass the unit.

You are assessed according to

• Successful completion of minimum hours for both placements
• Skills log: Accurately completes the skills log section of the Final (Summative) Clinical Supervisor Assessment.
• Case type log: Accurately completes the case log section of the Final (Summative) Clinical Supervisor Assessment.
• Clinical activity: Accurately completes the clinical activity section of the Final (Summative) Clinical Supervisor Assessment.
• The marking rubrics provided in Moodle for each placement; note that passing scores vary for best fit with each domain or criteria. The rubrics are based on the capabilities in the AHPRA Registered capabilities for professional paramedics (Ahpra 2021):
  • Domain 1: The professional and ethical practitioner
  • Domain 2: The communicator and the collaborator
  • Domain 3: The evidence-based practitioner
  • Domain 4: The safety and risk management practitioner
  • Domain 5: The paramedicine practitioner

The scores given to you by your Clinical Supervisor(s) are not the final say on your placement outcome; i.e. Unit Coordinators, not Clinical Supervisors, determine your outcome.

Where inconsistencies or concerns may arise around your clinical placement performance and/or professionalism, the Unit Coordinator will seek further information and clarity through discussions with the Clinical Supervisor(s) and other relevant people.

Refer to the Moodle page for full information and FAQ regarding this assessment task

Placements are a key part of your learning journey.  Reflecting on placement experiences enables you to draw additional value and learning from them.  

In this portfolio, you will complete a series of structured reflections and discussions exploring different aspects of your two placement experiences.  You will discuss and share your placement experience with others and also learn from the experiences of others.  Reflecting on and discussing your non-ambulance placement will provide you with an opportunity to learn about other health professionals and their context, building interprofessional education.  Comparing your non-ambulance and ambulance placement experiences will help you to develop your understanding and appreciation of the wider community healthcare chain.
Constructive reflection adds value when it leads to action. Each requires you to reflect on your experience and will lead you to develop SMART actions (promises to yourself) which you will take to develop your own professional practice.

There are four (4) parts to this assessment, due progressively throughout the term. Parts A, C and D are individual submissions, Part B requires participation in a Group Discussion but will be assessed individually.

• Part A: Non-Ambulance Healthcare Reflection (Due 0900 Friday Week 8)
• Part B: Group Discussion - Understanding the heath care JIGSAW (Due 0900 Friday Week 9)  (Note: Groups allocated by Unit Coordinator in Week 4)
• Part C: Ambulance Placement Reflection (Due 0900 Friday 2 weeks after placement)
• Part D: Bringing it all together (Due: 0900 Friday 2 weeks after placement)

Note: the assessment parts are due progressively throughout the term.  The 72 hour rule applies individually to each part.

You need to pass all four parts to pass this assessment.  You are allowed to resubmit one part.

Level of GenAI use allowed

Level 1: You must not use AI at any point in this assessment. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge.

This means that all student free-text fields in the Sonia form must be your own work in your own words, with no assistance from AI.

This reflective portfolio will be assessed on 

• Active discussion of placement activities demonstrating engagement with the placement experience
  • Active reflection of placement experiences identifying and describing diverse health care environments
  • Constructive sharing of knowledge of diverse non-ambulance healthcare contexts with others through critical thinking discussions
• Constructive and critical thinking of key concepts across multiple health contexts to demonstrate understanding and application of key concepts including
  • interprofessional education
  • cultural safety
  • patient centred care
  • bioethical principles
  • legislative and quality standards in action
  • health care pathways
  • professional communication and collaboration
• Development of reflective learning into personal professional development
  • Constructive consideration of mentor feedback across multiple contexts
  • Explain and plan personal professional practice improvement development activities

In Part B, disrespectful posts on the group discussion forums will be considered unprofessional communications and will result in a fail for that Part.

Each part will be individually assessed against the detailed rubrics provided in Moodle.

You must pass all each of Part A, B, C and D to pass this assessment.