During your second clinical placement, you will continue to develop your clinical skills and knowledge in the prehospital environment, transitioning to an intermediate level of practice under the support and guidance of your supervising paramedic crew. A major aspect of your continued development is mentor feedback, providing you with independent commentary on your current clinical performance from the point of view of industry colleagues. The Placement Attendance & Performance Evaluation Reports (PAPERs) capture supervisor feedback on performance and attendance in written format for assessment.

This assessment task guides you and your crew through a review process designed to promote self-assessment on your part, and to prompt the most practical and useful type of feedback from mentors. You will complete these reports together with your supervising paramedic(s) so that you can discuss the feedback and grade choices. Your mentors or your OIC are also required to complete details of shift attendance and professional conduct for the purpose of academic verification.

It is important to note that these documents are not solely to confirm your completion of course requirements; they are equally valuable as evidence logs of your professionalism, conduct, and clinical performance that will support your future employment applications. For these reasons they are arguably the most valuable documents from your clinical placement, and it is imperative that you are diligent in completing them with your mentors as instructed.

Whilst attending placement you will provide a copy of the Student Information Sheet to all mentors that you work with. This sheet provides information on appropriate performance expectations, the goals of this placement phase, and on the performance review process. Appropriate feedback and grading from your mentor depends upon their access to this information, and it also provides University contact details in the event of emergencies or problems, so please ensure that you follow this simple request.

Your submission must meet the following criteria to pass this assessment task:

• You must attend all scheduled shifts for both placement rotations. Minimum placement hours apply.
• You will complete one PAPER for Rotation One, and another PAPER for Rotation Two.
• You will submit both PAPERs together on the first Friday following completion of your final placement rotation.
• All fields must be completed in full according to directions on the Information Sheet at the front of the document.
• Your shift attendance log must be verified as true and correct by either one of your mentors or your station OIC.
• Notify the placement host by phone asap of any unplanned absenteeism; next complete the Absenteeism Notification form in Moodle and notify the Course Coordinator via email. Absences must be logged on the shift log, and arrangements made to complete missed hours.
• Minimum expectations of clinical performance and professional conduct grades are detailed within the submission checklist on the back of each PAPER.
• Direct reports from industry of student misconduct, or of significant concerns regarding clinical performance, are investigated fully and may impact successful completion of this assessment task.
• Direct industry reports can delay return of PAPERs due to the time delay incurred in gaining reports from shift-working paramedics and OICs, and subsequent investigations.
• Please scan all pages of your PAPERs, and compile into ONE SINGLE PDF file for submission via Moodle.

Further information and examples of completed documentation are provided on Moodle. Attendance and mentor reports are subject to random validity checks with placement hosts.

Professional conduct:

Your professional conduct during clinical placement is subject to evaluation. Significant penalties, ranging from course failure to program expulsion, exist for students whose conduct and/or actions breach University policies and/or those of the industry placement host. Direct lines of communication exist between placement hosts and the University, and all complaints or concerns raised by industry representatives will be fully investigated. In such circumstances both student and industry perspectives are sought.

Please review the policies and rubrics for this assessment task prior to placement; these are available on the Moodle assessment page.

You must submit and pass this assessment to pass the course. This is a pass/fail assessment.

For this assessment task you are required to submit a multi-media presentation. This presentation will be dedicated to a patient that you attended while on your clinical placement. You must use a case for which you were Patient Care Officer, you cannot use a case where you were an observer or second officer. You may utilise any media for your presentation, such as voice over PowerPoint, Prezi, or YouTube, however, it must contain both verbal and written elements.

Your grand rounds presentation must detail the following elements:

• Chief complaint and history of present illness
• Past Medical History including allergies, medications and social history
• Patient assessment and physical exam findings
• Impression, differential diagnosis and then main diagnosis
• Pathophysiology, manifestations of your working diagnosis
• Epidemiology of the condition
• Treatments and management plan and how those affected your patient
• Any difficulties with this case
• Reflect on the management provided to this patient.
• How would your management change if you were in a different environment i.e rural/urban.
• Patient Prognosis
• References in APA style.

The presentation will be assessed in accordance with the rubric and information provided on the unit’s Moodle page. The following criteria are key points to be included:

• A recorded narration is required
• The presentation must address each of the main topic tasks as detailed in the task description
• Avoid superficial points or comments
• As this is a presentation, you should include images where appropriate, but these must be referenced in APA style
  
• Patient confidentiality must be maintained at all times
• The presentation has no specified length in regards to the number of slides used, but the recorded presentation should be a minimum of 5 minutes and no longer than 7 minutes in duration
• All citations and references must be formatted in APA style
  
• This is a pass/fail assessment.