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 Mentor Reports will be have a component of self assessment as well as capture supervisor feedback on performance and attendance, via an online template. You will complete these reports together with your mentor(s) so that you can discuss the feedback and grade choices. Your mentors or your OIC may be 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.

In the absence of an approved assessment extension (supported by sufficient documentation), late submissions will incur a 5% per day reduction to you overall mark for this assessment item.  Please refer to the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher education course work) for more information on this.

The pass mark for your Mentor Reports are 50%. You will need to obtain a pass for each assessment item in order pass the unit, as this is a pass/fail non-graded unit.

Whilst attending placement you will provide the Mentor Report template and Scope of Practice document to the station OIC and all mentors that you work with. These provide information on appropriate performance expectations, the goals of this placement phase, and on the performance and self-review process. Appropriate feedback and grading from your mentor depends upon their access to this information. Your submission must meet the following criteria to pass this assessment task:

• You must attend all scheduled shifts as a minimum of Mentor Reports apply
• You will complete 2 Mentor Reports, one for each fortnight
• You will submit both mentor reports together on the first Friday following completion of your final placement week, if not before
• All fields must be completed in full according to directions on the cover page at the front of the document
• The 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, followed by the completion of the Absenteeism Notification form in Moodle and notify your Unit Coordinators via email (paramedic.placements@cqu.edu.au)
• Absences must be logged on the shift log, however there is no allowance for make-up shifts with QAS
• Minimum expectations of clinical performance and professional conduct grades are detailed within the submission checklist found on Moodle under the Assessment tile
• Direct reports from industry of student misconduct, or of significant concerns regarding clinical performance and/or behaviour, are investigated fully and may impact successful completion of this unit
• Details on the electronic completion and submission of your mentor reports will be on the Moodle page
• Attendance and mentor reports are subject to random validity checks with placement hosts.

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

For this assessment task you are required to submit a multi-media presentation in the format of a Grand Rounds 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, or at the very least played an active role in the clinical assessment, decision making and treatment of the patient in this case. 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, in the format of:

• Chief complaint and history of present illness
• Past Medical History including allergies, medications and social history
• Patient assessment and physical examination findings
• Impression, differential diagnosis and then main diagnosis
• Pathophysiology and manifestations of your working diagnosis
• Epidemiology of the condition
• Treatment 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 remote with extended transport times
• Patient Prognosis
• References in APA referencing style.

In the absence of an approved assessment extension (supported by sufficient documentation), late submissions will incur a 5% per day reduction to you overall mark for this assessment item. Please refer to the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher education course work) for more information on this.

The pass mark for this presentation is 50%. You will need to obtain a pass for each assessment item in order pass the unit, as this is a pass/fail non-graded unit.

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 above and be de-identified
• Avoid superficial points, use of slang or in appropriate personal comments
• You will need to include images, diagrams, tables and text as required
• Pathophysiology text needs to be referenced in APA style
• Patient confidentiality and anonymity 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.

You will complete one online quiz which will consist of multiple choice questions, True/False and Sequence questions, exploring content included in the unit (such as, but not limited to, lecture materials, links and required readings).  Content for the quiz is based on the previous weekly topics (as detailed in the schedule). The quiz will be open for 1 week, failure to complete the quiz in this time will result in a fail of the assessment item and ultimately the unit.

You will need to obtain a pass for each assessment item in order pass the unit.

Marks are awarded if a question is answered correctly and the total marks are tallied after the quiz has been attempted. Non-attempts will score a zero mark.  The quiz is open-book, so the use of Clinical Practice Guidelines, book chapters, journal articles etc are allowed. Please take note that this is an individual assessment. Collaboration is not allowed and may lead to disciplinary action.

The quiz will have a specific time limit imposed to complete the quiz.

In the absence of an approved extension, there will be no opportunity to complete the task after the due date, and there will be no opportunity to apply a late penalty of five percent per day. The quiz may not be re-attempted.

You are required to achieve an overall mark of at least 50% to pass this assessment item, and therefore pass the unit.