On a fortnightly basis, you will complete a Placement Attendance & Performance Evaluation Report (PAPER) with your supervising Mentor. This report considers aspects of your clinical and professional performance on-road, including your performance as patient care officer, clinical procedures and skills, communication and teamwork skills, and your professional conduct, attitude, and demeanour. The PAPER template guides you and your Mentor through completion, and the form itself also provides comprehensive information for your Mentor on your current stage of learning, your expected performance levels, and information on support and assessment. Please see the unit Moodle site for a complete description of this assessment task, including completion guidelines and examples.

This task is designed to enhance the educational quality and value of your clinical placement by:

• Establishing clear expectations of students’ clinical performance and knowledge, enabling Mentors to frame assessment, feedback, and support at the appropriate level.
• Providing a framework for communication and feedback to guide and strengthen the Student - Mentor relationship.
• Recording your on-road performance on a week-by-week basis, to demonstrate achievement of unit learning objectives and assessment requirements.
• Ensure adherence to required standards of conduct and attendance during clinical placement.

It is important to note that these documents are not solely to confirm your completion of unit 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 do provide this sheet for Mentors. Where problems arise in terms of performance expectations one of the first things that is checked is completion of the Student Information Sheet.

• 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 three PAPERs with your mentors across the six weeks of your clinical placement according to the stated schedule: complete PAPER1 at end of second placement week, complete PAPER2 at end of fourth placement week, complete PAPER3 during (but before the end of) the sixth and final placement week.
• You will submit all three PAPERs together on the first Friday following completion of clinical placement.
• 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. Failure to obtain a signature from your mentor or OIC will result in your PAPER being return for all signatures. 
• You must complete the Marking Checklist prior to submission of the PAPER assessment.
• Notify the placement host by phone asap of any unplanned absenteeism; next notify the Unit Coordinator via email and attach a completed Absenteeism Report.
• Absences must be logged on the shift log, and arrangements made to complete missed hours. Minimum total hours apply.
• Minimum expectations of clinical performance grades are detailed within the assessment rubric on Moodle.
• Minimum expectations of professional conduct grades are detailed within the assessment rubric on Moodle.
• Students are expected to uphold the standards and requirements of the Clinical Placement Guidelines as provided within Moodle.
• 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.
• Please scan all pages of your PAPERs, and compile into ONE SINGLE PDF file. Instructions for this process are provided on Moodle.

Further information and examples of completed documentation are provided on Moodle.

Attendance and mentor reports are subject to validity checks with placement hosts.

Professional conduct:

Your professional conduct during clinical placement is subject to evaluation. Significant penalties, ranging from unit failure to course 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 all components of this assessment to pass the unit. This is a pass/fail assessment.

This term you will continue to use reflective practice activities to self-assess your own academic progress and to proactively manage your learning and development during on-road placement.

This assessment comprises a combination of clinical and non-clinical tasks presented in portfolio format. These tasks support your continued professional development through structured reflective practice activities and self-directed learning.

By continuing with this program of self-review through your final clinical placement, you will further cement the core skill set necessary to take charge of your academic and clinical professional development, both during this final clinical placement and future career with an Australian ambulance service.

The Portfolio comprises one workbook document, which must be completed to the required standard and submitted as a single combined PDF document. The portfolio will contain the following elements:

• Patient Care Officer Case Log.
• Post-Placement Self-Review.
• Clinical Case Reviews, completed to the required standard. Please review the example provided in Moodle. Substandard CCRs will be returned for completion.
• Clinical Skills Sign-Off Sheet.
• Clinical Questions
• DTP Sign-Off Sheet.
• Marking Checklist, to be completed by the student prior to submission.

The portfolio must be submitted as a single PDF file and uploaded to Moodle; please do not submit as image files, and please do not email these to your Lecturer. Please see the unit Moodle for a complete description and discussion of this assessment task, including completion guidelines and word count requirements as relevant.

An exemplar will be posted to the unit Moodle page for reference.