Report formatting

• Presentation and layout: Layout formatting of the report body must be consistent and correct APA style as stipulated; cover page includes name and student number, unit ID, due date and any extension status, and calculated word count (excluding citations, reference list, and attached appendixes).
• Content: All required subsections are present and completed as directed.
• Style: This task requires writing at the standard of a third-year undergraduate student. Information is presented in a clear & logical sequence; written in academic style; conforms to word count; and demonstrates correct grammar and spelling.
• Referencing: All sources must be cited and referenced appropriately throughout this task in correct APA style; ensure that you use the Library guide for APA style.
• Word count: 2,000 words +/-10%, excluding the cover page, in-text citations, the reference list and appendixes. Calculate your word count minus exclusions prior to submission and include this on the cover page.
• Late submissions: Late submissions will be accepted, but penalties will accrue at 5% for every calendar day past the due date.
• Academic integrity: All submissions are subject to review of the associated Turnitin report.
• Cover page: State the title of your paper, your name and student number, this unit code, and the word count excluding the exclusions (title page, in-text citations, reference list and attached appendixes). Start these 1/3 down from the top, and make them horizontally centred.
• Layout and formatting: No fancy templates on the cover page or on the sides of each page of the report; keep the background plain and white.
• Margins: One-inch margins (2.54cm) on all sides (usually MS Word default margins).
• Alignment: Left margin alignment throughout; do NOT use justified margins.
• Body indentation: The first line of each paragraph of the report body is indented 3-5 characters.
• Font: Times New Roman or Arial font, size 12. Either is fine, but use just one font for the entire document.
• Spacing: Double spacing throughout the entire document; no extra returns after each paragraph or reference (this is why we have the indentations, headings, and hanging indents)
• Headings: Section headings are centred and bolded in sentence case; use the headings provided for each question within the content section of this assessment task.
• Reference list: Strictly as per APA requirements. 

Content

• This assignment should be written in an essay style format. It must include an introduction to the topic discussed and contain elements such as definitions, pathophysiology, and epidemiology.
• The recognition section should thoroughly explore the clinical features associated with the topic encompassing subtle signs and symptoms through to a patient in extremes.
• Consideration of differential diagnoses should be mentioned with associated medial signs or history-related factors that might indicate other pathologies.
• The management section must contain peer-reviewed, evidence-based, best practice to support the most reasonable prehospital treatment in line with the patients presenting condition.
• The conclusion should culminate into a Clinical Practice Guidelines flow chart, including the relevant Drug Therapy Protocol regimes for the new nationalised standard base on the evidence you have accumulated.
• Note: A flow chart of the CPG and associated DTP are required to be attached as appendixes. These attachments will not be included in your overall word count. 

You will be required to complete two (2) online quizzes; the first will close at the end of Week 5, the second at the end of Week 9. The quizzes will open on Monday at 08:00 the week when the quiz is due and close the following Sunday at midnight, and each will have a specific time limit imposed.

The quizzes will be made up of multiple-choice, short and long answer questions exploring content based upon previous weeks content (including lecture materials, online modules, links and required reading).

Quizzes are accumulative and the content will aggregate across both quizzes.

Quiz 1 Online (Due Week 5)

This is to review and assess the content that was delivered from Week 1 to Week 4 of Consolidated Paramedic Practice.

This quiz will comprise multiple-choice, short and long answer questions.

You will receive 2 attempts at the quiz. Your results from your first attempt will not be made available or feedback supplied prior to your second attempt if you chose to attempt it. Your highest mark will be taken from your result in one quiz, and not an accumulation of the two attempts.

Assessment Requirements:

Please access the Online Quiz 1 in the Assessment Block on the Moodle page for PMSC13010.

Quiz 2 Online (Due Week 9)

This is to review and assess the content that was delivered from Week 4 to Week 8 of Consolidated Paramedic Practice.

This quiz will comprise of multiple-choice, short and long answer questions.

You will receive 2 attempts at the quiz. Your results from your first attempt will not be made available or feedback supplied prior to your second attempt if you chose to attempt it. Your highest mark will be taken from your result in one quiz, and not an accumulation of the two attempts.

Assessment Requirements:

Please access the Online Quiz 2 in the Assessment Block on the Moodle page for PMSC13010.

PLEASE NOTE: The marks for online quizzes 1 and 2 will be combined – to pass you must attempt both quizzes one and two and achieve an overall pass mark of 75% in total. These quizzes MUST be submitted by the times indicated in the assessment tasks. This is an individual assessment with no collaboration allowed. In the absence of an approved extension, there will be no opportunity to complete the tasks after the specified dates, and there will be no opportunity to apply a late penalty of five percent per day.

You must achieve a total of 75% combining the results of the two quizzes with the inability to do so resulting in a fail for the unit.

This unit has three (3) assessment items. Each assessment is a Pass/Fail. You must pass each individual assessment item in order to pass the unit.

You will complete your practical assessments during the residential school for this unit. During this practical assessment you will complete four tasks as follows:

• 2x 20-minute case management simulations, and
• 2x 10-minute skill stations.

The 20-minute case management simulations will assess your capacity to manage a realistic clinical case scenario. During these scenarios, you shall demonstrate competency at a graduate level in all aspects of case management, including communication and teamwork skills, clinical judgement, decision-making, and scene management.

The 10-minute skill stations may comprise any of the following assessment types either individually or as a collective assessment:

• Short examination. 
• Skills demonstrations.
• Verbal short questions and answers.

Grading for the scenarios and the skill stations will be explained in detail prior to the residential school. During the residential school, you will have time to practice your skills and scenario management prior to assessment days.

You must pass all tasks to pass the residential school. The pass mark for each assessment piece is 75%

The assessment criteria for the residential school component of this unit is as follows:

• You must pass all four assessment tasks to pass the residential school.
• To pass each assessment task you must attain a minimum grade of 75%.
• One (1) resit will be offered to correspond to the assessment piece a passing grade was not awarded. 
• Inability to achieve a pass on two or more assessments initially will result in a fail for the unit and a resist will not be offered.
• Inability to achieve a pass on any resit attempted will result in a fail for the unit.

Further assessment criteria and relevant points are as follows:

• All resits will be conducted at the end of the residential school
• All clinical management decisions, procedures, and drug therapies must be in accordance with Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) guidelines and protocols as current at the date of assessment.
• If you are an interstate student currently practising with your home statutory service, please contact the Unit Coordinator directly during the term to discuss the use of alternative guidelines or protocols during residential assessments.

Critical Errors: Critical errors in this unit will be classed as anything, by act or omission, that causes immediate harm or the potential to cause harm, to yourself, partner, patient or bystanders or any procedure that is performed outside your scope of practice. During any form of assessment, if any of the following critical errors are witnessed, if safety permits, the scenario will continue however, the assessment will be graded as a fail. Furthermore, any critical error discovered on review or moderation will also result in no marks being given for that particular assessment:

· Unsafe defibrillation

· Incorrect joules delivered during defibrillation

· Defibrillation of a non-shockable rhythm

· Failure to recognise a cardiac arrest (>30 seconds)

· Failure to shock a shockable rhythm in a timely manner (<1 minute)

· Failure to perform a complete drug check

· Incorrect sharps disposal or unsafe practice with a sharp

· Performing a skill or procedure or administering an incorrect drug/drug dosage outside your scope of practice

· Any grossly unsafe practice, as determined by the assessing academic.

If you do not understand any of the above, please do not hesitate to clarify with your unit coordinator.

This unit has three (3) assessment items. Each assessment is a Pass/Fail. You must pass each individual assessment item in order to pass the unit.