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Please note that this Unit Profile is still in progress. The content below is subject to change.Overview
This unit offers you clinical experiences where you can transition your underpinning knowledge, skills and decision-making into practice as a paramedic with a primary healthcare focus. Workplace learning focuses on the supervised assessment, diagnosis and management of patients within the primary healthcare environment.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisites PMSC20012 Primary Healthcare 1 PMSC20013 Primary Healthcare 2 Co-requisite PMSC29001 Transition to Practice Please note: Any student who has within the last 12 months NOT attended the PMSC20013 Primary Healthcare 2 residential school MUST contact the Unit Coordinator to arrange repeat attendance of the PMSC20013 residential school at their own cost PRIOR to undertaking any clinical placement.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2023
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Self-reflection based upon WIL mentor report form
Ensure a variety of WIL placements.
Work-integrated learning placements are to be undertaken at a minimum of two placement sites.
Feedback from Self-reflection
Create an electronic version of the mentor report form.
Work with the WIL team to create an electronic version of the mentor report form in Sonia, for document integrity and ease of use while on placement.
- Use research and critical reflection to produce a primary healthcare Work Integrated Learning placement plan
- Apply underpinning knowledge, clinical reasoning and practical skills to primary healthcare practice.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |
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1 | 2 | |
1 - Written Assessment - 0% | ||
2 - Professional Practice Placement - 0% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |
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1 | 2 | |
1 - Knowledge | ||
2 - Communication | ||
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||
4 - Research | ||
5 - Self-management | ||
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||
7 - Leadership | ||
8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures |
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)