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PMSC28001 - Primary Healthcare Placement

General Information

Unit Synopsis

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

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 8
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Pre-requisites

PMSC20012 Primary healthcare 1

PMSC20013 Primary healthcare 2

Co-requisite

PMSC29001 Transition to Practice

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).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2021

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Mixed Mode
Term 1 - 2022 Profile
Mixed Mode
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Term 1 - 2023 Profile
Mixed Mode
Term 1 - 2024 Profile
Online
Term 2 - 2024 Profile
Online
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Online
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Online
Term 1 - 2026 Profile
Online
Term 2 - 2026 Profile
Online

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).

Assessment Overview

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.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 0%
2. Professional Practice Placement 0%

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.

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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.

Source: Self-reflection.
Feedback
Process for selection of placement sites needs streamlining.
Recommendation
During the residential school for PMSC20013, obtain a minimum of three primary healthcare clinical interest areas from students, the student's preference for local placement or their capacity to travel, and windows of time that placements can be attended. Advise students of a time limit of submission of this information, and from there the unit coordinator will source and arrange placements.
Action Taken
A face-to-face meeting with the student, the WIL team and the Unit Coordinator was held October 2024 emphasizing the importance of enrolling early and selecting placement facilities.
Source: Unit Coordinator reflections
Feedback
Recent developments in Advanced Practice in Paramedicine and possible endorsement by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) could impact this unit in the near future.
Recommendation
Monitor potential endorsement by AHPRA to ensure alignment with expectations.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Use research and critical reflection to produce a primary healthcare Work Integrated Learning placement plan
  2. Apply underpinning knowledge, clinical reasoning and practical skills to primary healthcare practice.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2
1 - Written Assessment •
2 - Professional Practice Placement •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2
1 - Knowledge • •
2 - Communication • •
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills • •
4 - Research • •
5 - Self-management • •
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility • •
7 - Leadership •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8
1 - Written Assessment • • • • • •
2 - Professional Practice Placement • • • • • • •