PMSC29002 - Human Performance Optimisation in Complex Environments

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Prehospital critical care requires the application of advanced theoretical frameworks and practical skills in high stimulus, high cognitive load environments with potential life and death consequences. Optimal clinician performance is expected in every patient interaction. Resilience to duplicate excellence during each interaction, sometimes multiple times a day is required throughout a clinician's career. Through an understanding of human factors related to mental and physical performance and personal-surveillance, you will apply research-based personal interventions to optimise your performance in multiple critical care domains.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 9
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the unit.

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 - 2024

Term 1 - 2024 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 50%
2. Written Assessment 50%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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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: SUTE
Feedback
"The lecturer's style and quality of teaching were of a high standard, and his videos were professional and well structured. I was only disappointed with the content - dietary assignments etc and struggled to connect how it relates to critical care pre-hospital. Maybe the wrong degree for this. The leadership content, however was helpful and very useful."
Recommendation
Performance in the physical and cognitive domains of critical care paramedicine will be parsed and explained more clearly to elucidate the connections with dietary behaviours in future iterations of this course.
Action Taken
Performance in the physical and cognitive domains and the effect of lifestyle behaviours were clearly explained during Term 1, 2023.
Source: Unit coordinator reflection.
Feedback
There is limited evaluation data for Term 1, 2023. Low response rates are likely due to the additional avenues for feedback through other learning resources such as formal Evaluations and CQU Success. While students performed well and engaged with the unit content based on CQUSuccess data, feedback is needed to iterate on the quality of the offering.
Recommendation
Students will be informed of the importance of rich feedback data to inform the development and ongoing success of the unit. Additional strategies will be provided in future offerings to explain the relevance of the different avenues of feedback and their relevance.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Identify human factors associated with optimal physical and psychological performance within complex clinical environments
  2. Utilise communication strategies to mitigate the incidence of medical error or negligence in complex clinical environments
  3. Employ techniques to mitigate acute stress responses within complex clinical environments
  4. Develop, articulate and implement physical and psychological resilience initiatives across an organisation.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4
1 - Written Assessment • •
2 - Written Assessment • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Advanced Level
• Professional Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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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
• Advanced Level
• Professional Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 - Written Assessment • • • • • • •
2 - Written Assessment • • • • • • •