PAR5104 · Prehospital quality improvement and clinical leadership

Overview

In this unit, you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to design, lead, and implement quality improvement (QI) initiatives within prehospital and critical care settings. Centred around a student-led QI research project, you will apply critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills in the independent management of a chosen area of prehospital, critical care paramedic practice. You will integrate knowledge and skills in leadership, mentorship and emotional intelligence to effect change management while applying educational strategies that enable capacity development of your colleagues. The knowledge and skills you will gain in this unit, will enable you to collaborate effectively in translating research-based evidence into professional practice. Further to this you will learn to conceptualise feedback provided and reflect on your professional growth. In doing so, you will become a future-facing paramedic leader, capable of safe, effective and sustainable change within complex systems of care.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Synthesise quality improvement frameworks to evaluate gaps in prehospital and critical care.
2. Justify and implement an evidence-based quality-improvement project to optimise safety in critical care paramedicine.
3. Apply critical thinking, analytical, project management and problem-solving skills in the independent management of a research project.
4. Integrate leadership, mentorship and emotional intelligence strategies to effect change management within prehospital paramedic environments.
5. Apply advanced educational strategies which enable capability development and improved professional practice.
6. Collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary stakeholders to translate research evidence into professional practice.
7. Conceptualise and reflect on professional growth through feedback and reflexive practice.

Workload

You will be expected to complete at least 12 hours of distance education directed learning and a minimum of 12 hours of private study and self-directed learning per week.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.