PAR5107 · Community paramedicine 3

In this capstone unit, you will integrate advanced clinical knowledge, skills and professional capabilities developed throughout the Master of Paramedic Practitioner to assess and manage patients with complex healthcare needs. You will extend your advanced assessment, diagnostic reasoning and therapeutic decision-making across diverse and specialised healthcare contexts. You will consider how individual circumstances, diversity, health inequity, social determinants, vulnerability and access to care influence clinical presentations, decision-making and patient outcomes. Through various learning methods, complex clinical cases, and facilitated discussion, you will examine person-centred, culturally responsive and trauma-informed approaches to care, ethical and legal complexity, safeguarding, interprofessional and interagency coordination, leadership and professional autonomy. Capstone activities will require you to synthesise learning from across the course, evaluate practice, justify advanced clinical decisions and consider the role and contribution of the Paramedic Practitioner within complex clinical practice.

The Handbook lists an examination for this unit.

1. Specialised-population case study – (2,000 words)

   Exercise

   20%

2. Health equity and service improvement proposal – (2,500 words)

   Project

   30%

3. Objective Structured Clinical Assessment – (45 minutes)

   ExaminationCompetency

   50%

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit.

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

1. Integrate advanced diagnostic reasoning in the assessment of patients with complex healthcare needs.
2. Justify therapeutic decisions in the management of complex healthcare needs to optimise patient outcomes.
3. Adapt and justify care strategies to provide individualised patient-centred approaches responsive to cultural diversity.
4. Evaluate ethical, legal and professional considerations that impact on complex care clinical practice.
5. Integrate interprofessional and interagency care across health, social care and community systems to improve patient outcomes.
6. Synthesise leadership and professional autonomous decision making within complex care settings.
7. Evaluate the role of the Paramedic practitioner and the contribution to complex clinical practice.

12 hours of teacher directed study per week, including 8 hours of lectures and 4 hours of tutorials. 12 hours per week of self-directed study. Total per week = 24 hours

Credit points

12

Level

Level 5

Faculty

Department of Paramedicine

School

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Student contribution band

Band 2

Study abroad

Not available

Handbook version

2027.02

These are students' own experiences, not official rules. Go by the Handbook.