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Courses Handbook 2014

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2014.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2013.

314481 (v.1) Paramedic Professional Practice 264

Area: School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits: 25.0
TUITION PATTERNS: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Individual Study: 12 x 3 Hours Semester
Online Class: 12 x 1 Hours Semester
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus: The paramedic’s role within the health care team in primary and acute care settings. Ethics, bioethics and legal issues in paramedic practice. Confidentiality, capacity and consent. Professional practice framework, professional rights and responsibilities, record keeping, governance. Consumer rights in advocacy and health care. Integrated health care including mental health. Communication with critically unstable clients across the lifespan (critically ill, altered mental state, acute mental health crisis, altered consciousness) and their families. Communication, negotiation and problem solving (interaction with peers, clients and inter-professional teams). Equity and diversity. Living wills. Preservation of client centred care along the continuum of client's rights from self-determination to custodial care. Recognition and reporting of abuse. Clinical decision making. Preserving evidence and victim support.
Field of Education: 069905 Paramedical Studies
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2014 Bentley Campus Semester 2     Y    

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External


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