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BSc (Hons)
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Paramedic: Practice Development (top-up)
As a paramedic, it is important your skills are of the highest calibre to ensure a top level of service to patients.
Our BSc (Hons) Paramedic: Practice Development programme has been designed with local ambulance services to meet the educational needs of paramedics looking to continue their professional development. You will benefit from a flexible approach to learning that fits around your work shifts, allowing you to study through distance and work-based learning.
We have provided excellent training for paramedics since 2000, and our subject specialists have extensive experience in distance learning. You will leave with the knowledge and skills to move forward in your career, reaching senior levels of employment. So if you have got the ambition, we have the facilities and resources to help you achieve it.
Our flexible, modular programme of study provides a coherent scheme and progression route within paramedic practice, recognising and valuing prior experience and learning, and building on it.
The programme will provide you with the opportunity to develop intellectual, analytical, and problem solving skills which encourage the development of mature and independent decision making and reasoned clinical judgement within emergency and urgent care. You'll develop conceptual knowledge and practical understanding of how techniques of scientific enquiry enable the critical analysis, interpretation and application of contemporary evidence within pre-hospital and emergency care. Develop graduate key attributes within the lifelong learning context.
We'll facilitate your development as a leader and change agent, able to respond to a dynamic environments and contemporary issues in practice, and provide a learning experience which promotes a collaborative approach within learning and practice, and effective multi-agency working with the patient at the centre of care.
What you will learn
Our flexible, modular programme of study provides a coherent scheme and progression route within paramedic practice, recognising and valuing prior experience and learning, and building on it.
The programme will provide you with the opportunity to develop intellectual, analytical, and problem solving skills which encourage the development of mature and independent decision making and reasoned clinical judgement within emergency and urgent care. You'll develop conceptual knowledge and practical understanding of how techniques of scientific enquiry enable the critical analysis, interpretation and application of contemporary evidence within pre-hospital and emergency care. Develop graduate key attributes within the lifelong learning context.
Modules
Core
Evidence Based Practice - 20 credits
Students choose one
Negotiated Learning - 20 credits
Dissertation - 40 credits
Optional
Emergency Clinical Decision Making and Problem Solving - 20 credits
Clinical Reasoning and Assessment Skills in Healthcare (CRASH) - 20 credits
Clinical Complexity in Emergency Care - 20 credits
Emergency Care of Women and Children - 20 credits
Consultation and Physical Examination: Health Assessment Skills - 20 credits
Advancing Mental Health Across The Healthcare Spectrum (Intermediate Level) - 20 credits
Pathophysiology and Diseases in Practice - 20 credits
Medicines- Therapeutics and Pharmacology - 20 credits
Care of Minor Illness and Minor Injuries - 20 credits
Management of Major Illness and Major Trauma - 20 credits
Acute and Critical Care: Foundations for Practice - 20 credits
Acute Care: Contemporary Issues Independent Study - 20 credits
Patient Safety in Acute and Critical Care - 20 credits
Disaster Response - 20 credits
Humanitarian Action - 20 credits
Multiprofessional Support of Learning and Assessment in Practice - 20 credits
Clinical Supervision - 20 credits
Leadership and Change - 20 credits
Work Based Learning - 20 credits
Negotiated Learning - 20 credits
Negotiated Learning - 10 credits
Pathway modules
Critical care Pathway
Core Assessment and Monitoring of the Critically Ill Adult Explore applied pathophysiology, assessment and monitoring of the critically ill adult and associated pharmacology, recovery from critical illness and support of patient and their families.
Critical Care: Contemporary Issues Develop your theoretical knowledge and skills, following on from the completion of your Step 2 to Step 3 competencies to assess, manage and care for the complex critically ill adult. There are a number of specialist learning pathways available.
Work based learning module The work based learning module supports the completion of your Step competencies in practice and underpinned by the theoretical content of the other two modules. This module runs for 2 semesters.
Applicants who do not hold 120 level 5 credits, but who demonstrate at interview and through submission of a portfolio of evidence, an equivalent level of knowledge gained through relvant work based qualifications and / or experience, may be allowed entry to the programme. This decision will be at the discretion of the programme leader and does not constitute the award of credit via APEL.
To access this course you must be a qualified paramedic, registered with the Health Care and Professions Council or an equivalent and presently working in an emergency ambulance service or similar accident and emergency/first contact health care practice environment or appropriate setting. You will need to provide a statement from your current employer who must make reference to your professional competence.
Tuition fees are set annually and are subject to review each year. The University may therefore raise tuition fees in the second or subsequent years of a course, in line with inflation and/or the maximum permitted by law or government policy. Students will be notified of any changes as soon as possible.
Online learning at the University of Cumbria is an interactive experience that makes use of a range of technologies and media types to provide a rich learning environment.
An Open Day is your opportunity to explore one of 5 campuses, meet your lecturers, and find out how the University of Cumbria could become your new home.
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