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BSc (Hons) - 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.

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Course Overview

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.

On this course you will...

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Course Structure

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.
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    Online Learning

    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.

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