PARAMEDIC SCIENCE 3 - 2025/6

Module Overview

This final module provides a sequential and integrated learning experience using theory and practice, by a spiraling of content that supports student development. It will prepare students to demonstrate proactive leadership acting as change agents to challenge practice in order to enhance people¿s wellbeing and experience of health care; integrating evidence into their clinical and scholarly practice, becoming an accountable evidence-based professional. Practice within simulation and placement will enable students to draw together learning from university blocks, by consolidating their knowledge and proficencies within clinical practice in preparation for professional registration.

Module provider

School of Health Sciences

Module Leader

ADLER Charlie (Health Sci.)

Number of Credits: 0

ECTS Credits: 0

Framework: FHEQ Level 6

Module cap (Maximum number of students): N/A

Module Availability

Crosses academic years

Prerequisites / Co-requisites

None

Module content

· Knowledge and evidence base underpinning assessment and management of the deteriorating patient.       

· How to analyse and synthesise assessment data to inform evidence based care in complex clinical situations        

· Psychosocial and ethical perspectives in the management of the patient and family members

· Confident and competent decision making skills and how to role model professional behaviour    

· Autonomous leadership in situations of varying complexity in both emergency and non-emergency situations.              

· How human factors contribute to clinical errors and incidents and how service provision develops from incident reporting and investigation.       

· Communication strategies to enhance care quality and recognise the importance of duty of candor.    

· Reflective practice skills for personal and professional development

· Quality improvement methodologies and processes, how to read and apply data, use of epidemiological data, service evaluation, audit, risk management

· Key ethical issues in research and the role of the ethics committees, as well as the principles of good clinical practice within clinical research      

· Hierarchy of evidence and the application of evidence to practice guidelines and policy      

· Quantitative and qualitative research design, methods, and analysis, including basic statistics 

· Research policy and funding and the research architecture of the NHS       

· Importance and relevance of patient and public involvement in research    

· Retrieve, review and critically appraise information and published literature within a field of practice        

· Rationale for and processes used when making decisions and the influence of  personal judgement

· Decision making theories and models using critical thinking, active listening and questioning to evaluate care and improve decision making processes in a professional, compassionate, empowering and ethically sensitive manner  

· Role of risk assessment and risk management strategies to a range of care decisions to ensure safe and effective care      

· Role of e-technology and decision trees in clinical decision making

· Non-medical prescribing:

· Pharmacology – non-medical prescribing content

· Infection prevention and control, communicable disease surveillance, antimicrobial resistance and stewardship

· Understanding the wider role of the HCP

· Identification and reporting of near misses, critical incidents, major incidents and serious adverse events. Sharing feedback and learning.

· Human factors, safe staffing, skill mix, team working, escalation of concerns including national guidance, team reflection and debriefing.

· Working in stressful and difficult situations, recognising when we are vulnerable, compassionate self-care

· Leadership and role modelling leading – compassionate leadership

· Critical care/crisis intervention, decision making, consideration of alternative diagnosis, advanced communication (noticing and listening, challenging conversations), Ethical debate and dilemmas when evidence may be conflicting

· Human Rights legislation (including safe guarding), rights of the child, sexual and reproductive rights, legal and ethical frameworks, mandatory reporting duties.

· Wider public health role - Social circumstances including poverty, homelessness, trafficking, slavery, criminal justice system, domestic abuse, refugees

 

 

Assessment pattern

Alternative Assessment

None

Assessment Strategy

The assessment strategy is designed to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate a wide range of practice-based competencies in order to achieve the criteria set by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Standards of Proficiency (2016) and College of Paramedics Curriculum Guidance 5th Edition (2019).

Thus, the summative assessments for this module consists of:

• Practice Development Project;
  
  
  
  
  • Part 1: Identify an area of practice that requires change, including a literature review and consideration of practice (5500 words)
  
  
  • Part 2: Recommendations for practice based on part 1 (2500 words)
  
  
  
  


• Complex Programme Specific OSCE / VIVA


• Medicines management & pharmacology


• Practice Assessment Document


• Autonomous Practice Essay

• Formative 1 - project plan 


• Formative 2 - OSCE / VIVA practice 


• Formative 3 -  medicines management

• Self-tests, physical/ mental assessment/ Pharmacology


• OSCE/VIVA


• Simulation with actors


• Reflective learning journal

• Continuous feedback from lecturers & actors within university learning blocks


• Continuous feedback from practice whilst on placement learning blocks


• Online feedback


• Peer feedback


• Personal tutor feedback


• Service user and carer feedback

Module aims

• Develop confident, competent and responsive practitioners with the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to deliver and lead high quality evidence-based nursing care across a range of healthcare environments. Enable students to act with professional integrity and demonstrate achievement of the professional standards as defined by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Standards of Proficiency (2016) and College of Paramedics Curriculum Guidance 5th Edition (2019).
  
• Prepare students to deliver safe and compassionate evidence-based, person centered care; whilst demonstrating the values and attitudes in keeping with non-discriminatory practice and an orientation towards holistic care.
  
• To facilitate partnership working with health and social care professionals, service users, carers and families, acknowledging the contribution of a collaborative approach to care and the importance of education for health.
  
• Enable students to contribute to the planning, design and delivery of care by leading, delegating, supervising and challenging other nurses and health care professionals.
  
• "To develop the capacity to adapt to change and identify and initiate innovations in practice.
  Facilitate the development of clinical, analytical and reflective thinking skills with the ability to distil research impacts, integrate and combine sources of knowledge."
  
• Develop a commitment to life long and independent learning through self-awareness, emotional literacy and reflective practice.
  

Learning outcomes

Methods of Teaching / Learning

  The learning and teaching strategy is designed to incorporate the following:

• Simulation


• Seminars


• Online – self-test / additional learning materials / discussion boards / student forums/MOOC


• Classroom discussions


• Student-led seminars and presentations


• Problem based learning


• Case studies / scenarios


• Experiential learning


• Practice placement experience

Indicated Lecture Hours (which may also include seminars, tutorials, workshops and other contact time) are approximate and may include in-class tests where one or more of these are an assessment on the module. In-class tests are scheduled/organised separately to taught content and will be published on to student personal timetables, where they apply to taken modules, as soon as they are finalised by central administration. This will usually be after the initial publication of the teaching timetable for the relevant semester.

Reading list

https://readinglists.surrey.ac.uk
Upon accessing the reading list, please search for the module using the module code: HCR3021

Other information

The School of Health Sciences Paramedic Science programme is committed to developing graduates with strengths in Employability, Digital Capabilities, Global and Cultural Capabilities, Sustainability, and Resourcefulness and Resilience. This module is designed to allow students to develop knowledge, skills, and capabilities in the following areas:

Digital capabilities:

Students will evaluate the digital transformation of care, having opportunities to engage with digital technology to support healthcare leading to a cultural transformation and the democratisation of care to improve health outcomes, lowering cost of care and improving the human care experience. Through the development of recommendations for further research and potential changes to guidelines that inform clinical practice.

Students are also required to develop and evidence proficiency in effectively utilising general digital search tools and specialist online health science databases as part of their research and study throughout their degree. They will be supported in reaching such proficiency with ongoing learning and guidance from the School and from the University whilst demonstrating the ability to undertake a substantive project with independent study.

 Employability:

Placements provide the opportunity for students to build connections and relationships that will impact on their future employability and career development to transition into an autonomous practitioner.

The final placement provides the opportunity to develop and evidence their leadership and decision-making skills as they prepare to enter the professional world as registrants.

The variety of assessments are designed to replicate the demands and circumstances of modern professional practice and the programme seeks to complement and scaffold students professional outlook and application through the provision of comprehensive clinical activities and other specialist activities such as change agency and reflective practice.

All students will be offered the opportunity to develop their skills in CV writing, interview skills, and the application process to assist in bridging the transition between study and employment.

Nursing and midwifery students are offered a developmental package which enables them to undertake the supervision of other learners at the point of qualification. 

Global and cultural capabilities:

Students will be supported to develop cultural sensitivity which relates to the importance of respect, trust and empathy in therapeutic relationships.

Their role in promoting cultural awareness when working with colleagues in practice and challenge their own and for others thinking to advocate for service-users, relatives, carers and key stakeholders.

Resourcefulness and Resilience:

Students are guided to develop the ability to reflect, evaluate, adapt, and respond flexibly to unforeseen circumstances throughout the module and in the clinical environment.  This pillar is fundamental to the development of effective and safe health professionals. Scenario based examples are used to develop students’ ability to respond effectively to changing situations.  These skills are tested through formative and summative assessments and in the clinical environment.  Students are supported to engage with Wellbeing services and are encouraged to foster resilience through peer support.  An integrated programmatic approach and scaffolding helps with both the development of knowledge throughout the academic year and programme and highlights the importance of assessment for learning in the journey of the student.  In the ever changing world resilience skills sustain themselves in challenging and difficult working climates.

Sustainability:

Healthcare resources are finite and this module will explore the role of health promotion in providing service users with information to make good choices regarding health behaviours.  This will give learners the knowledge and skills to compassionately address current inequalities and maximize long term outcomes which may positively impact on their own and the world’s sustainable development.  We have a philosophy which aims to create the future healthcare workforce which is fit for today but which is also future proofed through consideration of an ever changing healthcare landscape. Students will focus on global challenges of our era that are the focus of current policy processes to develop the necessary social skill as global citizens by focusing on social issue (e.g., increase of uptake of vaccines) from the perspective of diverse target audience.

Programmes this module appears in

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