Paramedic Science

You’ll cover the application of mental health within the scope of paramedic practice. As part of your training you’ll learn how to hone your interpersonal skills, problem-solving skills and decision-making skills to easily apply them to the mental health needs of others across their lifespan.

Your diagnosis of mental health issues will be underpinned by your knowledge of psychosocial and biomedical theories. You’ll be trained to carry out mental health assessments, care planning, and intervention across a range of disorders encountered in Paramedic practice.

In this module you’ll address key methods of investigation used in the healthcare world to enable the identification of solutions relevant to your field of practice. You’ll be introduced to research methodology, recruitment, data collection, research techniques, and ethical considerations associated with health and social care research.

At the heart of this module will be the opportunity to focus on a broad spectrum of research designs, which will prepare you for completing an evidence-based research proposal/project in your final year of the BSc (Hons) degree. 

Central to this module will be the development of your systematic and comprehensive approach to making sound clinical decisions in terms of service user assessment and management strategies across a range of non-urgent, urgent and emergency situations.

You’ll be exploring the facilitation of minimally supervised delivery of care across the life span, taking into account complex process issues with service users belonging to vulnerable groups. 

In this module, you’ll take a whole-body approach to identifying disordered physiological processes associated with disease and injury throughout the lifespan.

You’ll build your knowledge gained during your Level 4 studies in Anatomy & Physiology - Application to Paramedic Science.  You will have the opportunity to relate information learned from this module to the management of patients in practice with a variety of diseases and disorders.

Immerse yourself in experiential workplace learning in this hands-on module. You’ll put yourself in the centre of a practical placement across a range of clinical environments under the supervision of an expert healthcare professional. There will be the opportunity to build upon your knowledge, understanding, skills and assessment achieved in Year 1.

Alongside practice placement, developing clinical practice for paramedic will include a number of insightful theory-based sessions on campus to further support your development in this year of education. 

This module will prepare you for managing the complexities of administering medicine from a paramedic perspective. You’ll develop your knowledge, understanding and application of pharmacology, building on your existing practice experience gained in anatomy, physiology and paramedic clinical practice. Your study will incorporate the responsible regulation of medicines to those who have been prescribed and will consider the associated exemptions and restrictions. By the end of this module you will have gained a thorough working knowledge of the legal parameters surrounding the administration of medicine as a paramedic in the field. 

This module is designed to enhance your ability to reflect on your practice as an educational practitioner in the paramedic field. You’ll gain a thorough understanding of the education and learning approach systems that will contribute to your paramedic professional development in healthcare settings. You’ll acquire knowledge and understanding of learning preferences in the practice education environment. You’ll use this knowledge to plan and facilitate learning events to meet the needs of learners effectively, applying diverse and innovative educational approaches. 

This module aims to prepare you for the paramedic field by enhancing your decision-making capabilities, clinical knowledge and skills base in terms of enhanced patient assessment and management. You’ll be encouraged to consolidate your understanding of prior professional practice acquired, and you’ll be introduced to relevant theoretical assessment and management concepts, with a special focus on urgent and unscheduled healthcare. On completion of this module, you shall be highly equipped with the required Paramedic Practice skills to transition to professional registration.

This dissertation module will enhance your professional knowledge and understanding of legal obligations when delivering and managing care. You’ll be supported in developing a research project involving secondary data in order to critically explore a relevant area of practice. You’ll be given the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to argue coherently, to gather evidence, to evaluate critically, and to synthesis various sources of secondary data within an appropriate methodological framework. Your dissertation will build upon your past knowledge and experience, and will provide a suitable platform, enabling you to define a practice-based issue for in-depth analysis. 

This module is designed to support you in developing a research project relevant to an area of your practice. You’ll analyse secondary data to critically explore your project and you’ll have the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to argue coherently, to gather evidence and present your findings within an appropriate methodological framework. You’ll draw on your past knowledge and experience to define your project theme for in-depth analysis. You’ll utilise the latest research literature to support your dissertation write-up with an aim to reach completion by the middle of the final semester.
 

Clinical practice experience is an important part of your programme of study, developing the behaviours and skills required to practise as a modern paramedic. There are 750 hours of practice education placements each year, where you’ll always practise as a supernumerary Student Paramedic. 

The planning and organisation of these clinical placements allows your learning to integrate theory and clinical practice. A structure of development allows your experience to build upon ‘Fundamentals’ which are introduced in Year One, ‘Developing’ in Year Two, and ‘Enhanced’ in Year Three.   

You’ll experience placement including operational experience with SCAS to learn safe and effective practice in this setting. You will also gain experience in other health, social and care settings.

More information is available about placement locations, allocation, quality assurance and reasonable adjustments on the Practice Education site.