BSc (Hons) Paramedic: Practice Development (top-up) draft

Program Overview

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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.

Why Choose University of Cumbria?

We have extensive experience as CPD distance learning providers and have a well-established online study skills package for you to use

Study on a modular basis – learning at your own, comfortable pace

Range of modules to choose from to suit your interests and employment needs

Flexible funding options available - you can pay module by module or via student loan

Taught by experienced practitioners and academics, who have extensive experience of working in the NHS, as paramedics and a range of other occupations

Close support and guidance throughout your studies from a personal tutor

Tutors carry out national and international research, are members of national advisory bodies and publish papers in their areas of expertise - which will enhance your learning

Interactive online classrooms give you the opportunity to debate and discuss real life scenarios and experiences with fellow students, so you'll never feel like you're studying in isolation

Bring your previous university credit with you – whether from us or another institution. We have generous allowances for the accreditation of prior learning (APL)

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Course Details

Program Outline

Course outline

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Course summary

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.

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Modules

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Core

Evidence Based Practice - 20 credits

Students choose one

Negotiated Learning - 20 credits

Dissertation - 40 credits

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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

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Programme Specification

Programme specification (PDF)

For a detailed summary of all course content please read our programme specification for this course.

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Assessment, Feedback, and Teaching and Learning methods

Full details are available in the

programme specification

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Timetables

The teaching timetable should be available from the end of August. Access to the timetable is through the Student Hub – you will be able to access the Student Hub after you have completed online registration. The teaching day is 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday; please keep your other commitments open until confirmation of your teaching timetable, and bear in mind that many courses will offer placements or fieldwork which sometimes extends into the evenings and weekends.