Program Overview

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

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.

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.

Entry Requirements

• 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 relevant 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.

Fees and Funding

CPD Pricing Structure

Tuition Fees Policy

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.

Key Details

Tuition fees

CPD Pricing Structure

Minimum entry requirements

120 Level 4 and 120 Level 5 credits or Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) portfolio.

• Recruiting to UK / RoI / Settled in UK
• Course Location Online
• Institute Institute of Health
• Delivery Style Online
• Course Duration Part-time 2 Years
• Course Start Point January, April, September
• Award BSc (Hons)