Paramedic Science BSc(Hons)

This module provides you with the opportunity to gain an understanding of relevant legal and ethical principles within paramedic practice. You’ll be provided with an overview of applied law and ethics to paramedic practice and the application to healthcare delivery. You’ll learn about the professional attributes and conduct expected of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) with a practical focus on the application to practice. You’ll also be introduced to relevant policies and procedures underpinning practice, including code of conduct, information governance, social media and health and safety.

You’ll have the opportunity to develop the non-technical skills paramedics require including patient centred care, experience, communication and teamwork. You’ll demonstrate professional and passionate behaviour to emergency and urgent care situations, exhibiting a positive attitude in helping to improve patient care/experience. You’ll also explore the importance of being committed to the quality and care of service users and significant others, as well as learn from successes and mistakes in line with the NHS Constitution.

You’ll have the opportunity to gain introductory knowledge and understanding in order to be responsive and provide care to people of all ages. You’ll learn how to provide care to individuals in a compassionate and supporting manner, as well as to patients and significant others with acute and critical presentations. The module will also assist you in gaining an understanding of the different approaches and considerations relevant within paramedic practice whilst acting in the interest of service users at all times.

This module introduces you to the necessary skills required for contemporary paramedic practice. It will assist you in gaining and refining your skills to care for, monitor, manage and support service users and their families during clinical practice. This practical module provides the opportunity to learn and develop skills through simulated and paramedic practice placements with the ambulance service and other healthcare environments.

This module provides the opportunity to build your knowledge of acute and critical illness across the age spectrum. It will assist you to recognise emergency presentations and gain an understanding of how to provide effective emergency pharmacological therapy and intervention within emergency care. You’ll also learn how to formulate management plans and develop robust clinical decision making. Emphasis throughout the module will be placed on the holistic management of the individual to provide optimum care.

You’ll have the opportunity to develop your clinical competence and the necessary qualities required in paramedic practice. This will include the skills you require to care for, monitor, manage and support service users and their families during clinical practice. This practical module builds on patient assessment and introduces clinical decision making skills allowing you to refine your practice. By achieving this, you’ll emulate the professional attributes and conduct as expected of the HCPC. Within the practice element you'll undertake a defined range of competencies under direct or indirect supervision.

You’ll have the opportunity to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills required to undertake a systematic patient assessment. You’ll focus on current evidence informing approaches to patient encounters in unscheduled and emergency environments. You’ll learn clinical reasoning and problem-solving skills to enable optimum patient care. The module will cover systematic history taking and clinical assessment to underpin clinical decision making and provide holistic care within an emergency setting.

This module explores the application of research to paramedic practice. You’ll have the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills of research methods, build critical appraisal skills and develop an understanding of evidence-based practice within health. You’ll demonstrate your understanding of the different types of research undertaken and where each is applicable. The module builds upon existing healthcare ethics, by exploring the ethical considerations within research. It will prepare you to undertake a study relevant to paramedic practice in Year 3.

This module provides the opportunity for you to advance your existing knowledge of urgent and unscheduled care. You’ll explore broader aspects of the contemporary paramedic role including values base practice, long term conditions and safety netting. You’ll critically analyse strategies that enable enhanced performance within the care team and reflect on the value to patients of understanding contemporary practice. Integral to this process is the examination of your professional role and responsibilities in managing patient care.

The module aims to provide theoretical, clinically focused education around minor injuries and illness. You’ll have the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills in relation to the assessment, diagnosis and management of common presentations within paramedic practice. You’ll also be supported to demonstrate border principles of holistic care including health promotion, risk management and alternative care pathways. Lectures will focus on the evidence base whilst practical sessions will focus on the application within the paramedic sphere.

This module refines and consolidates contemporary paramedic practice. You’ll have the opportunity to advance to a sophisticated level of skill, preparing for transition into practice as an autonomous practitioner. You’ll comprehensively assess patients across the life spectrum by interpreting complex clinical data and manage their condition appropriately through intervention, pharmacology and non-technical skills. The module consolidates clinical decision making skills enabling you to lead within a simulated and practice environment.

You’ll have the opportunity to develop knowledge, appropriate attitudes and attributes for autonomous paramedic practice. You’ll explore the components of practice-based education that will allow you to successfully mentor, lead and develop others in practice. The module provides guidance and direction on matters that arise within practice supervision and explores your responsibilities and accountability as an autonomous professional. This will prepare you for the responsibilities of continued professional development and transition to practice as a newly qualified paramedic (NQP).