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HCPAR5011 - Paramedic Clinical Diagnostics I
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<p>This unit equips students with the knowledge and skills required to assess and manage pre-hospital medical emergencies across a range of common and time-critical presentations. Learners will apply structured clinical reasoning to cardiac, respiratory, neurological, and abdominal emergencies, ensuring care is delivered in line with current Clinical Practice Guidelines. Students will also develop capability to recognise, assess, and manage mental health presentations in the pre-hospital environment. This includes applying the Mental Health Act (2023) to guide lawful and ethical decision-making, using a Mental Health Assessment tool to support clinical judgements, and providing appropriate interventions consistent with both the Mental Health Act (2023) and Clinical Practice Guidelines. The unit emphasises safe and effective communication and coordination with relevant emergency services when caring for mentally unwell patients, ensuring that legal and ethical responsibilities are met while maintaining professional, patient-centred care.</p>
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<p>Unit content will include:</p><ul><li>Scene safety, primary survey, recognition of life threats, and applying structured clinical reasoning in the pre-hospital environment</li><li>Prioritising assessment and management for cardiac, respiratory, neurological, and abdominal presentations</li><li>Obtaining a relevant history in emergency contexts, identifying red flags, and using observations to guide clinical judgement</li><li>Assessment and pre-hospital management of cardiac emergencies, including chest pain/ACS, STEMI and Non-STEMI, arrhythmias, shock states, and cardiac arrest presentations</li><li>Applying Clinical Practice Guidelines to support appropriate interventions with a particular focus on pre-hospital cardiac assessment, monitoring, rhythm recognition, and escalation/transport decisions</li><li>Assessment and pre-hospital management of respiratory emergencies, including respiratory distress, asthma/COPD exacerbations, anaphylaxis, and respiratory failure features (as relevant to guidelines and scope)</li><li>Applying Clinical Practice Guidelines to oxygenation and ventilation decisions, monitoring response to treatment, recognising deterioration, and initiating timely escalation</li><li>Recognition and management of neurological emergencies, including altered conscious state, seizures, suspected stroke features, and neurological red flags</li><li>Applying time-critical principles to assessment and stabilisation, including airway protection considerations, seizure management principles, and appropriate transport/notification decisions</li><li>Assessment and management of abdominal and other non-specific medical emergencies, including shock screening, pain/red-flag features, and prioritising potential life-threatening causes</li><li>Applying Clinical Practice Guidelines to supportive care, monitoring, and escalation/transport decisions</li><li>Documenting and communicating key clinical information to receiving emergency services</li><li>Applying the Mental Health Act (2023) to pre-hospital mental health presentations, including lawful and ethical decision-making and safe management in the field</li><li>Management of mental health presentations with attention to risk, capacity and decision-making considerations (as guided by the Mental Health Act, 2023), de-escalation principles, and escalation/referral pathways</li><li>Legal and ethical obligations under the Mental Health Act (2023), including documentation, consent-related considerations, and professional responsibilities</li><li>Professional communication and coordination with relevant emergency services when caring for mentally unwell patients, including appropriate information transfer for continuing care and safety</li><li>Assessment and pre-hospital management of allergic reactions and anaphylaxis, including recognition of triggers, early warning signs, severity assessment, and rapid deterioration risks</li><li>Applying Clinical Practice Guidelines to guide management of anaphylaxis, including monitoring response to initial treatment, escalation criteria, and transport/handovers that clearly communicate suspected allergy/anaphylaxis and interventions provided</li></ul>
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<p>Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment.</p>
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<p>This unit equips students with the knowledge and skills required to assess and manage pre-hospital medical emergencies across a range of common and time-critical presentations. Learners will apply structured clinical reasoning to cardiac, respiratory, neurological, and abdominal emergencies, ensuring care is delivered in line with current Clinical Practice Guidelines. Students will also develop capability to recognise, assess, and manage mental health presentations in the pre-hospital environment. This includes applying the Mental Health Act (2023) to guide lawful and ethical decision-making, using a Mental Health Assessment tool to support clinical judgements, and providing appropriate interventions consistent with both the Mental Health Act (2023) and Clinical Practice Guidelines. The unit emphasises safe and effective communication and coordination with relevant emergency services when caring for mentally unwell patients, ensuring that legal and ethical responsibilities are met while maintaining professional, patient-centred care.</p>
Unit content
<p>Unit content will include:</p><ul><li>Scene safety, primary survey, recognition of life threats, and applying structured clinical reasoning in the pre-hospital environment</li><li>Prioritising assessment and management for cardiac, respiratory, neurological, and abdominal presentations</li><li>Obtaining a relevant history in emergency contexts, identifying red flags, and using observations to guide clinical judgement</li><li>Assessment and pre-hospital management of cardiac emergencies, including chest pain/ACS, STEMI and Non-STEMI, arrhythmias, shock states, and cardiac arrest presentations</li><li>Applying Clinical Practice Guidelines to support appropriate interventions with a particular focus on pre-hospital cardiac assessment, monitoring, rhythm recognition, and escalation/transport decisions</li><li>Assessment and pre-hospital management of respiratory emergencies, including respiratory distress, asthma/COPD exacerbations, anaphylaxis, and respiratory failure features (as relevant to guidelines and scope)</li><li>Applying Clinical Practice Guidelines to oxygenation and ventilation decisions, monitoring response to treatment, recognising deterioration, and initiating timely escalation</li><li>Recognition and management of neurological emergencies, including altered conscious state, seizures, suspected stroke features, and neurological red flags</li><li>Applying time-critical principles to assessment and stabilisation, including airway protection considerations, seizure management principles, and appropriate transport/notification decisions</li><li>Assessment and management of abdominal and other non-specific medical emergencies, including shock screening, pain/red-flag features, and prioritising potential life-threatening causes</li><li>Applying Clinical Practice Guidelines to supportive care, monitoring, and escalation/transport decisions</li><li>Documenting and communicating key clinical information to receiving emergency services</li><li>Applying the Mental Health Act (2023) to pre-hospital mental health presentations, including lawful and ethical decision-making and safe management in the field</li><li>Management of mental health presentations with attention to risk, capacity and decision-making considerations (as guided by the Mental Health Act, 2023), de-escalation principles, and escalation/referral pathways</li><li>Legal and ethical obligations under the Mental Health Act (2023), including documentation, consent-related considerations, and professional responsibilities</li><li>Professional communication and coordination with relevant emergency services when caring for mentally unwell patients, including appropriate information transfer for continuing care and safety</li><li>Assessment and pre-hospital management of allergic reactions and anaphylaxis, including recognition of triggers, early warning signs, severity assessment, and rapid deterioration risks</li><li>Applying Clinical Practice Guidelines to guide management of anaphylaxis, including monitoring response to initial treatment, escalation criteria, and transport/handovers that clearly communicate suspected allergy/anaphylaxis and interventions provided</li></ul>
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Health and Wellbeing
Discipline:
Paramedicine
Study level:
Postgraduate - Coursework
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
069905 - Paramedical Studies
Offering:
<p><strong>Semester 1</strong><p>Ballarat - Mt Helen (On Campus)</p></p>
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
No
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/hcpar5011">View unit fees</a>
Requisites
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<p>must be enrolled in <a href="/ords/r/curriculum/catalogue/course?p6_code=HCPAR5001" target="_blank">HCPAR5001</a></p>
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<p>On successful completion of this unit, students are expected to gain the following [K]nowledge, [S]kills and [A]pplication of knowledge & skills</p>
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<p>Assess and manage pre-hospital medical emergencies with a focus on cardiac, respiratory, neurological, and abdominal presentations.</p>
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<p>Apply the Mental Health Act (2023) to guide assessment and management of mental health presentations within the pre-hospital setting.</p>
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<p>Apply the Clinical Practise Guidelines and provide appropriate management with a particular focus of the pre hospital cardiac and respiratory presentation.</p>
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<p>Use the Mental Health Assessment tool to support clinical judgements and implement care in accordance with the Mental Health Act (2023)and Clinical Practice Guidelines.</p>
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<p>Manage cardiac, respiratory, mental health, and other medical presentations in line with Clinical Practice Guidelines.</p>
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<p>Apply legal and ethical obligations under the Mental Health Act (2023) and communicate/coordinate professionally with relevant emergency services when caring for mentally unwell patients.</p>
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<p>Multiple Graded Scenarios as a tabletop scenario discussion with teamwork based, decison making process, application of knowledge in different scenarios</p>
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<p>Case studies or condition-based facilitated discusions with open and direct questions </p>
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Supplementary assessment available:
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Supplementary assessment information:
<p>Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment.</p>
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<p>Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FedTASKs (<strong>T</strong>ransferable <strong>A</strong>ttributes <strong>S</strong>kills and <strong>K</strong>nowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key, transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and co-operative learning opportunities.</p>
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Description of FedTASK outcome
FedTASK 1: Interpersonal
Students will demonstrate high-level skills to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups Students will be required to display (in person and/or online) high-level skills in-person and/or online in: Effective verbal and non-verbal communication via a range of synchronous and asynchronous methods Active listening for meaning and influencing High-level empathy for others Negotiating and demonstrating extended conflict resolution skills Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams
FedTASK 2: Leadership
Students will demonstrate the ability to apply leadership skills and behaviours Students will be required to display skills in: Creating, contributing to, and enabling collegial environments Showing self-awareness and the ability to self-reflect for personal growth Inspiring and enabling others Making informed and evidence-based decisions through consultation with others Displaying initiative and ability to solve problems
FedTASK 3: Critical Thinking and Creativity
Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complex and ambiguous environments, using their imagination to create new ideas Students will be required to display skills in: Reflecting critically on complex problems Synthesising, evaluating ideas, concepts and information Proposing alternative perspectives to refine ideas Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts through deep inquiry Proposing creative solutions in problem solving
FedTASK 4: Digital Literacy
Students will demonstrate the ability to work proficiently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks Students will be required to display high-level skills in: Finding, accessing, collating, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and appropriately and securely sharing complex digital information at a high-level Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media Using digital tools appropriately to conduct research Contributing proficiently to digital teams and working groups Participating in and utilising digital learning opportunities
FedTASK 5: Sustainable and Ethical Mindset
Students will demonstrate the ability to think ethically and sustainably. Students will be required to display skills in: The responsible conduct of research Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in multiple global economic environmental and societal contexts Demonstrating commitment to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen Generating research solutions which are sustainable,ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable Extending lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others Demonstrate extended actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Health and Wellbeing
Discipline:
Paramedicine
Study level:
Postgraduate - Coursework
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
069905 - Paramedical Studies
Offering:
<p><strong>Semester 1</strong><p>Ballarat - Mt Helen (On Campus)</p></p>
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
No
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/hcpar5011">View unit fees</a>
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