Overview – Recap and expansion from Level 4.

Professional & Procedural – Providing a professional context for the use of skills.
Human factors associated with health and decision making.
Obstetrics and Gynaecology – Maternity and obstetric emergencies. Including life support considerations.
Advanced Life Support - Adult and Paediatric - including a teamwork approach to ALS.
Advanced Airway Management.
Intra-Osseous Access.
ROLE, DNAR and Advanced Decisions.
Pharmacology and Medicines Management – including life support drugs.
ECG interpretation.
Pain management.
Cardiovascular pathophysiology.
Cardiovascular clinical assessment and management.
Interpretation of ECGs.
The inflammatory response and anaphylaxis.
Maternity and obstetric conditions.
Maternity clinical assessment and management.
Paediatric pathophysiology.
End of Life Care.
Standards of conduct, performance, and ethics.
Note:

This module runs in conjunction with Introduction to Pathophysiology, Pharmacology and Clinical Skills 1.

1. Multiple Choice Question and Short answer examination, based on Pathophysiology and Pharmacology. (Learning Outcomes 1 and 2).

2. Adult Advanced Life Support OSCE. (Learning Outcomes 2 and 3).

Students will demonstrate safe and effective Advanced Life Support in accordance with the UK Resus council ALS algorithm. Student will also demonstrate the safe and effective use of therapeutic intervention/s.

Both assessments must be passed to achieve an overall pass for the module.

Formative Assessment on obstetric emergencies.

Throughout the module, key theory content will be delivered through a combination of lead lectures, seminars and practical skills sessions, supplemented by online materials. Most content will be delivered by the paramedic teaching team. however, specialist guest lecturers may be brought in to cover some key subjects and provide alternative perspectives on specific areas of clinical practice.

Students may be asked to participate in simulated learning either as a clinician or taking the role of a patient/relative, and this is an extremely valuable learning experience. Consent will be sought for this at the commencement of the course, and students will reserve the right to withdraw consent at any point. In the event of this happening an alternative learning experience will be provided by the teaching team. Service user and carer involvement will also be utilised in simulated learning where appropriate and available.

1. Analyse the principal concepts of applied pharmacology and therapeutics as they apply to paramedic practice, including the application and effects of medicines.
Knowledge and Understanding, Analysis Application.

2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of medicines management and legislation, and the ability to apply them to paramedic practice.
Knowledge and Understanding, Application.

3. Demonstrate a critical understanding and application of dynamic assessment skills, decision making and management, as they apply to paramedic practice.
Knowledge and Understanding, Application, Analysis, Problem Solving, Enquiry.

Clinical skills sessions.
Simulation.
VLE (Virtual Learning Environments).
Classroom.
Library support.
Academic Mentor support.
Group tutorials.
Lectures.
Seminars.

Blaber, A. and Harris, G. (2016), Assessment skills for paramedics, 2nd edn, Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Galbraith, A. (2017) Fundamentals of pharmacology: an applied approach for nursing and health, London: Routledge.

Kibble , J. D. and Halsey, C. R. (2019) The Big Picture: Medical Physiology, UK: McGraw-Hill.

PEATE, I. Edt. (2018) Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology – An Essential Guide for Nursing and Healthcare Students, 3rd Edition, Chichester: John Wiley and sons.

Enrolled on the BSc (Hons) in Paramedic Science.

Paramedics are generalist practitioners who respond to a broad range of patients in diverse and changing environments. This module is intended to cover the essential pathophysiology and pharmacology of common emergency presentations, whilst developing the fundamental skills associated with safe and effective care.