Bachelor of Paramedic Practice with Honours

Core requirement

Students must be able to manage their own responses and behaviour to work effectively in a range of learning environments with diverse people and tasks. This includes the capacity to be receptive and respond appropriately to constructive feedback. Students should also be able to work with others in a team or group environment and make and maintain effective relationships with a wide range of individuals in order to complete tasks or for professional practice.

See also Student behaviours policy for more information.

Course-specific requirement

Paramedicine is governed by specific regulatory and ethical standards and requirements in order to ensure healthcare is delivered in an accountable, professional, and safe manner. For example, students must display behavioural stability and manage their personal responses while working with emotionally and physically distressed individuals from diverse groups and backgrounds. Paramedic students must be able to work both individually and in teams in varied and unpredictable environments, often under time pressure, and function effectively in a frequently demanding role.
Students must demonstrate strong interpersonal communication skills in order to ensure safe delivery of health services. This includes written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills. Students must have the ability to sufficiently engage with a range of information, as effective interpretation, recording, and transmission of information ensures the safe and accurate provision of health care. They must be able to recognise and respond appropriately to verbal and non-verbal cues displayed by colleagues and patients to ensure safe, appropriate and responsive care.
https://www.paramedicineboard.gov.au/Professional-standards/Professional-capabilities-for-registered-paramedics.aspx

Core requirement

Students must be able to locate, acquire, retain and apply knowledge as part of their learning and for assessment. They must have the ability to sustain their attention over a designated period, maintain their focus in a variety of learning environments and remember information long enough to complete tasks in a reasonable and safe timeframe.

Course-specific requirement

Paramedicine students must be able to use retained information and recall information without reference, often in time pressured circumstances. They must be able to integrate learned knowledge into practice, including the ability to apply formulas in order to make measured calculations, such as drug doses, regarding patient care. Students must also be able to maintain attention in distracting, psychologically challenging, and changeable environments in order to deliver safe and timely patient care.
Paramedicine students must be able to maintain focus and concentrate on multiple tasks for extended time periods. They must have the capacity to complete shifts that extend beyond 12 hours and include rotating shifts while on clinical placement, and concurrently maintain consistent focus and concentration during that time.
https://www.paramedicineboard.gov.au/Professional-standards/Professional-capabilities-for-registered-paramedics.aspx

Core requirement

Students should possess the ability to interact with visual, auditory or tactile inputs sufficiently to manage their learning environment and to meet professional performance needs.

Course-specific requirement

Paramedicine students must have adequate visual acuity to observe patient symptoms and perform a wide range of clinical skills to ensure accurate, consistent and safe self and patient care. This care is often delivered in dynamic and unpredictable environments.
Paramedicine students must have adequate hearing or auditory ability to monitor, assess and manage patients, and effectively identify hazards in a range of work environments.For example, students must be able to accurately perform chest auscultations. They must also be able to hear and respond appropriately to feedback and instructions from multiple sources at once, including patients, colleagues and emergency service staff.
Students must possess adequate touch/tactile ability in order to perform competent and safe patient care. For example, paramedicine students must be able to palpate anatomical structures and use tactile ability to assess physiological parameters including pulses.
Paramedicine students must have an adequate sense of smell to undertake clinical assessment of patients where odour may be indicative of abnormality, such as gastrointestinal bleeding or ketoacidosis. They must also be able to detect the presence of hazardous substances including fuel or gas.
https://www.paramedicineboard.gov.au/Professional-standards/Professional-capabilities-for-registered-paramedics.aspx

Core requirement

Gross motor skills: Students should possess the strength, range of motion, coordination and mobility sufficient to manage their learning environment and ultimately, professional performance needs.

Fine motor skills: Students should possess the manual dexterity and fine motor skills sufficient to manage their learning environment and ultimately, professional performance needs.

Course-specific requirement

Paramedicine students must possess both gross and fine motor skills to undertake common tasks such as lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, standing, twisting and bending.These tasks may be performed in uncontrolled environments which includes low-light situations and on uneven ground. Paramedicine students must be able to demonstrate and perform these tasks consistently and safely to reduce the risk of harm to self and others.
Paramedic practice also requires fine motor function to perform clinical assessments and to manipulate and operate medical equipment. Fine motor function is also required when performing treatment techniques including intravenous cannulation, wound dressings, and drug preparation and delivery.
https://www.paramedicineboard.gov.au/Professional-standards/Professional-capabilities-for-registered-paramedics.aspx