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    Liverpool John Moores University

    Liverpool John Moores University

    United KingdomUnited Kingdom , Liverpool

    Key Facts

    Program Level

    Bachelor

    Study Type

    Full Time

    Delivery

    On Campus

    Course Code

    A900

    Campuses

    City

    Program Language

    English

    Start & Deadlines

    Next Intake DeadlinesSeptember-2023
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    Duration 3 year(s)
    Tuition Fee
    GBP 17,400  / year
    Next Intake September-2023

    Paramedic Science

    About

    Why study Paramedic Science at Liverpool John Moores University?

    • A wide range of quality placement opportunities
    • A programme delivered by HCPC registered paramedics
    • Supported in a multi professional learning environment
    • Excellent supervision and support in practice settings
    • Evidenced based education and learning
    • £5,000 per year NHS training grant, plus another £2,000 for students with dependent children

    About your course

    The BSc Paramedic Science at Liverpool John Moores University gives you the opportunity to acquire the knowledge, skills and confidence required to become a registered paramedic. You will achieve the high standard expected of today's health professionals, enabling you to work effectively at the frontline of patient care.

    Working alongside other health professionals and emergency services, you will develop strong leadership skills and the ability to work independently, as well as being a member of a team. A good level of physical fitness is paramount as moving and handling of patients and equipment is part of the role.

    Your placements will be in the most part with North West Ambulance NHS Trust (NWAS). They are the largest ambulance service outside London, providing emergency care for 7 million people across the region and responding to 952,000 calls each year.

    As you progress under supervision, you will be challenged to adapt quickly as situations change. The course will help you develop the clinical skills, underpinning knowledge and interpersonal skills you need to care for people in distressing circumstances. Ultimately, you will have the confidence to work effectively and independently.

    We utilise many practice areas within the Merseyside and Cheshire area, which include NWAS, accident and emergency departments, health centres, hospital operating theatres, maternity units, paediatric facilities, mental health facilities and critical care facilities. Each of these placements will add to your experience and development as a paramedic student.

    We have excellent facilities within the university so that we can offer you simulated experiences to support your practice. You will benefit from multi-professional days when you will be working alongside and learning with midwifery and nursing students.

    What you will study on this degree

    This degree will fully prepare you for practice. You will be able to apply for registration with the HCPC and feel confident in yourself as a practitioner.

    You will complete modules to a total of 120 credits at each level of your degree. All modules are 'Core'; this means all students on the degree will study them.

    Levels 4 and 5 are both split 50:50 between theory and practice. At Level 6 there's more of an emphasis on practice with a 40:60 split, helping to prepare you for employment as a paramedic. Increased practice-based placements will allow for a greater depth of service user medical assessment in primary care settings. 

    Reflective Practice

    Reflecting on your own and and fellow student paramedics' simulated clinical practice is a great way to help you develop skills, build confidence and prepare for real-world placements. To do this in the best way possible, we have invested in state-of-the-art recording equipment in each of our clinical practice suites and other teaching spaces. During specific modules, you will be asked to take part in the filming of both yourself and other students. The footage recorded is strictly confidential and must not be shared inappropriately or released into the public domain. Being professional and having respect for others must always be maintained. This strict confidentiality ensures you can be at ease and fully engage with your teaching and learning experiences.

    Each patient bay is equipped with two cameras and a microphone so you can record yourself completing a procedure - say practicing cannulation skills or wound dressing - and then watch it back to see how you did, spotting good practice or any areas for improvement. It's truly a transformative way to learn and hone your skills!

    Further guidance on modules

    Modules are designated core or option in accordance with professional body requirements, as applicable, and LJMU's Academic Framework Regulations.

    Whilst you are required to study core modules, optional modules are also included to provide you with an element of choice within the programme. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to meeting minimum student numbers.

    Where changes to modules are necessary these will be communicated as appropriate.

    Level 4

    Core modules

    Structure and Function of the Human Body
    20 credits

    The aim of the module is to understand the structure and function of the human body and how it plays an important role in decision making for paramedics. 

    Foundations of Communication and Professionalism
    10 credits

    The aim of this module is to encourage you to consider your personal and professional development. This module will offer a variety of study skills relating directly and specifically to paramedic practice.

    Perspectives of Health
    10 credits

    The aim of this module is to develop an understanding of the impact of health and illness on individual and population health. You will develop an awareness of how social, ethnic, gender and cultural differences influence health and illness.

    Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness
    20 credits

    This module explores human anatomy and physiology by considering growth and development within the context of the human life cycle. It will enhance your understanding of human biological systems. 

    Illness, Diagnosis and Treatment
    20 credits

    This module provides you with a theoretical base to understand the aetiology of a variety of common conditions and illnesses across all age ranges.

    Paramedic Practice
    40 credits

    During this module, you will enhance key attributes including your clinical knowledge, clinical skills and professional decision-making, to enable you to demonstrate professional conduct and to achieve clinical competence in the care, monitoring, support and treatment of service users in the out-of-hospital setting.

    Outline Syllabus
    • Moving and Handling
    • Confidentiality
    • Infection Prevention Control
    • NHS Core Skills Framework for the North West health sector
    • Basic Life Support - Adult and Child
    • Documentation
    • Patient positioning
    • Principles of patient assessment
    • Scene assessment and management communication
    • Conflict resolution
    • Ambulance equipment
    • Paramedic Emergency and Non-Emergency Service
    • Legal and ethical issues and capacity to consent
    • Clinical impression / diagnosis and decision making
    • Immediate Life Support - Adult and Child
    • Core drugs, Patient Group Directions and legal aspects and access
    • Vulnerable patients

    Level 5

    Core modules

    Research Methodologies for Paramedics
    10 credits

    The aim of this module is to provide you with the ability to undertake research in relation to paramedic practice. You will analyse the value of evidence based research in the development of health care practice.

    Pathophysiology
    20 credits

    This module will explore human anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology in relation to paramedic practice.

    Promoting Professional Values
    10 credits

    This module will allow you to analyse the responsibilities that come with being registrants with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). It promotes the professional values of being a Health Care Professional.

    Applied Pharmacology for Paramedics
    20 credits

    This module will explore the impact of pharmacological interventions on the human body within the realm of paramedic practice.

    Clinical Examination, Assessment and Decision Making
    20 credits

    Within this module, you will gain theoretical knowledge required to develop and support the clinical skills that you will be learning and utilising during the practice module and whilst on clinical placement.

    Advanced Practice
    40 credits

    By the end of this module, you will be able to safely and effectively demonstrate a range of clinical skills in the out of hospital arena with respect to the environment and any urgent or emergency situation encountered. You will be able to safely and effectively identify and differentiate the critically injured patient, including those with an exacerbation of existing illness or disease. You will also be able to ensure the appropriate management of patients with a time-critical injury or illness in accordance with current evidence-based practice.

    Outline Syllabus

    • Medical terminology
    • Infusion therapy methods
    • Advanced airway management
    • Comprehensive clinical observations appropriate to the patient's condition, including 12-lead ECG acquisition
    • Interpretation for a range of acute coronary syndromes (ACSs)
    • Applying safe, appropriate and effective, basic and advanced life support across the age ranges
    • History taking
    • Common illnesses and conditions across the age ranges
    • Patient assessment across the age ranges
    • Treatment pathways

    Level 6

    Core modules

    Enhanced Clinical Skills
    20 credits

    The aim of this module is to develop and enhance patient assessment skills in order to form a differential diagnosis.

    Expanding Research in Paramedic Practice
    20 credits

    The aim of this module is to expand and further develop the research knowledge and ability to design and produce a research study proposal. The proposal should direct you towards an area of study to inform your dissertation.

    Dissertation
    40 credits

    You will undertake a structured literature review in an area related to paramedic practice. Your extended literature review will be informed by a research proposal.

    Leadership as a Practice Educator
    20 credits

    This module will enable you to explore how to facilitate lifelong learning in others by developing your mentoring, teaching and assessing skills in the urgent and emergency care setting.

    Paramedic Approach within an Integrated Urgent Care Service
    20 credits

    This module will enable you to improve your knowledge and understanding of the role of a paramedic within integrated urgent care and clinical assessment services.

    Teaching and work-related learning

    Excellent facilities and learning resources

    We adopt an active blended learning approach, meaning you will experience a combination of face-to-face and online learning during your time at LJMU. This enables you to experience a rich and diverse learning experience and engage fully with your studies. Our approach ensures that you can easily access support from your personal tutor, either by meeting them on-campus or via a video call to suit your needs.

    We deliver our modules in a variety of methods. We appreciate that students learn in differing ways and we have the experience and understanding to support each individual through the programme.

    Work-related Learning

    The wide range of placements coupled with the evidence-based learning will offer you a unique insight into the profession of the paramedic. By designing your programme in this innovative way, we are confident that you will successfully develop your skills, knowledge and professionalism as you move closer to the point of registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.

    Support and guidance

    Dedicated personal tutor, plus study skills support

    In addition, you will be allocated a Personal Tutor at LJMU, who will give you feedback on how you are progressing with your studies and help you to plan for your educational and career development. The university also offer wider support for all of our students if needed.

    Assessment

    Assessment varies depending on the modules you choose, but will usually include a combination of exams and coursework.

    Your marks and feedback will be available within 15 working days of submitting a piece of work. That's because we believe that constructive feedback is vital in helping you identify your strengths as well as the areas where you may need to develop further.

    Course tutors

    Our staff are committed to the highest standards of teaching and learning

    Kay Hughes

    Programme Leader

    Kay Hughes

    Programme Leader

    Kay works as part of an amazing group of senior lecturers who form the Paramedic Team at LJMU. In addition to being the programme leader for BSc (Hons) Paramedic Science, Kay also teaches on BSc (Hons) Paramedicine and MSc Paramedicine. She spent the first ten years of her paramedic career operational in the Chester area before becoming a Paramedic Training Officer for North West Ambulance Service in Liverpool. Kay moved to LJMU in 2007 to help develop the paramedic programmes. Here, she completed an MSc Public Health and is now working on a PhD. Kay's research area is the menopause transition, and how paramedics define it, cope with it and manage it when at the “front-lineâ€ of healthcare.

    I enjoy seeing the passion, enthusiasm and caring qualities in our students. I particularly enjoy seeing the development of each paramedic student throughout their education and clinical experience in university and in practice, and I appreciate that every student has a unique journey through the programme. As every paramedic student walks across the stage at graduation each footstep reminds me of their student story.

    Facilities

    What you can expect from your School

    Part of the City Campus, the School of Nursing and Allied Health works with a wide range of health and social care organisations to design and deliver a dynamic suite of courses. In addition to specialist clinical practice suite facilities, you will find high quality seminar rooms, IT suites and lecture theatres, plus a cafeÌ and social spaces. The School's flagship Tithebarn Building adjoins the Avril Robarts Library, which is open 24/7 during semesters.

    Disciplines

    Faculty of Health

    Requirements

    Entry Requirements

    Applicants require a High School Certificate (Tawjihi) plus 1 year of further study to include: Community College Certificate / Diploma / General Vocational Secondary Education Certificate For entry onto the first year. A-level applicants require 104 points are required and students studying the International Baccalaureate Diploma will need to achieve 27 points or more for first year entry.

    Career

    90% of our Paramedic Science graduates are in employment or further study 15 months after finishing the course (discoveruni.gov.uk)

    Once completing the programme, you will be eligible to apply for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council. This registration will allow you to practice anywhere in the UK as a paramedic.

    Once you are a qualified paramedic and you start to build your experience, you can begin to consider progression within your chosen healthcare setting, weather that is with an ambulance service, primary care setting or any other form of NHS Trust or private organisation. You can also develop wider skills and educational pathways, which would support your future development.  

    The College of Paramedics offers advice and guidance on career and professional development and as a team we will be guiding and advising you.

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    Student Futures - Careers, Employability and Enterprise Service

    We are committed to ensuring all our students experience a transformation in their employability skills and mindset and their career trajectory. A wide range of opportunities and support is available to you, within and beyond your course.

    Every undergraduate curriculum includes Future Focus during Level 4, an e-learning resource and workshop designed to help you to develop your talents, passion and purpose. It will enable you to become more proactive, adaptable and resilient in your awareness and approach to career possibilities.

    Every student has access to Careers Zone 24/7, LJMU's state-of-the-art suite of online tools, resources and jobs board. There are opportunities for flexible, paid and part-time work through Unitemps, LJMU's in-house recruitment service, ensuring students can build experience whilst they study.

    One-to-one careers and employability advice is available via our campus-based Careers Zones to accelerate your job search and applications, CV and interview technique. Themed careers and employability workshops, a programme of employer events and recruitment fairs run throughout the year and students have the opportunity to hear from a range of alumni who openly share their own onward experience.

    Student Futures work with businesses to create opportunities for fully funded internships which help students increase their network within the Liverpool City Region and beyond. Our Start-Up Hub can help you to grow your enterprise skills and to research, plan and start your own business or become a freelancer.

    A suite of learning experiences, services and opportunities is available to final year students to help ensure you leave with a great onward plan. You can access LJMU's Careers, Employability and Enterprise Services after you graduate and return for one-to-one support for life.

    Fee Information

    Tuition Fee

    GBP 17,400  / year

    How to Apply

    All applications for September 2023 entry must be submitted by Friday 30 June 2023. Once an offer has been made, applicants will have a further 28 days to pay a deposit for the course. Failure to do so, may result in your offer being cancelled.

    When you apply to LJMU via UCAS, your ability to achieve the entry criteria is just one area that we take into account. Another important part of the application form is your personal statement, which is an opportunity for you to tell us about yourself. You should include your skills, relevant interests and hobbies, along with why you want to study the course. 

    Any work experience or voluntary work should be mentioned here, but don’t just state where and when, tell us about what you have learned and why you enjoyed it. We are looking for motivation, commitment and enthusiasm. This is your opportunity to convince us why you would like to study on the course you have chosen at LJMU.

    If you need further help in filling in your UCAS form there are full instructions at ucas.com or you can contact UCAS direct: +44 330 3330 230 open Monday to Friday, 8.30am-6pm (GMT)

    You can submit your application to UCAS from 6 September for entry in September the following year. We advise early applications as some courses become full. The final application deadline for International students is 1 April 2023.

    Additional requirements

    In addition to satisfying the general academic criteria, you will also need to demonstrate your English language proficiency. The English language level required is also listed alongside each course in this. You are advised to check our online course information for detailed and up-to-date entry requirements for specific degrees.

    If you miss the deadline for applications, don’t worry, as applications for many courses can be made through UCAS Clearing.

    Once you have applied UCAS sends the applications to us and we pass them to the Admissions Officer responsible for selecting students for each course. Every application is considered very carefully and you will be notified by UCAS whether or not your application has been successful. You can also track your application and make your decisions online via UCAS Track.

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