Practice Development - Developing Paramedic Practice

Why study with us?

Are you a paramedic looking for continuing professional development at Undergraduate level?

This course has been developed in collaboration with the North West Ambulance Service to meet the educational needs of paramedics. We understand the need for a flexible approach to learning and the demands of shift work. You may be in work and want to broaden your knowledge and skills and improve your career prospects. We can provide you with a flexible solution to your study needs. You would study this course part-time, through distance learning and work-based learning

Here at the University of Cumbria we have been providing continuing professional development for paramedics since 2000. The course is delivered by subject specialism team members with extensive experience in distance learning.

What can this course lead to?

Having completed the BSc(Hons) Developing Paramedic Practice, you could consider moving on to a Masters degree. The MSc Practice Development: Enhancing Paramedic Practice is an ideal progression.

We also have a good range of stand alone modules and awards, which could be supportive of your continuing professional development, on subjects such as:

• Leadership and organisational change
• Respiratory assessment and management
• Service improvement
• Teamwork Personal effectiveness
• Pharmacology and prescribing practice
• First contact and emergency care.

This qualification will enable you to pursue a career at more senior level. Graduates of this course have gone on to become Senior, Advanced and Remote Paramedics.

Students who exit the programme having completed 60 credits of study may be eligible for the award of a University Advanced Diploma Practice Development.

Resources and facilities

We are amongst the UK’s leading health and social care faculties and are proud of the high level of support we are able to offer to our students. We provide a wide range of high-quality courses supported by expert academic and clinical practice staff.

If you join us you will enjoy great facilities and learn alongside caring, committed and experienced professionals. Our employment record is excellent. Recently, our NHS related provision underwent a major review by the Quality Assurance Agency and we achieved the highest possible rating.

Have a look at our learning resources for paramedics.

Entry requirements

Prior successful study at underpinning level

More about levels and credits

Selection criteria

120 credits at level 5 or equivalent such as IHCD/EDXEL Paramedic training

To access this course you must be a qualified paramedic, registered with the Health Care and Professions Council or an equivalent and presently working in an emergency ambulance service or similar accident and emergency/first contact health care practice environment.

You will need to provide a statement from your current employer who must make reference to your professional competence.

Selection is via telephone interview with the course leader

Additional contact information

Name: Sharon Seddon
Title: Senior Lecturer/ Paramedic Practitioner
Email: sharon.seddon@cumbria.ac.uk

Modules

Two core modules (60 Credits)

• HPHP6000 Clinical Decision Making in Contemporary Paramedic Practice (40 credit core module)
• HLLG6018 Evidence Based Practice (20 credit core module)

Also two of the following optional modules: (60 credits)

• HLLG 6021 Leadership and Change
• HPHP 6002 Pre Hospital Care of Women and Children's Health
• HPHG 6036 Medicines - Therapeutics and Pharmacology
• HPHG 6030 Pathophysiology and Diseases in Practice
• HLLG 6005 Advancing Mental Health Across the Health Care Spectrum
• HPHG 6024 Emergency Care - Care of Minor Illness and or Trauma
• HPHG 6026 Emergency Care - Management of Acute Illness and or Major Trauma
• HLLG 6008 Clinical Supervision
• HLLM 6001 Multi Professional Support of Learning and Assessment in Practice
• HLLG 6031-35 Negotiated Learning
• HLLG 6029-30 Negotiated Learning
• HLLG 6025-28 Negotiated Learning
• HLLG 6042-46 Work Based learning

Course summary

The BSc(Hons) Practice Development: Developing Paramedic Practice has been designed in collaboration with the North West Ambulance Service to meet the needs of students working as Paramedics.

It is benchmarked against the Skills for Health Competency and Curriculum Framework for Emergency Care Practitioners (DoH 2007) and the competencies identified by the Royal College of Nursing for Advanced Nurse Practitioners (RCN, 2008).

The programme builds on academic achievement previously demonstrated at diploma level (level 5) and facilitates students’ ongoing professional development at level 6.

Here at the University of Cumbria we understand the demands that shift work presents so this course has been designed with you in mind. This course embraces e-learning technologies allowing you to study this course through distance and work based learning.