This subject contains a 16 days Compulsory Workplace Learning component.
The student is expected to spend 140 hours working in an ambulance setting.
This subject requires students to undertake clinical placements in an ambulance service setting. In this subject, students will have an opportunity to integrate theory into practice under supervision. It will develop the role of the paramedic as a clinician and build on the model of paramedic clinical competence in the context of paramedic clinical practice. During the period of 140 hours on clinical placement, students will have the opportunity to practice and develop their clinical skills in the management of patients with acute health conditions in a supervised clinical placement. Skills to be practised include communication and scene management and procedures associated with airway, breathing, circulation, posture and patient assessment.
SY/US
One session
School of Biomedical Sciences
Available only to students enrolled in the Graduate Dipoma of Clinical Practice (Paramedic).
CLS412
This subject contains a 16 days Compulsory Workplace Learning component.
The student is expected to spend 140 hours working in an ambulance setting.
Students are required to dedicate 140 hours of time in clinical placement in an ambulance service setting. This may require travel away from your home which may include costs of transportation, meals, and accommodation.
Students are required to purchase a Charles Sturt University Paramedic Student uniform for this subject to wear on the clinical placement.
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The information contained in the 2018 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: August 2018. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.