Graduate Certificate of Community Paramedicine

Edith Cowan University

Designed to provide paramedics with the necessary knowledge and skills to undertake a career in community paramedicine working in urgent care nonurgent care and primary healthcare settingsThe course focuses on the clinical issues directly related to extended care practice and develops a greater depth of understanding of the pathophysiology assessment and management of a variety of acute and chronic medical and minor trauma patients in the community healthcare settingStudents will learn advancedlevel clinical knowledge to apply to their daily paramedic practice while at the same time learning advanced skills in evidencebased practiceThe combination of advanced clinical knowledge and skills provides students with the ability to continuously improve their own clinical practice as well as impact on the organisation they are employed by and the broader Paramedicine communityCourse learning outcomesCommunicate specialised medical and paramedical knowledge research principles and methods to demonstrate a high level of extended care ParamedicineApply cognitive technical and creative skills to investigate and evaluate complex ideas concepts and theories in authentic extended care Paramedical contextsUse selfmanagement skills to initiate appraise and operate in complex extended care Paramedicine professional environmentsCareer OpportunitiesPossible future job titlesCommunity Paramedic Paramedic Practitioner Paramedic Extended Care Paramedic Advanced Care Paramedic Specialist Paramedic Industrial Paramedic Primary Care Paramedic