units
PAR4303
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2012 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.
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Level | Postgraduate |
Faculty | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences |
Offered | Peninsula First semester 2012 (Day) Peninsula Second semester 2012 (Day) Peninsula Summer semester A to Semester one 2012 (Day) |
Coordinator(s) | Ingrid Brooks |
This unit will cover the theoretical underpinnings required to develop in the student an
appropriate level of knowledge, understanding and skill related to the provision of
trauma care. Trauma care is approached from the contextual perspective of trauma
systems, time critical guidelines and trauma triage criteria. Specific traumatic injuries
are discussed in depth and practice in the related trauma skills is provided.
By the completion of this unit the student will be able to:
Examinations (75%)
Advanced trauma life support simulation (25%)
Professional development assessment (Pass/Fail)
104 hours comprising lectures, tutorials, practical sessins and clinical scenarios, self-directed learning materials and WebCT, 20 hours supervised hospital clinical practice, 32 hours independent work.
This unit is only available to students sponsored by Ambulance Victoria, and the
Alfred Hospital Emergency and Trauma Centre, or other industry sponsored
students.