Module - Professional Paramedic Advocate HCPD7248
To prepare you as a registered paramedic to achieve the standards and competencies required to successfully undertake the role of the Professional Paramedic Advocate (PPA).

On successful completion, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a systematic understanding and achievement of the standards and competencies required to successfully undertake the role of the Professional Paramedic Advocate (PPA)
- Synthesise how the role of the Professional Paramedic Advocate (PPA)will be deployed using the A-EQUIP model
- Critically analyse how learning from this module may transform your understanding of your practice
Exploration of the A-Equip model including the background to the development of the model and policy drivers
- Role of the Professional Paramedic Advocate
- Adult learning styles
- Restorative Clinical Supervision
- Compassionate Resilience
- Quality Improvement - methods and measures
- Facilitators and barriers
- Leadership qualities and leadership theories in practice including leadership challenges
- Quality improvement and how does the PPA role facilitate this
- Mindfulness and reflection
Students who successfully complete this module as a stand-alone module will be eligible for a University transcript of credit.
This module is aimed at paramedics wishing to assume the role of Professional Paramedic Advocate (PPA). To be eligible to study this module, you must be a registered paramedic with live HCPC registration status.
You must demonstrate the ability to study at this level and commit to attempting the assessment. When taken as part of a specific named award, the module content and assessment must be focused towards the subject of that award.
20 Credit Health Module Pricing
ModuleTuition fees are set annually and are subject to review each year. The University may therefore raise tuition fees in the second or subsequent years of a course, in line with inflation and/or the maximum permitted by law or government policy. Students will be notified of any changes as soon as possible.
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