Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Off-site teaching will take place at Yorkshire Ambulance Service specialist clinical skills teaching facilities approved by the University. As partners with the University of Bradford, elements of the programme are taught off site by Yorkshire Ambulance Service staff. Off-site facilities are accessible by public transport from the University’s main campus. Clinical practice placement may be divided into two distinct categories: Ambulance Placement: this is undertaken exclusively on ambulance service emergency response vehicles. undertaken at a range of sites which may includes Non-Ambulance placement: ambulance service communications or non-emergency transport teams and other specialist clinical areas, such as A&E units, maternity units, theatres, coronary care units, as well as a range of primary care areas, such as nursing homes, minor injury units and community mental health teams. Optional module placement: Optional placement is determined by the module chosen, for example a student undertaking Cardiology’ as an optional ‘Adult module may wish to spend some of their practice placement time at a Coronary Care Unit, while students undertaking Physical Assessment and Clinical ‘Advanced Decision making’ as an option may wish to be placed at an Emergency Department, or with an ambulance service based advanced practice team. During the course of the programme clinical practice placement is divided to ensure that at least 60% of clinical practice placement undertaken is Placement’ and the remaining 40% is Placement’. ‘Ambulance ‘Non-Ambulance
Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Off-site teaching will take place at Yorkshire Ambulance Service specialist clinical skills teaching facilities approved by the University. As partners with the University of Bradford, elements of the programme are taught off site by Yorkshire Ambulance Service staff. Off-site facilities are accessible by public transport from the University’s main campus. Clinical practice placement may be divided into two distinct categories: Ambulance Placement: this is undertaken exclusively on ambulance service emergency response vehicles. Non-Ambulance placement: undertaken at a range of sites which may includes ambulance service communications or non-emergency transport teams and other specialist clinical areas, such as A&E units, maternity units, theatres, coronary care units, as well as a range of primary care areas, such as nursing homes, minor injury units and community mental health teams. Optional module placement: Optional placement is determined by the module chosen, for example a student undertaking ‘Adult Cardiology’ as an optional module may wish to spend some of their practice placement time at a Coronary Care Unit, while students undertaking ‘Advanced Physical Assessment and Clinical Decision making’ as an option may wish to be placed at an Emergency Department, or with an ambulance service based advanced practice team. During the course of the programme clinical practice placement is divided to ensure that at least 60% of clinical practice placement undertaken is ‘Ambulance Placement’ and the remaining 40% is ‘Non-Ambulance Placement’.
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