Learning in varied ways that are hands-on, provides realistic and practical experiences in safe environments. It also enables students to practise their skills in different ways, giving them opportunities to strenghten their capabilities.
This is how we ensure students gain the skills and confidence they need to work in a real-world setting as a Paramedic.
1. Escape Room
Our escape room session is highly popular with our students. During this practical experience, they’ll be set challenges in four different rooms, testing their clinical skills, knowledge and their non-technical skills. Each room, if solved correctly, reveals a code. If they break the code, it leads them to the treasure!
2. The Linked-up Challenge
The Linked-up Challenge gets our student paramedics to think outside the box. Not all incidents paramedics go to will fall into a set format. They need to be able to work as a team in challenging environments. In this task they are all linked together but still need to be able to manage their patient effectively.
3. Extrication
Extrication is practicing removing people from a vehicle following an accident. However, in this simulation, there is an added twist… but we don’t want to spoil that for our prospective students, so you’ll have to wait and see what this is when you come to study with us!
4. SIM 1 - Inter-professional Education with Policing
SIM 1 sees our students utilising our cutting-edge facilities - here the students are dealing with a cardiac arrest in a flat. Space is limited, so we put their communication skills to the test, learning to work effectively as a team even in small spaces. What's more, students work inter-professionally with our policing students, helping to mirror real-life scenarios.
5. Major Incident
The major incident is the last simulation of year one, and this is one that the students love.
It is a multi-patient incident where they are expected to assess, manage, extricate and handover a variety of patients to A&E. This is complex and a challenge, but it shows the students how far they have come in just one year.
Not only are their skills and knowledge on display, but it demonstrates how they have grown in confidence from when they began their journey with us. And it always seems to fall on a very hot day!!
Skills tick list:
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Leadership
- Triage
- Clinical skills
- Clinical Decision Making
- Working under pressure