At The Connected University, we're connecting great minds to great
opportunities, students to industry and you to a future in paramedic science. As
a student paramedic at Staffordshire University you will learn an awful lot, you'll have
a lot of fun you'll be working with people who are on the same wavelength
and have the same aspirations as you. Paramedic science is an important
subject to study at uni, first and foremost it's your first step into
becoming a paramedic to get a great qualification at the end of it with the
potential to go on to the West Midlands Ambulance Service or any other service
around the UK. Best thing about the course is definitely placement. It's 50%
practical so we are on the road a lot. We've got great connections with West
Midlands Ambulance Service and the facilities they're just fantastic and I couldn't
compare any other university with the facilities we've got here. The skills
labs here are fantastic you've got plenty of time to practice all your
skills like your intubation and your cannulation, staff are absolutely
fantastic they're always there to help us.
At Staffordshire University we're connected with a wide variety of different
industries and organisations mainly within the healthcare sector. West
Midlands Ambulance Service are a prime example where they're our main placement
provider and we utilize their mentors and work with their mentors to develop
the best possible learning environment that we can for the students.
So that it's not always just looking in books and trying to get the information they
need from books and online resources it adds practical experience. We've got a
house at Stoke campus which has got cameras in every room and speakers in
every room the students can respond to those incidents as if they were
responding in real life and then they are peer reviewed by their fellow
students and by us from a remote location as we're watching in whilst
that's going on. Starting from outside the house as if you've just come off the
ambulance just go into the patient no one's there other than the patient
because everyone's watching it from upstairs through cameras and then
everyone will come down and feedback because they've all been watching listening from
upstairs so it's really good it makes it real life it's hard to do scenarios in a
skills lab but when you're in a house it's just really nice and natural.
During their training we take them to Safeside
and this is a purpose-built facility where they've got a street that has a
house that we can set on fire it has a zebra crossing it has a double decker
bus a health center a canal a train and even a train track so again we can set
instances up in these places if they were responding to something in real life.
Recently I've just been filmed for a programme called Ambulance which will be
on BBC One. They followed us on our normal day-to-day activity, following
us from when the calls come in so there'll be a camera crew filming for
when a call comes in and then when it gets passed to us on the ground and then
you get to see the whole trail of that story, it was interesting it was good I
enjoyed it, it was a good experience to go through.
The key thing really is competence, it's an outcomes based course so they have to be
competent at the end of it in order to meet the HCPC's standards of practice
It enables the students to have that overall management of a scene and to
be able to incorporate some key skills like endotracheal intubation and
cannulation and defibrillation and to be able to build that into a framework.
Once our paramedics graduate with their degree that entitles them to membership
of the Health and Care Professions Council Register which means that they
can use the registered title of paramedic. The majority of our paramedic graduates go
to work for ambulance trusts and some paramedics may choose to work in the
private sector private hospitals and private ambulance services, we have a
number that do that. Came to an Open Day and I was immediately sold. I feel at home
everyone is like a big family environment. We have 99 percent
employability. Easy decision. I made a decision to become a paramedic and then
they took me on they gave me a chance and I don't regret it one bit I love it I
love the job, literally the best career choice I made. The future of education is here
connecting learning to experience and industry. Our state-of-the-art
facilities are waiting for you. Staffordshire University - The Connected University.
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