Leadership and Management

Durham and Cleveland police firearms unit tactical team medics: lessons from the first six years

Training in this curriculum is provided by military and civilian doctors and paramedics along with the forces own training team. Importantly, whilst the main aim of the course was to provide emergency...

Ocular management for CS gas exposure: exploring treatment in the pre-hospital setting

The use of tear gas as a Riot Control Agent (RCA) by law enforcement agencies has dramatically increased in recent years and is used worldwide to control riots, protests and civil unrest (Rothenburg...

Development of clinical and inter-personal skills to support people living with dementia

Three themes emerged from the thematic analysis: challenges of communication students' negative emotional response, and lack of social care and pathways. Themes and subthemes emerged from both first...

Live tweeting by ambulance services: a growing concern

A brief analysis of a convenience sample of existing tweets found numerous breaches of professionalism and potential risks to public confidence using the legal and ethical measures identified above....

Emotional labour in paramedic practice: student awareness of professional demands

Hochschild defines the term ‘emotional labour’ as ‘the management of feeling to create a publicly observable facial and bodily display’ (Hochschild, 2012). Where this exists as an integral part of...

Exploratory study into the views of paramedics on paramedic prescribing.

In 1999, a Department of Health medicines review chaired by Dr June Crown identified that there was overwhelming support for the extension of prescribing rights for a range of health professionals,...

Future of digital technology in paramedic practice: blue light of discernment in responsive care for patients?

In an ever-increasingly digital society, the profile of IT literacy of patients seen in everyday paramedic practice is a significant factor in how they approach understanding their medical conditions...

Taking healthcare to the community: the evolving role of paramedics

‘Successful community paramedic programmes feature three common elements.’ .

Appropriateness of action learning in the physical and virtual spaces: a discussion

Action learning is attributed to the British researcher Reginald Revans, who during his time as a research student at Cambridge University in the 1940s (Revans, 1982), worked alongside a talented...

Community paramedics: need of legal education specific to the pre-hospital non-emergency environment (discussion based on Texas)

Community paramedicine institutes medical monitoring, treatment, and interventions performed by a paramedic into the home setting (White and Wingrove, 2012). However, community paramedicine also...

Patient confidentiality and safety: a classic conundrum

An ability to account for our actions with a clear evidence base is a crucial component of professional accountability (Gallagher and Hodge, 2012) and reflected in a healthcare professional's code of...

Principlism: when values conflict

The four principles approach to biomedical ethics provides a straightforward framework for considering moral dilemmas, and is based on four moral principles: respect for autonomy, beneficence,...