Leadership and Management

Leadership characteristics to reduce staff attrition and absence related to burnout

After completing this module, the paramedic will be able to: Understand and be able to display emotional inteligenceUnderstand the prevelance of burnout within the paramedic professionDisplay...

Paramedic management of patients with mental health issues: a scoping review

The purpose of a scoping review is to consider as comprehensive a range of data as possible, with less emphasis on quality. This allows research areas requiring further study to be identified and...

Paramedics at risk? How responding to a terror attack affects mental wellbeing

This literature review aims to critically analyse contemporary research that explores the psychological impact of real-life TAs on paramedics within the prehospital environment to answer the question:...

From frontline to forefront: paramedics as healthcare leaders within the NHS

Various leadership theories can be applied to understand the potential of paramedics as effective healthcare leaders..

Career crossroads

As both a paramedic and a junior doctor, I am often being asked about the journey into medicine. The conversation perhaps stems from an acknowledgment that paramedicine can be tough, and within all of...

Hidden layers: neurodiversity in paramedicine

Terms such as ‘neurodiverse’ and ‘neurodivergent’ emerged in the 1990s, coined by Judy Singer, an autistic sociologist, who was seeking an alternative to deficit-based language such as ‘disorder’....

Perceptions and experiences of mental health support for ambulance employees

This study was designed to meet five objectives, the first of which was to investigate work-related stressful events and how they relate to staff characteristics, such as job role and gender, and...

Innovations in preoperative control of exsanguination in major trauma

The commonest and most immediate setting of trauma-related mortality is the scene of the incident. Pfeifer et al's (2019) systematic review of more than 7000 trauma deaths found up to 47.6% of these...

Mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers: an ethical dilemma?

Vaccine hesitancy is defined by the WHO as a ‘refusal or delay in vaccine acceptance despite availability of vaccine services’ (Butler and MacDonald, 2015)..