Various leadership theories can be applied to understand the potential of paramedics as effective healthcare leaders..
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...
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’....
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...
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...
Vaccine hesitancy is defined by the WHO as a ‘refusal or delay in vaccine acceptance despite availability of vaccine services’ (Butler and MacDonald, 2015)..
A mixed-methods study combining quantitative and qualitative analysis was designed (Schifferdecker and Reed, 2009). The authors used the explanatory model (Schifferdecker and Reed, 2009), with the...
Stemming from the works of Barnard (1938) and Follett (1941), organisational behaviour theory is characterised by its approach to the analysis of an organisation and its people on a macro scale. The...
Teaching CPR to children in school in various ways can be effective (Plant and Taylor, 2015), and mandatory CPR training for schoolchildren may provide an opportunity to improve the bystander CPR...
