Education

Nearly qualified student paramedics' perceptions of reflection and use in practice

Searching the key words ‘reflection AND paramedics’ yielded very few results, which focused mainly on ‘how to’ guidance on reflection. The literature search was therefore widened to encompass other...

A tactical analgesic option for Durham and Cleveland police firearms medics: the journey

Any change to TTM policy or procedures has to follow a strict process; this involves the convening of the course clinical governance body, the Tactical Medical Advisory Group (TMAG). This faculty...

Human factors in student paramedic practice

An experienced band 6 paramedic and a final year student paramedic were called to a 64–year-old man with chest pain. On arrival, the patient said he had been trying to contact his doctor's surgery to...

Examining the benefits of paramedic engagement for the novice researcher

Professional paramedic engagement encompasses the consultation of practitioners within their area of expertise, who provide early and essential critical value and propose changes in study projects to...

A qualitative exploration of current paramedic cardiac auscultation practices

CA is a skill using both the bell and diaphragm of a stethoscope on the praecordium to identify both normal and abnormal sounds emanating from the heart. This is part of a complete examination of the...

Student paramedic views of an international clinical and cultural learning experience

In the paramedic and other health professions in Australia, there is sometimes limited guidance from accrediting bodies about the necessary elements comprising a quality placement, or limited detail...

Building psychological resilience in the paramedic

Historically, the origins of ‘serious play’ as a concept can be found in the seminal work of Piaget (1951) on social constructivism, and the version later developed in Harel and Papert's (1991)...

Safe transfer of simulation-based intubation skills to patients in cardiac arrest

This quasi-experimental study was performed at the pre-hospital unit in the North Denmark Region from February 2010 to December 2012, over a total of 35 months, including the 1-month training period..

Integrating aged care in the curriculum: the importance of design and evaluation

The student experience survey during the 2014 placement was attempted by 69 out of 123 students—a response rate of 56%. The median student age was 21 years (interquartile range (IQR) 19–27) and 58%...

An innovation in mental health specialty placements

Action research is commonly described as any research into practice carried out by those involved in that practice, with an aim to change and improve it. It is concerned therefore with both ‘action’...

Time for Dementia: an innovation in education

Time for Dementia (Banerjee et al, 2016) is an educational programme for undergraduate healthcare students including medical, adult and mental health nursing, and allied health professionals, as well...

A day in the life of a paramedic advanced clinical practitioner in primary care

The paramedic profession has formally existed in the UK for less than two decades (Newton 2011). Historically, the role of the paramedic has been two-fold (Paranjape 2017):.