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,...
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...
A methodical literature search using well known related databases was undertaken to acquire access to a sufficient information pool, enabling the exploration and formulation of practice...
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...
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...
Dyslexia has many dimensions, and should not be represented by one simple definition (Reid, 2016). Dyslexia impacts people in many different ways, taking a range of diverse forms such as, but...
The Royal College of Psychiatrists Working Group, which comprises a multidisciplinary team collectively define gender dysphoria as ‘the distress associated with the experience of one's personal gender...
Weighted participant feedback is shown in figure 3. Two areas of consensus emerged in the focus group that indicated the value of the use of immersive media within simulations according to the...
A literature search was conducted (circa 2000 to mid-2013) with the purpose of gaining a better understanding of the potential barriers for BME groups to accessing paramedic education. Literature...
I had a feeling that the job would be a challenging one given it involved a child. I glanced at the two-way radio and silently hoped; cancel us and we can go back to the mess room and work our way...
A dedicated stroke training course for paramedics was developed by a multidisciplinary working party, comprising healthcare professionals (from stroke clinician backgrounds) and educationalists, to...
After taking it to the wider team, we could see where it linked to each area of practice we were teaching and set about embedding it into all of our practice placements and linking it to our teaching...