In the April issue, I shared my experience of the Newly Qualified Paramedic (NQP) recruitment process, and provided some tips on preparation. Since then, I have completed a 3-week induction and a...
After completing this module, the paramedic will be able to: l Understand the key principles and frameworks that support decision-makingl Provide an overview of critical thinking and problem-solvingl...
Do you ever get the feeling that your mind is running a million miles per hour? Some of us are so accustomed to this background buzz that it has simply become a norm. How often do we tune into the...
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The dilemma involved a woman aged 56 years who was offered transport to hospital for specialist psychiatric assessment during a mental health crisis. She accepted this offer and was taken to the...
The leadership principles within the UK ambulance service are centred around several strategic points. These include enhancing leadership skills and abilities (Future Leaders Study, 2009), which...
The primary aim of this work was to review the UK-based literature to understand: whether the administration of IV antibiotics by the ambulance service to septic patients is associated with improved...
After completing this module, the paramedic will be able to: .
In recent years, people all over the world have taken note of strange weather patterns. In fact, this year's Earth Day, which takes place on 22 April, follows the year with the highest global...
Ectopic beats or extrasystoles are extra beats that come early in the cardiac cycle. They were first described by the Chinese physician, Pien Ts'lo, in 600 BC. Ectopic activity is detected in 40–75%...
Recent reports of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change discuss the unequivocal contribution of ill-health and healthcare towards rising global temperatures and vice versa. The NHS has a...
To the authors' knowledge, this is the first study to explore ambulance clinicians' perceptions of the APCC role. It identifies four main themes from the perceptions of ambulance clinicians who...
The aim of this study was to explore paramedics' experiences of establishing ALS in OHCA. It seeks to lift the ALS algorithm from the page and explore, without fear of judgement, paramedics' heuristic...
Using the Goal-Question Metric (Basili et al, 2022), the aim was decided as: to analyse technology commitment for the purpose of understanding attitudes and predicting utilisation behaviour with...
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’....
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