Action learning is not a new concept. The phrase was coined by Professor Reginald Revans in the 1950s when trying to understand some of the routine challenges facing coal mine workers. Reginald Revans...
999 activity increased by 6.9% last year (Anderson, 2013) with incidents resulting in an ambulance service clinician attending scene increasing by 4% (Anderson, 2013) and patients discharged on scene...
For decades there has been debate concerning the presence of lay people during resuscitation attempts. Predominantly the focus of the research has been in-hospital although in recent years we have...
There can be no doubting the popularity, or quality, of the ABC series of clinical texts as over 40 volumes are currently in print on a broad spectrum of medical matters. Having reviewed a number of...
‘There was widespread feeling among delegates that the paramedic profession in the UK is probably as far advanced as in developed countries’ .
As a group of autonomous practitioners, AHPs work with a number of other professionals and also at many points along the care pathway. The report acknowledges that paramedics and other AHPs provide an...
‘It is a truly humbling experience to meet the award winners who have saved lives and to see how the people they saved are doing so well and enjoying being with their family, grateful for being...
The Canterbury Christ Church Student Paramedic Society was set up to promote the role of the student paramedic and to provide continuing professional development opportunities for all health and...
Cannulation is the main barrier to the administration of opioid analgesia, and this has been shown to be a problem in the young, the elderly, the shocked patient and the cognitively impaired. Studies...
To establish a structure to improve the development of essential non-practical skills..
Evaluation is a statement which appraises or adds value to something (Simpson et al, 1986). Evaluation is regularly paired with assessment which encompasses benchmarking and ranking; however, there...
The concept of work-readiness refers to the paramedic graduate's capacity to transfer their entry-level qualifications and job-specific competence to the workforce and to quickly adapt to normal work...
This literature review incorporates two principal searches. Initially the review interrogated the Ovid Medline database, with search terms including ‘extrication’, ‘movement’, ‘pre-hospital’ and...
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