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%...
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...
Through the current study, the authors aim to illustrate the first-line response to patient falls that is operational in the independent care sector in a specific region of North East England. This...
A systematic review of published literature was performed in November 2016, using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses convention (Moher et al, 2009). Similar...
Three themes emerged from the thematic analysis: challenges of communication students' negative emotional response, and lack of social care and pathways. Themes and subthemes emerged from both first...
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...
More traditional methods of teaching teach the basics of a concept during classroom time and the student is expected to learn more deeply about the concept in self-directed study time. The basis of...
‘an overwhelming uncontrolled, systemic inflammatory response which is mediated by the immune system, the vascular endothelium and inflammatory pathways in response to an infective trigger’ .
Paramedics have provided advanced pre-hospital emergency medical care in the US since the early 1970s (National Highway Safety Traffic Administration (NHTSA), 2007; Edgerly, 2013). According to the...
Firstly, it is important to consider why particular decisions are made, whether diagnoses are correct and what assumptions are made about the patient. It is pertinent to reflect on whether there were...
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...
Patients at the end of their life may have a variety of symptoms or urgent care needs. Pain, nausea/vomiting, agitation, breathlessness and terminal respiratory secretions are commonly experienced...
Paramedics in an urban and urban/rural area of Ontario were recruited to participate in focus group sessions after ethics approval was obtained from the University of Toronto. Participant and focus...
The search strategy did not reveal any studies concerning the teaching of interpersonal skills to undergraduate paramedics. All six studies included in this review examined undergraduate programmes...
The suggestion that paramedics could manage their caseload differently, through referral to other healthcare providers or using alternative care destinations other than an emergency department (ED),...
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