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...
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...
Although intervention to reduce excessive drinking might usually be seen as the remit of other health professionals, particularly general practitioners (GPs), the modern paramedic has options for...
Discussions of specific religions are a gateway to topics such as inclusiveness, prejudice and tolerance, consent and the patients’ rights to choose. Such discussions provides students with more...
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...
Intranasal drug therapy is a well-established route of treatment, accepted on a global level within hospitals and doctors surgeries (Jain, 2008) and is currently being used throughout the US with...
Paramedics in urban and urban/rural areas of Ontario were recruited to participate in focus group sessions after ethics approval was obtained from the University of Toronto. A qualitative study of a...
The present study is a review of the published research exploring the informal (personal) coping strategies employed by frontline ambulance workers in relation to perceived stressful experiences. The...
I was called to an accident in a home environment involving a 14-year-old female in which a kitchen appliance had fallen onto her foot causing a large laceration and possibly a fracture. She and her...
Self-care can be described as:.
The sudden deterioration dataset had been created previously by linking twelve months of ambulance trauma data (2002) with the Victorian State Trauma Registry (VSTR) (Boyle, 2008). The VSTR contains...
A formulary is a list of approved medicines. Most hospital and primary care prescribers work within an agreed formulary of medicines (which may differ between regions), and ambulance services have...
There were 405 articles located in the search with 21 meeting the inclusion criteria. There were five studies excluded leaving 16 studies available for review There was one pragmatic cluster...
With the introduction of the End of Life Care Strategy (DH, 2009), greater attention is being paid to end of life care. One of the aims of the strategy is to enable more people to die at home. It is...
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