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The Future Role and Education of Paramedic Ambulance Service Personnel (Emerging Concepts)
Publications > The future role... > Difficulties and Opportunities
5. Difficulties and Opportunities
5.1 One major difficulty
must be recognised, but can be readily overcome. Nurses play a crucial
role in Accident and Emergency Departments as elsewhere in hospitals. If
they were to regard PEC's as specifically ambulance personnel with
allegiance only to another profession they may have grave misgivings about
the long term effects of the scheme. Important aspects of care,
facilitated in a unique manner by nursing education, may be - or be
perceived to be - threatened. Such attitudes would be less likely to arise
if education of these pre-hospital care providers very visibly had some
shred components with that of the nursing profession.
5.2 The new emphasis on
academic ability also presents challenges and opportunities. Trends
already established should ensure that many who are recruited into the
ambulance service will have been high achievers at school, but care must
be taken to ensure that they can have confidence in their future career
prospects. Increasingly, entrants will want not only a role that fulfils
their immediate aspirations but also a qualification that has value in
it's own right - and this implies a growing need for appropriate
University courses. Whilst all degrees have intrinsic value, the committee
urges that University education for PEC's should be focussed on the
practical needs of the service yet also offer the flexibility that will be
required if an adequate number of academically gifted and ambitious people
are to be attracted into the profession.
5.3 These two
considerations lead to the promotion of an educational programme that is
University based with a b academic component coupled with instruction
and experience in practical skills, delivered by members of the nursing,
medical, and new paramedical (ambulance) professions. The course must be
modelled around the needs of the patients in the community - both
pre-hospital and non-hospital - whilst providing an educational experience
that has value outside as well as within ambulance services.
5.4 We believe that this
can best be achieved by a programme that has an initial component that
will be common to a variety of health care professionals, followed by
modules that will be specific to emergency pre-hospital and non-hospital
care.
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