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Emergency Department Triage Nurses' Scope of Practice: An Observational Study

Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To explore emergency department triage nurses' scope of practice and activities related to their triage role and management of patients located in emergency department waiting areas. Design Exploratory, descriptive, observational study using naturalistic decision making.
Julie Considine, Elizabeth Oldland, Judy Currey, Philippa Blencowe, Katrina Maybury, Leanne Stella, Amy Pearson, Paul Buntine, Kate Curtis   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The recovery processes among paramedics who encountered violence during work—a narrative interview study

Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
Background Almost all paramedics encounter workplace violence (WPV) during their careers. The most common form of WPV is verbal, and the perpetrator is usually the patient.
Veera Kamaja, Hilla Nordquist
doaj   +1 more source

Palliative care patients in the emergency medical service: a retrospective cohort study from Finland

BMC Health Services Research
Background Paramedics are often involved in treating palliative care patients with difficulties regarding symptom control. They report minimal training in palliative care and find decision-making difficult.
Eemil Pesonen, Pauli Vuorinen, Leena Surakka, Juho T. Lehto, Sanna Hoppu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ethical issues in termination of resuscitation decision-making: an interview study with paramedics and relatives of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest non-survivors

BMJ Open
Background In out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), decisions to terminate resuscitation or transport the patient to hospital are ethically fraught. However, little is known about paramedics’ ethical concerns in these decision-making processes.Objective
Frances Griffiths, Anne-Marie Slowther, Karin Eli, Caroline J. Huxley, Galina Gardiner, Gavin D. Perkins, Michael A. Smyth   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The myth that slow test‐takers are worse students: Implications for time‐limited testing

Medical Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Problem Time‐limited testing, a form of assessment in which participants have a fixed amount of time to complete an exam, remains a global standard across the medical education continuum from admissions through licensure and board certification.
Saul J. Weiner, Yoon Soo Park, Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Kristina H. Petersen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

No Guide to Ground: Right‐Making and Right‐Makers

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is often taken for granted that right‐makers, that is, the things that make something—say, an action—right, do so by explaining why it is right. This view can be spelled out in terms of metaphysical ground: right‐making just is grounding of rightness facts.
Singa Behrens
wiley   +1 more source

Continuing Education Needs of Occupational Health Nurses in the Mining Industry: Implications for Public Health Nursing Workforce Development

Public Health Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives This study aims to (1) explore the job duties of nurses working in the mining sector, (2) identify the competencies they require to perform their roles effectively, and (3) examine organizational factors that influence their ability to provide occupational and public health services in the Indonesian mining industry.
Juli Dwi Prasetyono, Henny Permatasari, Agus Setiawan, Sigit Mulyono, Tantut Susanto, Muchtaruddin Mansyur   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Representing contemporary paramedic practice in Canada: Development of the national competency framework for paramedics

Paramedicine
Paramedicine is a domain of practice and health profession that specialises in the provision of health and social care across a range of settings including, but not limited to, emergency and primary care. Paramedics work in a variety of clinical settings
Alan M. Batt, Jennifer L. Bolster, Meghan Lysko, Pierre Poirier, Derek Cassista, Michael Austin, Cheryl Cameron, Elizabeth A. Donnelly, Becky Donelon, Noël Dunn, William Johnston, Chelsea Lanos, Matthew S. Leyenaar, Tyne M. Lunn, Paige Mason, Mary Osinga, Dugg Steary, Sean Teed, Charlene Vacon, Walter Tavares   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

Positional Asphyxia: A paramedics responsibility to protect

, 2020
As the world ground to halt in the early months of 2020, pandemic fever literally swept the globe. However, whilst we watched from our home’s mid pandemic, an incident in Minneapolis redirected our attention to another silent killer, positional asphyxia.
Whitfield, Steve, Steele, Jun
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Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What are the conditions under which business corporations expand their institutional power? This paper argues that institutional power is affected by the architecture of the “acquisition regime”—the set of formal (and informal) rules that govern how states purchase public services.
Reut Marciano, Shir Gal
wiley   +1 more source