Paramedic Placements: A Pocket Guide for Nursing and Health Care - Couverture souple

Botsford, Karan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1914962168 ISBN 13 : 9781914962165

Editeur : Lantern Publishing Ltd, 2024

Synopsis

Paramedic placements can be daunting – you’ll be working in a range of settings and supporting individuals with a variety of conditions. There are new colleagues to work with, and newly learned theory to put into practice. This pocket guide is designed to make your placements much more enjoyable and less stressful.
From ambulance placements to stroke assessment, via manual handling, it’s full of practical detail, hints and tips.

• Written by an experienced lecturer with key input from students – this guidance is really produced with you in mind.
• Pocket-sized format – carry it with you at all times.
• Space to make your own notes – be it uniform policy, new terminology, or just the names of your new colleagues!

Reduce your stress and make the most of your placements by having this book to hand from the start.

Contents

Before you go
1. Preparing for placement
   1.1 Planning for your first day
  1.2 Absence

2. Professionalism
  2.1 Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
  2.2 College of Paramedics
  2.3 Social media use

Going on placement
3. Your first day

4. Working with your practice educator
  4.1 Issues in practice

Settling there
5. Communication and documentation
  5.1 Communication
  5.2 Documentation
  5.3 Incident reporting/DATIX
  5.4 Alternative communication aids

6. Patient assessments
  6.1 Assessing response levels
  6.2 Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability, Exposure (ABCDE)
  6.3 Basic life support
  6.4 Sepsis 6
  6.5 Stroke Assessment
  6.6 Assessment of pain
  6.7 Mental capacity assessment

7. Medications
  7.1 Routes of administration
  7.2 Common medications used in the ambulance service

8. Manual handling

9. Hand hygiene

10. Assessments in practice

Going on ambulance placements
11. Ambulance placement
  11.1 What to expect
  11.2 Potential learning outcomes
  11.3 Roles and responsibilities
  11.4 Uniform
  11.5 Common ambulance terminology

Going on non-traditional placements
12. Making the most of non-traditional placements
  12.1 Common non-ambulance placement terminology

13. Care homes
  13.1 What to expect
  13.2 Potential learning outcomes
  13.3 Roles and responsibilities
  13.4 Uniform

14. Hospices
  14.1 What to expect
  14.2 Potential learning outcomes
  14.3 Roles and responsibilities
  14.4 Uniform

15. Community/primary care
  15.1 What to expect
  15.2 Potential learning outcomes
  15.3 Roles and responsibilities
  15.4 Uniform

16. Acute hospital setting
  16.1 What to expect
  16.2 Potential learning outcomes
  16.3 Roles and responsibilities
  16.4 Uniform

17. Maternity
  17.1 What to expect
  17.2 Potential learning outcomes
  17.3 Roles and responsibilities
  17.4 Uniform
  17.5 Specific maternity terms

Moving on
18. Reflection and personal development

19. FAQs

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lantern Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1914962168
• ISBN 13: 9781914962165
• Reliure: Couverture à spirales
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible