Introduction Psychology is a crucial component of paramedicine, influencing both the effectiveness of patient care and the well-being of paramedics. As first responders, paramedics frequently encounter high-stress situations and traumatic events that affect both the patient and the worker. Integrating psychology into paramedicine not only enhances the ability for paramedics to manage their own stress and maintain mental fitness, but also improves their capacity to provide compassionate, patient-centred care. This essay explores four types of psychology relevant to paramedicine, including health stress and coping, fitness to practice, health literacy, and neuropsychology. The integration of these psychological principles is essential in ensuring …show more content…
It entails maintaining the mental, emotional, and physical well-being required to carry out their responsibilities with efficiency. Physical health ensures the paramedics can handle the job's demands, like lifting patients, responding quickly to emergencies, and working long shifts. Mental health ensures that they have the ability to make wise choices, manage stress, and communicate with patients, coworkers, and other healthcare professionals in an efficient manner. Finally, emotional health allows paramedics to be able to handle the pressures and emotional toll of the job, which often involves dealing with traumatic events and providing support to patients in distress. In order to give patients the best care possible, paramedics must be in good physical and mental health. This is known as maintaining fitness. The Paramedicine Board of Australia (2021) states that the key elements of fitness to practice must include competence, professionalism, including a sense of responsibility and accountability, self-awareness and professional values, sound mental health and the capacity to maintain health and well-being for …show more content…
Comprehending the fundamentals of neuropsychology enables paramedics to evaluate and treat patients suffering from neurological disorders such as seizures, strokes, and traumatic brain injuries. It can also help paramedics recognise patients suffering from diseases such as dementia and how they can deal with those patients. This can be a difficult process since many of these kinds of patients also have problems with memory, verbal communication, perception, abstract thinking, and judgement. Ruff (2009) furthermore expresses the challenges paramedics can face assessing patients with neurocognitive disorders, stating that the many neurological injuries can be difficult to identify by first
Gender Discrimination in Emergency Medical Services *No Works Cited The tones go off, there is a scramble for shirts, ties, and boots. Dispatch announces a motor vehicle accident five blocks away. EMTs and Paramedics climb into ambulances. Police are reporting multiple personal injuries. There is a rush of adrenaline through all those involved. The street comes alive with flashing red and white lights and screaming sirens. Ambulances tear down the street to the accident scene. They arrive
"strewn" may indicate the randomness of death . In my story I was trying to show a fear of death. A man has a seizure and the paramedics go to save him. They are scared of death. Perhaps this is why they are paramedics? To cheat death? Save lives? I always imagine death as a black figure, male and always cool, calm and collected. This instils even more fear into the paramedics. Death can be anywhere. We can be expecting it or it can catch us unawares but we all share one thing in common. Death. "Ambulances"
I could hear the sirens in the distance. Everything blurred into slow motion. It had attacked. . . . Hot summer sun glistened in the bright blue sky. The white sand felt warm beneath our bare feet. My friends, Patrick and Tommy, and I had just spent a glorious day at the beach building sand castles and jumping the white washed waves. It was another perfect day of summer vacation. Our rumbling stomachs indicated that it was time to venture home. We vaulted on to our scooters and rode back
The tasks for a paramedic is to help people in need. They can either be sick or hurt, they will get the medical treatment they deserve. Some responsibilities of a paramedic are to take any ill or injured patient to the hospital while giving treatment, use any technical equipment needed to help the patient, able to necessary surgical procedures, monitor the patient's health, see if they absolutely need to go to the hospital (Paramedic Schools & EMT Training, Pg.1). As for communication skills, be
The Medical advancements of WWI had a huge impact on the war; many soldiers’ lives were saved due to advances in medicine and the invention of the ambulance. The First World War had many casualties and deaths, many of these deaths were not caused by the “invisible soldier”. Most of the injuries in the war were caused by large explosions and gunshot wounds. With the invention of the ambulance, many soldiers were aided sooner rather than later, resulting in their lives being saved. At first Ambulances
had the most influence has been on the transport systems and clinical practices used. Their uses in the military pre hospital care world have worked particularly well in the civilian world. As a result of such they have been adapted by civilian paramedics quite readily. Helicopters were first used as an ambulance in the sky during the Korean War (1950-53) (2). But it wasn’t until the late 70’s and early 80’s that helicopters were used in civilian pre hospital care (3). They were introduced to transport
communicable diseases, toxic substances, ionizing radiation, medicinal preparations, inclement weather and other conditions common to a pre-hospital environment”. When I was doing my research I found an article of personality types that often are paramedics or EMTs. A lot of people working in emergency medical services are Type A personalities. The article explains the traits of a Type A personality to be someone who is competitive, self-critical, and feel a sense of urgency constantly. “There is little
terrorist attacks, major events, etc.…An excellent example of a terrorist attack would be the Boston Marathon where a major event was held and many people were hurt from a bomb going off . That terrorist attack took more than just rescue workers, paramedics, and other experienced professionals, it took civilians helping each other until professional help arrived. Natural disasters could be consider tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, or any other weather condition that requires outside resources
After extracting the screaming infant from the wreckage, the paramedics delicately situate the boy on the stretcher and wheel him into the ambulance. The child, a victim of a traumatic motor vehicle collision, barely holds onto his life, having lost a limb with severe blood loss and head trauma. When the ambulance screeches to a halt outside the emergency room doors, nurses sprint outside and bring the agonized boy inside. Before they can even settle him in a room, doctors have already inputted
Firefighter Paramedic A firefighter paramedic is a highly educated firefighter who is trained in firefighting tactics and is also trained to be a paramedic when necessary. Firefighters respond to emergencies that threaten life, property, or the environment Paramedics respond to life threatening emergencies for sick/ill or injured people. Most people in this field have another job that they have, simply for the fact that there is a large amount of down time. Additionally is the hours they have are
Paramedic A paramedic is a senior healthcare professional worker at a critical accident or a medical emergency. Paramedics generally work on their own, or with an emergency care assistant, who respond to emergency calls as part of an accident and emergency crew or at times as a first responder, or an ambulance technician, who asses the patient’s condition and observe them during critical time and therefore give essential treatment that is needed.my these observations they will recommend what a certain
Emergency medical technicians are just like the paramedics. Actually they are kind of like the paramedics they just have different levels and parts to them. “The career is currently growing at an excellent rate and is expected to grow up to 71% through the year 2005. There are half a million emergency medical technicians today in the united states” (Hancock 1). “Emergency medical technicians are typically called to the scene of an incident by a 911 operator and they might be with themselves or with
of a paramedic. Being able to help someone in a time of need is important to me. Being a paramedic isn't just a career it’s a passion I have. There are a lot of things required to be a paramedic. You need to be able to be calm in stressful situation. If you want to make a difference in someone’s life this is a great career. Paramedics work in all kinds of conditions at all times of the day. The schooling to be a paramedic isn’t too long but it is a hard program. The first paramedics go all
Ambulance Drivers during World War I World War I allowed for the emergence of many new types of warring equipment. The airplane proved to be very useful and successful. The armored tank became an integral part of an army. However, one of the many new innovations that is frequently overlooked is the introduction of the ambulance. Even though ambulances were used as early as the 1480’s, they were first predominantly used in World War I. The main reason for this is the advent of the automobile
“Should paramedics be able to declare and call time of death on casualties before they reach a hospital/doctor?” A paramedic’s first job when arriving at the scene of an accident is to categorise patients from lowest to highest casualties according to their status and injuries. When a person suddenly becomes ill or is injured in an accident, they must receive medical treatment immediately. There are people called “Emergency Medical Technicians” (EMTs) or paramedics who are trained to apply First