Advanced Practice - Urgent Care
I have recently applied and been successful in obtaining a trainee advanced paramedic role within my service.
This will be the second cohort of trainees in this role, the 1st cohort have just finished their first year of uni and will be starting their prescribing in September AFAIK.
I have had numerous conversations with the first cohort, and they all seem to be very disillusioned with the role already.
At present they do a mix of shifts both RRV and Clinical hub shifts (for remote triage).
From what they say, they don't bring too much to the table just rather than a more indepth assessment and maybe higher risk threshold compared to other paras in the service
I have tried to get an expected scope of practice but this is still very vague and don't actually give any details whatsoever.
I suppose my questions are:
What does a typical day look like for the paramedic practitioners outside of NI? I.e what should i expect as this role progresses
How do you get tasked to jobs, is there an AP in the control room - do they also triage calls in-between tasking? Do they have their own stack? or is it completed by a regular dispatcher
What calls do you frequently try to target? does your service have a policy on calls to be "auto dispatched to" / "need further assessment from AP" / "don't even think about sending these guys"
I think i have a million more questions any maybe some of the replies will help guide me somewhat.
Thanks guys