📢 HCPC Registered Paramedics Please help by completing and spreading the word about this project researching Out-Of-Hospital Births and Obstetric emergencies Click the link or scan the QR code: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ntusurvey/pa… Eternally grateful 🙏

What’s something LIFE-SAVING from your specialty that everyone should know?

Thomas is looking for a few more participants before his survey closes, so if you have a spare 5-10 minutes to contribute it would be greatly appreciated! 🚑🚨 #MonashParamedicine 💙

ATTENTION ALL AUSTRALIAN PARAMEDICS 🚑 Project ASAP is a research study looking at the impact of shift work on paramedics and their work. ALS paramedics with 1 – 10 years experience from anywhere in Australia are eligible to sign up. Learn more here: redcap.helix.monash.edu/surveys/?s=PPY….

Sad news to share Tommy Robinson is coming back to the UK Still banned from Sandford Police area

It’s been 63 years since suicide was decriminalised in the UK. But so many of us still use the term ‘commit suicide’. Why does it matter? Language that links suicide and crime can increase stigma and prevent people struggling with suicidal thoughts from speaking out. If we

Just spent half an hour looking for the Tv remote, allll the usual spots, nothing…. Turns out toddler had shoved it through the window shutters 😩

If I got a little bit sick, I'd prefer a private hospital. If I got *really* sick, I'd want to be in a public hospital.

Menstrual cycle disorders are 14.43% higher in paramedics than the Australian average. 29% of respondents used hormonal contraception to make it easier to work in the paramedic environment. Thank you Lisa Hobbs for contextualising working conditions. #ACPIC24

Let's talk about the realities of abortion ≥ 27 weeks, a forced-birth GOP obsession. Note: CDC reports about 0.9% of abortions happen ≥ 21 weeks. This is about the same as in Canada and the UK, so the abortion rate here is not the result of laws. 1/

UK friends, what would be the best way to get a little gift / food delivered to a pal in a London hospital? (From the other side of the world so no apps)

Should we use NEWS2 as a triage tool? No. (Terms and conditions may apply, read the full study researchgate.net/publication/38… )

When people who are homeless are given permanent housing, they have fewer hospital admissions, more GP contacts, better mental health, fewer police contacts, and fewer prison sentences. The answer to homelessness is housing not antidepressants. - Nevil Peirse #RANZCP2024

Partner at the start of shift “I feel like we’re going to a STEMI today” Lo and behold, last job of the day…. A very unwell looking patient having a STEMI with runs of conscious VT 😳

Quick question to any of my collegues who work in higher education paramedic science programs. Are programs teaching or required to make the hcpc standards of proficiency for paramedics clear. Seeing so many people who don't realise they are not following these core standards?

Whoever came up with the Specsavers ad at Sydney Airport deserves a raise

Sunday off work done right 🌞

I was invited to a hospital debrief after a resuscitation the other day and it was so incredibly supportive and wholesome. Wonderful to hear so much praise for paramedics and our challenges from in hospital teams!

Nothing tops a 2 hour shift extension quite like getting back to find a mystery car blocking you in at work and night shift nowhere to be seen 😰😰😰

To everyone with a role in airway management. Join us for 6 weeks of free CPD and debate on hot topics in airway care. Highly recommended - I’ve completed it twice (CT1 and ST4) and now a third time as faculty. futurelearn.com/courses/airway…