SPRINT Paramedics = great idea, rapid response to emergencies, filter the crap jobs from transport crews
ECP...... STUPID idea.... ambos playing nurses/nurse practitioner's! (with MUCH less training) and nurse practitioner = 3 year basic nursing degree, then 1 year GNP, the grad dip in speciality i.e emergency, then masters, then portfolio then nurse pract status...
ECP = basic Ambo training 3 year degree (or some of the old guys/gal with Diploma), some years on road, then an internal Intensive Care Course then ECP few weeks training! (of note some ambulance services interstate require their Ambos to sit a grad diploma to achieve ICP status not a Dr Hugh internal course!
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ECP =Its a duplication of roles, waste of money are resources... we don't have enough ambos now, so what do we do take them off their primary role (emergency response) and place them in low acuity work......! makes sense NOT
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Would it have been better for Department of health to put nurses in non marked cars responding to these low care jobs when SAAS crews, sprint or SAAS comms picked them up?
If you want to be a nurse be a nurse,,,,,, if you want to be an ambo be an ambo!!
I bet none of the current ECP will be in these roles by this time next year, they will get boared and go back to emergency work.