Paramedic Placements: A Pocket Guide for Nursing and Health Care

By Karan Botsford

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lantern Publishing
• Release date: Feb 29, 2024
• ISBN: 9781914962172

Book preview

Before you go

1.Preparing for placement

2.Professionalism

1

Preparing for placement

Scared, excited, nervous, overwhelmed… these are just some of the feelings we experienced before our first clinical placements. We hope that this guide will help you through those first days and weeks, wherever you go on placement.

You will meet a range of different people and will be learning a lot of new things. Being a student paramedic is exciting, with the professional career you are about to embark on expanding and broadening into new areas. You will no doubt get to spend time in a range of different placements; these tips have been shared with us by our own students, as well as from our own