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Defining non-health professional responders in prehospital care as trained emergency healthcare workers – a strength-based approach

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Throughout Australasia, clinicians who provide out-of-hospital care but are not registered as healthcare professionals do not have a collective title which accurately describes their role and instead are often classed as ‘non-healthcare professionals’ by large organisations, and within policy and research. Defining a group of clinicians by what they are not is a depreciative means of identifying a workforce. We propose a unifying strengths-based terminology for these clinicians to be used in research and practice.

Source: Paramedicine

DOI: 10.1177/27536386251329453

Authors: Aidan Baron, Corey Sclater, Elliot Williams, Fabian Perez, Zelda Doyle

Institutions: University of Tasmania, Kingston University London, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Far West Local Health District, The University of Sydney, NSW Ambulance, Royal North Shore Hospital, Charles Sturt University

Language: English

Topic: Trauma and Emergency Care Studies

Subfield: Emergency Medicine

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4408922913

FWCI: 1.042

Cites: 5

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10