Defining non-health professional responders in prehospital care as trained emergency healthcare workers – a strength-based approach
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.
Authors
- Zelda Doyle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8648-1383)
- Elliot Williams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0609-7520)
- A. Baron (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6208-0446)
- Fabian Perez
- Corey Sclater (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2527-8169)
Institutions
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- University of Tasmania (AU)
- NSW Ambulance (AU)
- Charles Sturt University (AU)
- Kingston University London (GB)
- Royal North Shore Hospital (AU)
- Far West Local Health District (AU)
- The University of Notre Dame Australia (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Paramedicine
- Published
- 2025-03-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/27536386251329453
- Primary Topic
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00