Decision Making in Paramedic Practice

This updated and expanded third edition contains all the essential information to help you apply decision making to your clinical role as a healthcare professional. Chapters have been brought in line with the latest guidance and developments as the paramedic profession has evolved, emphasising the importance and complexities of critical thinking and decision making relevant to all practice settings. The new edition also includes aspects of professionalism, understanding why things go wrong, and clinical leadership, as well as an additional chapter on inclusive decision making.

Key features include:

• A comprehensive overview of decision-making theory and how it applies to the paramedic role
• Updated case studies chapter
• Practice tips and checklists
• Evidence-based and up-to-date with latest guidance
• Ethical and professional considerations within paramedic practice

This book will be essential reading for student paramedics as well as qualified paramedics, ambulance clinicians, and wider healthcare professional groups undertaking continuous professional development. The book will support healthcare professionals interested in the theory and practice of decision-making in clinical practice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Paramedic Practice: The Changing Patient Profile in Urgent, Emergency and Critical Care
2. Professional and Ethical Issues
3. Decision-making Theory: Dilemmas and Conundrums
4. Inclusive Decision Making
5. The Evolution of the Paramedic as a Critical Thinker
6. The Garden Gate Test: Putting Decision-making Theory into Practice
7. Refining and Improving the Application of Decision Making in Practice
8. Case-based Discussion (Case Studies, Reflection, Action Learning)