Paramedic academics in Australia and New Zealand: The 'no man's land' of professional identity.

Those transitioning from practice to academia can struggle with the perception that they might lose their hard-won and deeply-held professional identity, while grappling with the difficulty of creating an academic identity. This is a common experience for those entering universities with strong clinical identities. Paramedics, as members of an emerging health profession, share these challenges with nursing and allied health professionals.

Exploring and Improving Student Engagement in an Accelerated Undergraduate Nursing Program through a Mentoring Partnership: An Action Research Study.

This Participatory Action Research (PAR) project aimed to engage students from an accelerated 'fast track' nursing program in a mentoring collaboration, using an interdisciplinary partnership intervention with a group of academics. Student participants represented the disciplines of nursing and paramedicine with a high proportion of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) students. Nine student mentors were recruited and paired with academics for a three-month 'mentorship partnership' intervention.

The use and limits of eye-tracking in high-fidelity clinical scenarios: A pilot study.

Aim: To explore the potential of mobile eye-tracking to identify healthcare students' area of visual interest and its relationship to performance ratings.

Background: Eye-tracking identifies an individual's visual attention focus, and has been used as a training technique in medicine and in nursing. In this study participants wore a point of view (PoV) camera within a spectacle frame during simulation education experiences.

Developing situation awareness amongst nursing and paramedicine students utilizing eye tracking technology and video debriefing techniques: a proof of concept paper.

Objective: The aims of this quasi-experimental before-and-after study were to first determine whether the use of eye tracking technology combined with video debriefing techniques has the potential to improve the quality of feedback and enhance situation awareness (SA) in simulated settings and second to determine students' satisfaction towards simulated learning.

Methods: Nursing and paramedicine students from three universities participated in three 8-minute simulation scenarios of acutely deteriorating patients. Eye tracking glasses video recorded the scenarios and tracked right eye movement.

A cross-sectional study of paramedics' readiness for interprofessional learning and cooperation: results from five universities.

Introduction: Healthcare systems are evolving to feature the promotion of interprofessional practice more prominently. The development of successful and functional interprofessional practice is best achieved through interprofessional learning. Given that most paramedic programmes take an isolative uni-professional educational approach to their healthcare undergraduate courses, serious questions must be raised as to whether students are being adequately prepared for the interprofessional healthcare workplace.

Use of mechanical ventilation protocols in intensive care units: a survey of current practice.

Introduction: Mechanical ventilation protocols for treating intensive care unit (ICU) patients are often recommended to improve process of care and outcomes, but their composition may be variable and penetration into clinical practice may be incomplete. We sought to ascertain ICU and hospital characteristics associated with adoption of mechanical ventilation (MV) protocols in Ontario, Canada.

Methods: We surveyed respiratory therapy leaders in all 97 Ontario hospitals capable of providing MV in an ICU.

Achy breaky makey wakey heart? A randomised crossover trial of musical prompts.

Objective: Compared with no music (NM), does listening to 'Achy breaky heart' (ABH) or 'Disco science' (DS) increase the proportion of prehospital professionals delivering chest compressions at 2010 guideline-compliant rates of 100-120 bpm and 50-60 mm depths?

Methods: A randomised crossover trial recruiting at an Australian ambulance conference. Volunteers performed three 1-min sequences of continuous chest compressions on a manikin accompanied by NM, repeated choruses of ABH and DS, prerandomised for order.

Results: 37 of 74 participants were men; median age 37 years; 61% were paramedics, 20% students and 19% other health professionals.