Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen

Charles Sturt University · School of Biomedical Sciences

The reality of paramedicine can cause students emotional distress, especially if this tests their values or beliefs. Therefore, educating students to be resilient and prepared for unpredictable, distressing events should be considered. The need to increase professional longevity in paramedicine has shifted employers' focus from road readiness to ro...

Women's voices had no place in the Third Reich, and the Christian churches agreed: a woman's place was in the kitchen. After the war, women's voices frankly discussed the churches' shame. Some Christians had colluded, others stood silently by, and some of those who resisted the persecution of Jewish converts did not fully understand the injustice a...

Women’s voices had no place in the Third Reich, and the Christian churches agreed: a woman’s place was in the kitchen. After the war, women’s voices frankly discussed the churches’ shame. Some Christians had colluded, others stood silently by, and some of those who resisted the persecution of Jewish converts did not fully understand the injustice a...

The reality of paramedicine can cause students emotional distress, especially if this tests their values or beliefs. Therefore, educating students to be resilient and prepared for unpredictable, distressing events should be considered. The need to increase professional longevity in paramedicine has shifted employers' focus from road readiness to ro...

Introduction: Recent literature has explored the health and social implications of industrial workers who are involved in a variety of long-distance commute (LDC) work arrangements including fly-in, fly-out; bus-in, bus-out; and drive-in, drive-out. However, the role of an industrial health worker in caring for this special population of workers i...

p> Introduction This study reports on a subset of findings from a recent doctoral study by the first author, which explored the lived experience of being a paramedic preceptor to novice paramedics in their first year of on-road practice. Methods A qualitative methodology underpinned by Gadamerian hermeneutics was chosen for this study. Semi-stru...

In mid-Victorian times the Mormon Church flourished in the English market town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Hundreds of poor families willingly abandoned everything familiar to make perilous Atlantic crossings to pioneer an American Zion. Although young people initially led the emigration, they were soon joined by parents and siblings whose sea p...

The need to enhance the teaching of the “soft skills” in paramedic teaching programs was made clear at the end of a year-long international research project involving 11 universities in 2009 (Howie-Willis, 2008; Willis, O’Meara, Lazarsfeld Jensen, & McCarthy, 2009; Willis, Williams, Brightwell, O’Meara, & Pointon, 2010). Qualitative data from inter...

A cultural shift in ambulance services has improved the experience of university-educated paramedics going on-road for the first time in New South Wales. In the “bad old days”, graduate paramedics reported routine rites of initiation, including barbed humour and contempt for skills gained in a university setting. Those educated in the on-road vocat...

Australian natural resource exploration and production companies are employing paramedics to provide emergency medical response, primary health care, injury prevention, and health promotion services in remote locations nationally and internationally. Although Australian paramedic practice has steadily evolved to include increasingly complex medical...

Abstract Objectives: This project aimed to find ways of staging and evaluating simulations as a tool of Interprofessional Education. A series of scripted paediatric emergencies was used to create an intense learning environment to explore knowledge exchange and shared learning between GP registrars and paramedics. Although simulation is a familiar...

This autoethnographic study integrates Foucault ’ s genealogical approach to explore disability, notably deafness and blindness, from historical, social, and personal perspectives. Disability as a modern institution is defined through nuances of language and silence so that power constructs are hidden and continue to evolve through social collusion...

Undergraduate paramedics studying health sociology routinely reported that they could not see the relevance of a topic judiciously added to the curriculum by Australian universities ten years ago: spirituality. The topic aimed to help students better serve their patients through an understanding of attitudes, reactions and subtle influences on heal...

English music halls were facing ruin as they were persecuted through the licensing courts at the hands of evangelical Christian fanatics in the fin de siecle. It was difficult for predominantly Jewish theatrical entrepreneurs to oppose popular morals. The long forgotten founder of Warner Brothers International, Dick Warner, used his personal charis...

Using the new simulation laboratory (SimLab) at Charles Sturt University, a model of clinical scenarios has been developed for GPs, GP registrars, paramedical students, nurses and nursing students to participate in educational integration. The focus of the project was to design and evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency in the use of simulation...

This book is about disenchantment with work through the loss of moral meaning. It explores the reasons Australian women do low-paid and stressful work in non-profit organisations to better understand the relationship between welfare reform, work place ecology and staff retention. Women who want to make a difference among children and their families...

Australian universities, the majority of paramedic undergraduates tend to come straight from school and many programs are unable to offer early or lengthy on-road placements. This was cited as a cause of the immaturity and poor interpersonal skills raised repeatedly in focus group discussions in a year-long study of paramedic education in Australia...

Overload : the role of work-volume escalation and micro-management of academic work patterns in loss of morale and collegiality at UWS : the way forward

The Paramedic education: developing depth through networks and evidence-based research was a collaboration between the nine universities that had undergraduate paramedic programs in 2006 and the Australian College of Ambulance Professionals (ACAP). The project proposal was first presented at the 2006 ACAP annual conference in Adelaide. A Steering C...