Cheryl Cameron

Canadian Virtual Hospice / Monash University

Paramedics are frequently present at the death of patients and are in a position to provide grief support to family members who are suddenly bereaved, but existing education and system resources have failed to provide paramedics with the necessary tools to do so. Although the literature emphasizes the importance of providing grief training from ini...

The Career Framework for Paramedics provides all paramedic stakeholders guidance and clarity on the roles and abilities of paramedics in Canada. The framework promotes paramedicine as a career option for a wide range of individuals as well as giving a clear sense of the ways in which to progress throughout a career, including degree level education...

Paramedic practice requires highly educated, skilled, compassionate, and professional paramedics, which the profession strives to produce by continuously evolving education and professional requirements. However, the portrayal of paramedics in mass media has not evolved to match, and indeed the profession itself is complicit in some of these inaccu...

The Paramedics and Palliative Care: Bringing Vital Services to Canadians change package provides core principles and elements required to develop and implement a palliative approach to care for paramedic services. It brings together the experiences and learnings from 10 teams across nine provinces and territories who have successfully implemented t...

Introduction: Paramedic practice is highly variable, occurs in diverse contexts, and involves the assessment and management of a range of presentations of varying acuity across the lifespan. As a result, attempts to define paramedic practice have been challenging and incomplete. This has led to inaccurate or under-representations of practice that c...

This tool guides the assessment of community health and social needs, as well as resource and workforce capacity when developing community paramedicine programs.

Paramedics and Palliative Care is an example of a promising practice (“pilot”) that underwent successful spread and scale across Canada. Through the support of two pan-Canadian health organizations and concurrent evolution of the profession of paramedicine, this innovation has become integrated into practice. Evaluation of the innovation sites show...

Paramedicine is a domain of practice and health profession that specialises in the provision of health and social care across a range of settings including, but not limited to, emergency and primary care. Paramedics work in a variety of clinical settings such as paramedics services, hospitals, and clinics, in the community as well as non-clinical r...

Objective Based on programs implemented in 2011–2013 in three Canadian provinces to improve the support paramedics provide to people receiving palliative care, the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer and Healthcare Excellence Canada provided support and funding from 2018 to 2022 to spread this approach in Canada. The study objectives were to conduc...

Introduction: Paramedic practice is highly variable, occurs in diverse contexts, and involves the assessment and management of a range of presentations of varying acuity across the lifespan. As a result, attempts to define paramedic practice have been challenging and incomplete. This has led to inaccurate or under-representations of practice that...

IntroductionParamedicine is a domain of practice and health profession that specialises in the provision of health and social care across a range of settings including, but not limited to, emergency and primary care. Paramedics work in a variety of clinical settings such as paramedics services, hospitals, and clinics, in the community as well as no...

This chapter seeks to demystify and dispel your anxiety related to philosophical perspectives by providing you with accessible descriptions and encouraging you to take time to delve into and grapple with these concepts. There is no pattern of where you necessarily ‘sit’ or ‘should sit’ on the spectrum of paradigms. Much like political views, you ma...

Background: Handover to the trauma team is crucial to trauma care. The emergency medical services (EMS) report must be concise, contain key details, and be time-limited. Effective handover is difficult, often occurring between unfamiliar teams, in chaotic environments, and without standardization. We aimed to evaluate handover formats in compariso...

PAC has partnered with the CSA Group to manage the renewal of the existing National Occupational Competency Profile (NOCP) and incorporate it into a new standard following accredited processes of the Standards Council of Canada – the National Occupational Standard for Paramedics (NOSP). In this article we will provide a further update on the develo...

Background Healthcare systems, practitioners and communities have experienced momentous change and strain because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although paramedics are an essential component of the public health emergency response, the literature has focused primarily on the views of physicians, nurses and hospital administrators. Aims This research s...

PAC has partnered with the CSA Group to manage the renewal of the existing National Occupational Competency Profile (NOCP) and incorporate it into a new standard following accredited processes of the Standards Council of Canada – the National Occupational Standard for Paramedics (NOSP). Following on from our earlier update in March, in this article...

The COVID-19 outbreak offered a unique opportunity to capture the experiences of front-line practitioners during substantial and rapid changes to their daily work, including workplace policy, protocols, environment, and culture, as well as changes to their overall professional role in the healthcare system. Our team of paramedic researchers collect...

Background Paramedics are experiencing numerous policy and guideline changes in addition to facing enhanced risk of personal exposure during the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 outbreak offers an opportunity to capture the experiences of paramedics during substantial and rapid changes to workplace policy, guidelines, and professional roles in the h...

Background Paramedics are experiencing numerous policy and protocol changes in addition to facing enhanced risk of personal exposure during the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 outbreak offers an opportunity to capture the experiences of paramedics during substantial and rapid changes to workplace policy, protocols, and professional roles in the hea...

Introduction Paramedics are frequently present at the death of patients and are in a position to provide grief support to family members who are suddenly bereaved, but existing education and system resources have failed to provide paramedics with the necessary tools to do so. Although the literature emphasizes the importance of providing grief trai...

A national collaborative has been launched in Canada to spread and scale up the Paramedics Providing Palliative Care model. This builds on the knowledge that paramedics in the 9-1-1 (emergency/unscheduled) and scheduled models of care are both historically and currently asked by the public to provide urgent symptom relief within the context of a pa...

Paramedics are frequently present at the death of patients and are in a position to provide grief support to family members who are suddenly bereaved, but existing education and system resources have failed to provide paramedics with the necessary tools to do so. Although the literature emphasizes the importance of providing grief training from ini...

This study encompasses both professional and personal elements surrounding practitioner experiences throughout the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak. The pandemic provided a unique opportunity to capture the experiences of paramedics during substantial and rapid changes to their daily work, including: workplace policy, protocols, environment and...

p> Introduction This study sought to begin to define the current understanding of the term mentor within the prehospital environment (emergency medical services or EMS) as described by nomination letters written by mentees for a newly launched prehospital mentor award. Methods The John Ross Paramedic Mentor Award was created in the fall of 20...

Palliative and end-of-life patients in their homes are at risk of developing symptom crises requiring urgent care. The usual care for these patients involves transport to an Emergency Department (ED) despite the preference of most palliative patients to stay home. The objective of this initiative was to develop an innovative strategy to provide col...