Rebekah started her PHC nursing career in NZ as a grad nurse in a busy General Practice (GP). After completing a postgraduate certificate in primary health care, she moved to Melbourne and continued to work in GP land before moving to APNA in 2014. Rebekah is currently completing a Master of Public Health while managing APNA’s Transition to Practice Programs. Rebekah loves her floofie dog, food, coffee, tattoos, and pickleball!

Julie is the College Manager of Education and is a Registered Paramedic, nurse and clinical educator. She has worked across many sectors in paramedics and nursing including state ambulance service, primary health care, emergency, non-emergency, and private paramedic practice in Vic and NSW. She has been working in the fields of health and education for 25 years, 17 of those in paramedicine.

Julie has a special interest in education and holds Postgraduate qualifications in tertiary and higher education. She is currently undertaking Higher Degree Research (HDR) in paramedic education, investigating pathways to higher education and career extension.

Julie began working in primary health as a nurse, realising very quickly that her paramedic skill set provided a unique experience that added to the quality of care she could provide to patients. She has worked in primary healthcare for many years, taking lead roles in patient and clinical practice management. The acute emergency and trauma skills learned in the paramedic environment led to her working alongside specialist physicians assisting with surgical procedures and coordinating recovery and post surgical care. Julie is a strong advocate for collaborative healthcare and can see through her experience the contributions paramedics can make to multidisciplinary care.

Alecka is the Course Coordinator of the Master of Paramedic Practitioner course at Edith Cowan University and works as a Paramedic at a GP clinic in Perth, Western Australia. She is a long-suffering Melbourne Demons fan and proud ‘Mumma’ to Poppy (5 years) and Hamish (3 years), a career highlight and her greatest achievement so far. Despite expressing her concerns about research being a ‘waste of time’ as a M.A.S. graduate paramedic, she has since changed her tune and developed research interests in paramedic education and the roles for paramedics in primary health care in Australia/New Zealand. She has a Masters degree in Emergency Health and is currently undertaking her PhD and looks forward to dressing like a professor from Harry Potter when she graduates.

Shell is a Nurse Practitioner Intern and Community Paramedic working in a rural General Practice in the eastern Waikato of New Zealand. Her role is to provide an urgent and acute care stream for within practice hours and on call after hours for the wider region. Shell is part of the (insert ACP community Paramedicine working group name) and she is a member of the professional practice committee of the New Zealand college of primary health care nurses, she is the nursing advisor to the royal new Zealand college of urgent care and the founder and facilitator of the urgent care nurses network. She advocates for nurses working at the top of their scopes in primary healthcare and for community paramedics working outside of Ambulance services to improve access and equity of primary healthcare services.