Australasian College of Paramedicine International Conference (ACPIC23)
ACPIC 2023 delivered a wide range of clinical and research sessions from experts and leaders in paramedicine. Hosted in Melbourne (September 2023) the program was designed to inspire, educate and broaden horizons.
Conference theme: Lead - Evolve - Impact
Patients’ experiences of non-conveyance following an Australian ambulance service paramedic response: A constructivist grounded theory exploration
Understanding patient experience contributes to quality, safe, and effective healthcare. This research explored the experience of patients who received an emergency ambulance response and paramedic-led healthcare that resulted in a decision for them to not attend a hospital ED. Constructivist Grounded Theory methods were used to generate and analyse data from semi-structured interviews with 21 participants who received paramedic-led healthcare from an Australian jurisdictional ambulance service between August 2020 and October 2021 that resulted in non-conveyance.
Biography: Robbie King
Robbie is a senior paramedic with 14-years experience in clinical and educational roles. He provides healthcare in the community responding on a Local-area Assessment and Referral Unit (LARU) for Queensland Ambulance Service. He is also a Phd candidate whose research interests aim to explore and understand the 'patient experience' of paramedic-led healthcare. Particularly during circumstances where people responded to by jurisdictional ambulance services have their needs better catered for by community-based services, rather than a hospital Emergency Department. Robbie advocates for inclusion of the patients’ voice to inform approaches to paramedic-led healthcare, and development of evidenced-based tools to measure outputs of that care.
Moderator: Dr Scott Devenish, Associate Professor and Discipline Lead, Paramedicine, Australian Catholic University
The College is the peak professional body representing and supporting paramedics and student paramedics across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand since 1973.
The College acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the traditional custodians of the land and sea in which we live and work, we recognise their continuing connection to land, sea and culture and pay our respects to Elders past, present and future.
The College acknowledges Māori as tangata whenua and Treaty of Waitangi partners in Aotearoa New Zealand.
