The ACP International Conference provides an unmatched opportunity for our members to learn from experts and leaders in paramedicine. ACPIC 2021 was delivered as a hybrid conference (online and face to face in the Sunshine Coast, QLD and Hobart, TAS) in November 2021.
Health professionals are required to use evidence to inform their clinical decision making. In the digital world when professionals and health consumers can access huge amounts of information on the internet, it is essential that practice is informed by appropriate evidence that meets rigorous standards of scientific inquiry. This session provides an overview of criteria than can be used to ascertain the validity and reliability of literature informing clinical decision making
Biography: Isabel Jamieson
Isabel Jamieson (RN, PHD, BN, MNurse(Melb), CertAT) is a principal nursing lecturer at the Ara Institute of Canterbury and a senior nursing lecturer at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Her areas of research include the healthcare workforce, models of clinical teaching and learning, nurses’ readiness to practice, the graduate nurse experience and career change. Her clinical background was perioperative nursing, surgical assisting, and infection control.
Session moderator: Stuart Cook
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.
