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G'day all,
In Australasia we're working towards Paramedic registration under the applicable national health professional regulation schemes (AHPRA and the HPCAA respectively). This is already used in the UK, Ireland, South Africa, and I understand all of the USA and parts of Canada.
This will be revolutionary. It will transform ambulance personnel into a legislatively recognised health practitioner. Accountability will largely transfer from the employer to an independent authority which will set standards of registration and regulations for conduct, professional development, and discipline.
What this means amongst other things is ambulance personnel will be randomly audited for compliance with professional development requirements, personnel will be individually accountable for their clinical practice and the public can make a complaint and it won't go to the employer necessarily to resolve but can be referred to the regulating authority who can investigate and impose sanctions or cancel registration.
If you read the UK HCPC disciplinary outcomes they are very strict; for example have imposed severe sanctions or cancelled registration for substandard clinical practice or poor ethical or moral behaviour towards patients or colleagues. One of my friends is a nurse who was called before the Nursing Council to undergo a detailed investigation because somebody thought they were looking at inappropriate content on their work computer, they weren't but they still got put through the ringer and too bloody right I reckon as well.
There have been a small number of personnel who are opposed to registration in Australasia because they're not prepared to submit to the level of public and external accountability for professional standards. Many of these personnel are older, were vocationally trained and do not the now required university qualifications and will likely leave or retire rather than be registered.
How have you found it in the USA?
In Australasia we're working towards Paramedic registration under the applicable national health professional regulation schemes (AHPRA and the HPCAA respectively). This is already used in the UK, Ireland, South Africa, and I understand all of the USA and parts of Canada.
This will be revolutionary. It will transform ambulance personnel into a legislatively recognised health practitioner. Accountability will largely transfer from the employer to an independent authority which will set standards of registration and regulations for conduct, professional development, and discipline.
What this means amongst other things is ambulance personnel will be randomly audited for compliance with professional development requirements, personnel will be individually accountable for their clinical practice and the public can make a complaint and it won't go to the employer necessarily to resolve but can be referred to the regulating authority who can investigate and impose sanctions or cancel registration.
If you read the UK HCPC disciplinary outcomes they are very strict; for example have imposed severe sanctions or cancelled registration for substandard clinical practice or poor ethical or moral behaviour towards patients or colleagues. One of my friends is a nurse who was called before the Nursing Council to undergo a detailed investigation because somebody thought they were looking at inappropriate content on their work computer, they weren't but they still got put through the ringer and too bloody right I reckon as well.
There have been a small number of personnel who are opposed to registration in Australasia because they're not prepared to submit to the level of public and external accountability for professional standards. Many of these personnel are older, were vocationally trained and do not the now required university qualifications and will likely leave or retire rather than be registered.
How have you found it in the USA?