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Podcast: Pre-Hospital Care Podcast
Episode: Advanced Paramedic Practitioners in Urgent Care (APPUC) with Nikki and Andrew
Description: In this session Caroline Philips interviews two of the advanced paramedics in urgent care. The conversation includes; their role on a day to day basis, this structure of the scheme and how there time is spent. They also examine how previous pre-hospital roles (such as clinical advise, team leader/manager roles) have helped with the senior clinical role as an APPUC. Nikki and Andrew also catalogue the variety of patients that they see and the in-depth patient focussed history taking and nuanced risk/benefit analysis undertaken. They also discuss some of the skills that the scheme supports such as...