This updated and expanded third edition contains all the essential information to help you apply decision making to your clinical role as a healthcare professional. Chapters have been brought in line with the latest guidance
and developments as the paramedic profession has evolved, emphasising the importance and complexities of critical thinking and decision making relevant to all practice settings. The new edition also includes aspects
of professionalism, understanding why things go wrong, and clinical leadership, as well as an additional chapter on inclusive decision making.
Key features include:
A comprehensive overview of decision-making theory and
how it applies to the paramedic role
Updated case studies chapter
Practice tips and checklists
Evidence-based and up-to-date with latest guidance
Ethical and professional considerations within paramedic practice
This book will be essential reading for student paramedics as well as qualified paramedics, ambulance clinicians, and wider healthcare professional groups undertaking continuous professional development. The book will support healthcare professionals interested in the theory and practice of decision-making in clinical practice.
Paramedic Practice: The Changing Patient Profile in Urgent, Emergency
and Critical Care
Professional and Ethical Issues
Decision-making Theory: Dilemmas and Conundrums
Inclusive Decision Making
The Evolution of the Paramedic as a Critical Thinker
The Garden Gate Test: Putting Decision-making Theory into Practice
Refining and Improving the Application of Decision Making in Practice
Case-based Discussion (Case Studies, Reflection, Action Learning)
Andy Collen
DipHE MSc DipUMC FCPara
Andy is currently a Consultant Paramedic at South East Coast Ambulance Service, co-leading on the Trusts urgent care specialist/advanced paramedic practice programmes, professional standards and scope of practice. He has recently finished a secondment at the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch as a National Investigator. Andy is also a Clinical Ambassador at the Clinical Human Factors Group.
Andy is the Medicines and Prescribing Project Lead for the College of Paramedics, having worked alongside NHS England on independent prescribing for advanced paramedics, as well as other projects, such as the review of paramedic medicines exemptions. He has contributed to the Colleges published documents relating to medicines, and has prepared Practice Guidance for Prescribers, Implementation Guidance for Prescribing and Practice Guidance for Exemptions.
Andy has written and contributed to several publications relating to paramedic practice, such as Decision Making in Paramedic Practice, and is a visiting senior lecturer at the University of Surrey.
