Early Career Newly Qualified Paramedics
Date: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
When paramedics first receive their HCPC registration and become the autonomous clinicians they have been training years for, how do they put that education and training into action? Paramedic Joe Copson will offer transitional theories relating to early-career paramedics, and panel guests Abigail Geoghan, Laura-Anne Robins, and Michelle Corbett will talk about their own transitions, including professional identify and putting learning into practice, in their very differing fields of practice.
New Paramedic Transition to Practice: A Contextually Dependent Phenomena?
This session will explore the complex experience of transition to professional practice, through a theoretical lens, and from the perspectives of paramedics who have recently transitioned in to varying areas of work. The outcomes for the session are: To gain insights into the experience of TTP; To understand how the development of the profession has influenced the way in which we think about TTP; and, to explore transition to practice across contexts and consider how theoretical perspectives can help us to understand this.
Joe Copson, PhD Student/Lecturer in Paramedic Science, University of Hertfordshire/University of East Anglia
Abigail Geoghan, Paramedic, West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust
Laura-Anne Robins, Newly Qualified Paramedic, Salus Medical Services
Michelle Corbett