Development of physical employment standards of specialist paramedic roles in the National Ambulance Resilience Unit (Naru)
| Autor: | Sam D. Blacker, Stephen D. Myers, Mark P. Rayson, Beverley J. Hale, Josh I. Osofa, Ella F. Walker, Andrew G. Siddall, Julianne Doherty, Tessa R. Flood |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Employment
Male Computer science Applied psychology Ambulances Allied Health Personnel Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Human Factors and Ergonomics Q1 Unit (housing) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Task Performance and Analysis Range (statistics) Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Safety Risk Reliability and Quality Resilience (network) Engineering (miscellaneous) 050107 human factors 05 social sciences QP 030210 environmental & occupational health Fitness test Job performance Physical Fitness Female Limited resources |
| Zdroj: | Applied ergonomics. 95 |
| ISSN: | 1872-9126 0003-6870 |
| Popis: | Aim: To develop evidence-based role-specific physical employment standards and tests for National Ambulance Resilience Unit (NARU) specialist paramedics.\ud \ud Methods: Sixty-two (53 men, 9 women) paramedics performed an array of (1) realistic reconstructions of critical job-tasks (criterion job performance); (2) simplified, easily-replicable simulations of those reconstructions and; (3) fitness tests that are portable and/or practicable to administer with limited resources or specialist equipment. Pearson’s correlations and ordinary least products regression were used to assess relationships between tasks and tests. Performance on reconstructions, subject-matter expert and participant ratings were combined to derive minimum acceptable job performance levels, which were used to determine cut-scores on appropriate correlated simulations and tests.\ud \ud Results: The majority of performance times were highly correlated with their respective simulations (range of r: 0.73-0.90), with the exception of those replicating water rescue (r range: 0.28-0.47). Regression compatibility intervals provided three cut-scores for each job-task on an appropriate simulation and fitness test.\ud \ud Conclusion: This study provides a varied and easily-implementable physical capability assessment for NARU personnel, empirically linked to job performance, with flexible options depending on organisational requirements. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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