Plans for 2025, catchup from the holidays and reintroduction for new listeners.

Part 2 of 2 discusses CPD (continued professional development) and [the well awaited] "wildest story as a paramedic".

Join me as I sit down with Victorian MICA flight paramedic, Cat Mackay. In this part 1 of 2 episode, we talk all things MICA application process, training and aspects to the job.

Part 2 to be released mid next week.

In part 2, George talks about her ebook 'Shift Work - a guide', discussing the acute and accumulative psychological and physiological effects of shift work.

TW: Mental health, PTSD

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I had the pleasure of interviewing George Mitchell, prior rural paramedic with the New South Wales Ambulance, and current naturopathic student. In part 1, she discusses her journey into paramedicine.

TW: Mental health, PTSD

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TW: Suicide, homicide, self harm, mental health

In part 2, Emily details her experience as a paramedic at an open-cut mine in Northern Queensland, the struggles the mining industry faces and her future career objectives.

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I interview one of my best mates, Emily Lydeamore-Walker, as she recounts her journey to become a mine-site paramedic in Northern Queensland. In part 1, she details her university experience and her London Ambulance Service Exchange program.

TW: Mental health, suicide, self harm.

This part 2 of 2 episode dives into the mental status assessment (MSA), sedation assessment tool (SAT) and emergency examination authorities (EEA).

TW: Mental health, suicide, self harm.

In this episode, we do a deep dive into the methods of de-escalation, and also the types of questions to ask a mental health patient.

YIKES! What's worse than having a UTI? Nothing, I say!

This episode dives into a case and pathophysiology of a UTI.

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