My mother and father are both paramedics. Both of them have been ambulance workers for over twenty years, and my mother has been in the health care industry for many more years. They both have a lot to say about their jobs and their experiences. Not all good. I did some research, and I came to find that compared to the regular person, paramedics face higher levels of depression, anxiety, PTSD, organisational stress, and fatigue. This is because in their occupation they have to overcome shift work, long hours, repeated exposure to death, abuse and aggression, and a lot of responsibility,
Today, I don’t want to talk about the importance of recognising the hard work paramedics put in. I’m going to inform you lovely people of the main stresses and struggles ambulance workers go through nearly on a daily basis. And the solutions that must take place.
The major problem that has to be fixed is the shift work these people are put under. Firstly, their shifts are
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But you don’t have a clue on what to do to let this ambulance through. This causes stress and unsafe driving for the public and paramedics. People have been found not knowing what to do when an ambulance needs to get through. So, they begin to swerve around the road making the situation worse and more dangerous.
Recently in Sydney, a paramedic named Steven Tougher was stabbed to death while filling out paperwork in a carpark. This is evidence of the abuse paramedics go through with aggressive people. Even though Steven Tougher was not treating or even associating with the man who attacked him, he was still killed all because he was a paramedic. Abusive and aggressive patients are a daily struggle for paramedics. And, although they are trained to deal with these people, they are not provided enough security within their jobs to protect