New South Wales

Ambulance Service Handbook - Primary Care

Paramedic

‘We provide the NSW public with the right care, at the right time and at the right place’

Written by;
ERMS Staff
 Date:
3/12/2019
Edited by:

This document is intended for all paramedics in the Aussie Adventures fiveM server only. It is not to be
distributed without permission from server staff.

Introduction

The following handbook is for you as a primary care paramedic to begin expanding your knowledge and
help build your career within the NSW Ambulance Service
 Table Of Contents

Advanced First Aid 3

Basic Drug Knowledge 3

Hospital Transfers 3

Rapid Response 4
 Advanced First Aid

Now you are a primary care paramedic you will be trained in advanced first aid. This is as close to pre
hospital care training as the NSW Ambulance Service can offer. From time to time you are going to be
called out to scenes where it could be a paper cut through to an attempted suisde and you need to be
prepared for everything.

While you were a recruit your training paramedic would've thought you almost everything they know,
Advanced first aid allows you to administer grade 1 medical drugs such as ‘the green whistle’ [Penthox],
morphine, Fentanyl, Ketamine or Penthrane. These are controlled drugs and shall they be administered you
should report to the use to your assistant operations manager. Along with this you will also have a high
understanding of the pain management clinical practise procedure.

Basic Drug Knowledge

As a paramedic you will come across members of the community that use drugs. It is crucial that you have
an understanding of common drugs and the side effects they have on a person. Drugs you will learn about
are;

Amphetamines (ICE, Crack, Speed, Uppers)

Cocaine (Coke, Crack, Flake, Rock)
Ecstasy (Speed, MDMA)
Inhalants (Rush, Huff, Gluey)
Marijuana (Dope, Weed, Grass, pot)

With this it will be part of a training session where we have the police assist as they have more ‘local’
knowledge on the drug, than the ERMS will organise a treatment plan a training session for them.

Hospital Transfers
One side of hospital care is transferring patients from hospital to hospital. This could be for any number
of reasons. When this is done, you must treat them the same way every patient is transported.
Another way you may transfer patients may be via HERMS. This is done via trained paramedics and for
serious cases only.

Rapid Response
Rapid Response is the next step to being recognised for promotion. Our extended care paramedics are
trained to arrive to a call quickly, Assess the situation and radio other responding units with updates and
instructions.

As part of our rapid response team you have access to our iload, colorado and once of rank you can also use
the commodore wagon. Our rapid response fleet is kitted out for more pre hospital care to assist in more
critical calls.

As a primary care paramedic you will be offered the rapid response training however will not be permitted
to work as a rapid response paramedic until you are an extended care paramedic.