Pre-hospital psychosocial care: changing attitudes

摘要: Holistic care is often a term widely associated with mental health professions, self help and alternative therapies, wrongly deemed irrelevant by those working in the pre-hospital arena. The paradigm of an individual being much more than just skin bone holding itself together has gained increasing emphasis over recent decades medicine, nursing, now paramedicine. This article reviews current literature focuses on concept paramedics exploring not traditional physical needs their patients but also psychological sociological. It further explores drive to change attitudes held practitioners that holistic as meaningless. By distancing ourselves profession from outdated perception paramedicine merely emergency transportation service, we can thus expand constraints biomedical models unscheduled appreciate importance biopsychosocia...