Emergency Care Practitioners are advanced paramedic practitioners working autonomously within the community, using their enhanced clinical assessment and treatment skills to provide first point of contact for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems relating to:
Minor illness or injury
chest pains
abdominal pains
headaches
and other acute presentations within their competence.
They practice at an advanced level having the capability to make sound judgements in the absence of full information and to manage varying degrees of risk when there are complex, competing or ambiguous information or uncertainty.