Graduate Paramedic

Code Black and Ambulance UK made paramedics look like flat-out resuscitations every shift. The reality is closer to a 23-year-old graduate paramedic in turn on a Friday night, pulling up to a fall in a nursing home, taking a full set of observations on a 90-year-old patient who wants to go back to bed. Becoming a paramedic in Australia takes a three-year Bachelor of Paramedicine from a university approved by the Paramedicine Board. After graduation, registration with AH-Pira. The title 'Paramedic' became legally protected on 1 December 2018. From that day, calling yourself a paramedic without AH-Pira registration became illegal. Ambulance graduates start with a six-week full-time induction at the Education Centre at Rossell in Sydney. From there comes a 12-month transition to practice programme on-road as a graduate paramedic in turn.