The selection and preparation of paramedic preceptors in emergency medical services

In Emergency Medical Services, training programs for paramedics, providers of Advanced Life Support emergency care, include a field internship where students are partnered with a preceptor for training and evaluation before program completion; The purpose of this study was to determine if certain attributes could be used as predictors for preceptor success measured by a preceptor performance evaluation. The quantitative descriptive, correlation study was based on data gathered from paramedic preceptors in Clark County, Nevada in the spring of 1999. The sample (n = 66) was drawn through a consensus survey of every paramedic preceptor employed by a provider agency in the Las Vegas valley; The findings of the study provided the basis for the conclusion that Instructor training was the key predictor in the scores of the paramedic preceptor performance evaluation. Certification as an Emergency Medical Services Instructor was the only single attribute to demonstrate a statistically significant regression correlation at the .001 level of significance. Training in other emergency medicine content specific instructor courses contributed to the overall predictive power but was not statistically significant in itself; Other demographic attributes grouped under social, education, and clinical experience were not predictive of preceptor evaluation score at the .05 level of significance. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Leadership

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

1999

Author dc:creator

• Tilton, Brian James

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/1084

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-2083