Laura Wirth

Paramedic | Manager | Staff Excellence Award Finalist

[Laura Wirth @LauraCWirth]

@carltonshrink So true! So much that could be improved

[Laura Wirth @LauraCWirth]

>60% of #paramedics intend on leaving their clinical role within the next decade.

🔎 Australasian Paramedicine Workforce Survey: comparative analysis of the three year study.

[Laura Wirth @LauraCWirth]

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[Laura Wirth @LauraCWirth]

A trend continues to display gender segregation in the workforce, where males dominate management roles and graduates entering the workforce are disproportionally female. This may point to exclusion that occurs over the course of careers, being particularly pronounced for females

[Laura Wirth @LauraCWirth]

https://t.co/oHq6wjOJRB

[ParamedProf is at paramedprof.bsky.social @ParamedProf]

@DrLouReynolds @agwalker01 @alan_eade @DuncanMcConnel1 @almclachlan1 @DrDavidNLong @lilylucent @tracyniks @NAEMT_ @Dr_AngMartin @RosalieBoyce @JacintaAllanMP @AckerJoe @MelissaSweetDr Sally Hasler says it well. Meanwhile I have been in contact with key policymakers Australia-wide to take up the recommendations of the Victorian report. The evidence base is overwhelming & there's no point in re-inventing the wheel. It's time for action.
https://t.co/bq2tvmJqKC

[Laura Wirth @LauraCWirth]

Australian women having a cardiac arrest are less likely to:
🩷 Have the arrest recognised in the 000 call,
🩷 Receive bystander CPR and an AED shock,
🩷 Receive ALS interventions and post-resuscitation care,
🩷 Survive to hospital discharge.

@ARC_resus @aus_roc

[The Age @theage]

‘Stop the show, there’s a man dying’: As three women struggled to save him, one item could have changed the outcome https://t.co/FPCtN21rPl

[reb @rebmasel]

Safety rules and regulations are written in blood. A thousand someones were mangled, maimed, crushed, ripped apart, sickened, killed before OSHA came. I can promise you that.

[Ambulance Victoria Research @VACAR_AV]

🚨🚨 20 years of cardiac arrest in Victoria in @theMJA: Utstein survival increased threefold bw 2003–2022 [but] the C19 pandemic was associated with a significant reduction in survival @emandrew1 @Ziad_Nehme1 @expensivecare @RosscoSalathiel @prof_cameron https://t.co/9lNTfd05SG

[Australasian College of Paramedicine (ACP) @ACParamedicine]

The College welcomes the @VicGovAu’s introduction today of a new parliamentary bill to enable the creation of Paramedic Practitioners in the state - an Australian first.

Read our full media release at https://t.co/B3jUHa9SBo

[Dr Janet Bray @Dr_JBray]

Not many get stolen and people get hurt in the panic of unlocking them: see our @Ilcor_org review on the impact of locked cabinets for AEDs @ARC_resus @GregPage_Yellow @HeartCPR @ERC_resus https://t.co/4mcIzL4fdj

[Laura Wirth @LauraCWirth]

Congratulations to these good blokes, Dr
@Buck_Reed and Dr Scott Stewart for becoming Fellows with the College - well deserved after your decades of dedication to #paramedicine
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[Laura Wirth @LauraCWirth]

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[Laura Wirth @LauraCWirth]

The Australasian Paramedic Workforce Survey showed a great desire for flexibility in the workplace; a reduction in time pressures.

Also, 34% of paramedics now work outside of a jurisdictional ambulance service!

#ACPIC24

[Findlay Ferguson @Findlaybf]

This highlights perfectly what paramedics and @VicAmboUnion are trying to achieve, an EBA that delivers conditions to improve work life balance conducive of a family. It also highlights that if not, we will leave @JacintaAllanMP #springst #ambosdeservealifetoo

[Laura Wirth @LauraCWirth]

@ParamedProf @DrLouReynolds Thank you for bringing this to mind: as women, we are unfortunately less likely to receive bystander CPR…

[Laura Wirth @LauraCWirth]

Thank you @DrLouReynolds for shining a light on the gender pain gap 🙏🏻

“Being your own advocate takes a toll.”

#ACPIC24

[ParamedProf is at paramedprof.bsky.social @ParamedProf]

@LauraCWirth @DrLouReynolds Great work.
It's disappointing to see the concerns go even further and beyond pain. Sex Disparities in Quality of EMS Resuscitation in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.
https://t.co/WPWVtmWbz2

[Laura Wirth @LauraCWirth]

@mhnparamedic @Lisa_Hobbs_ Thank you for sharing. I also found the same with many of my ambulance colleagues, being told by their doctors they were surprisingly young to be facing infertility.

[Laura Wirth @LauraCWirth]

Menstrual cycle disorders are 14.43% higher in paramedics than the Australian average.
29% of respondents used hormonal contraception to make it easier to work in the paramedic environment.
Thank you @Lisa_Hobbs_ for contextualising working conditions.
#ACPIC24

[hannah @mhnparamedic]

@LauraCWirth @Lisa_Hobbs_ Totally anecdotal but I also find that fertility problems are a lot higher in paramedic friends than nursing and non medical friends all of similar demographics.