Hello! I had considered studying paramedics at uni (ACU, I ended up going with midwifery) and I echo the comments of everything applauding you for how hard you + others ambos work/have worked.
One for me I guess from someone who deals with emergency scenarios often (obviously at a DRASTICALLY different level to what you would have experienced) I want to know if you found your coping mechanisms kind of.. subconsciously and slowly broke down?
Idk if that makes sense, but some of my co workers comment on the pragmatic way I deal with death and trauma by completely removing myself emotionally, and I am worried that as the demands in health care just continue to ramp up w/ short staffing, shit pay, expectations beyond our means etc. if I will begin to slowly lose these coping mechanisms, or if the past trauma of what I have seen will one day hit me in the face.
Obviously that is totally unanswerable, but I would love to hear your perspective on coping in traumatic situations when it’s your 9-5 (or… 0700-1900 ha)
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Hello! I had considered studying paramedics at uni (ACU, I ended up going with midwifery) and I echo the comments of everything applauding you for how hard you + others ambos work/have worked.
One for me I guess from someone who deals with emergency scenarios often (obviously at a DRASTICALLY different level to what you would have experienced) I want to know if you found your coping mechanisms kind of.. subconsciously and slowly broke down? Idk if that makes sense, but some of my co workers comment on the pragmatic way I deal with death and trauma by completely removing myself emotionally, and I am worried that as the demands in health care just continue to ramp up w/ short staffing, shit pay, expectations beyond our means etc. if I will begin to slowly lose these coping mechanisms, or if the past trauma of what I have seen will one day hit me in the face.
Obviously that is totally unanswerable, but I would love to hear your perspective on coping in traumatic situations when it’s your 9-5 (or… 0700-1900 ha)
:)
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