Emergency Care Practitioner

Emergency Care Practitioner (ECP) are paramedics, nurses or other health professionals with additional training in injury assessment, diagnostic skills and advanced wound care. ECPs are based in the community and provide on the spot emergency treatment to patients, helping to relieve pressures on the emergency ambulance service and dealing with patients more effectively in their own home without transporting them to accident and emergency departments. Paramedics may become ECPs following successful completion of a BSc (Hons) in Emergency Care.

Emergency Care Practitioner scope is dependant of the individuals educational background and the organisations scope of practice afforded to the ECP.  Some of the treatment plans include:

Non traumatic falls, lower back pain,cold or flu symptoms, constipation, diarrhoea, paronychea, post operative wound problems, blocked urinary catheters, non traumatic epistaxis, Ottawa ankle rules, Ottawa knee injury, calf problems, pre-tibial laceration, pulled elbow (subluxation), mallet finger, wrist injury, humerus, clavicle, gamekeepers thumb, corneal abrasions, corneal foreign body, arc eye, sub tarsal foreign body, chemical eye injuries, conjunctival foreign body, toothache, removal of foreign body (ear), removal of foreign body (nose), minor head injury, primary wound care, secondary wound care, ingested foreign body, bites & stings (insect/fish), burns, emotional or hysterical reaction, psychiatric problems, x-ray requests, Plaster of Paris, Blood and urine sample requests.