Table 3
Factors relating to the ambulance clinical supervisor
| Ambulance clinical supervisor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Label | Attribute | Factor loadings | ||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Factor 1 | Awareness of evidence based practice | 0.901 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Core professional skills α = 0.9428 | Leadership, mentoring, and supervision | 0.851 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research, statistics, and information retrieval skills | 0.837 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| Underpinning knowledge in law and ethics | 0.818 | 0.364 | 0.000 | |
| Underpinning knowledge of biological sciences, including anatomy, physiology, and pathology | 0.799 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| An understanding of current issues, clinical governance and the role of others within the wider health economy | 0.754 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| Awareness of and regard for professional issues such as: autonomy, accountability, confidentiality, and a code of professional conduct | 0.736 | 0.446 | 0.000 | |
| Literate and numerate | 0.733 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| Skills and knowledge from recognised emergency care courses such as: prehospital trauma life support, advanced life support, prehospital paediatric life support | 0.723 | 0.000 | 0.326 | |
| A range of clinical skills to enable them to manage a range of common emergency conditions, for example; first aid, life support, defibrillation, airway management, drug administration | 0.712 | 0.339 | 0.000 | |
| Skills in clinical and personnel management | 0.712 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| Familiarity with emergency medical equipment and its operation | 0.595 | 0.586 | 0.000 | |
| Underpinning knowledge of common emergency conditions in adults and children | 0.587 | 0.385 | 0.000 | |
| Communication skills: written, verbal, and electronic | 0.461 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| Intellectual skills to enable the interpretation of clinical data, the implementation of clinical judgement and decision making, and the formulation of a diagnosis | 0.453 | 0.420 | 0.000 | |
| Factor 2 | Caring, empathic, and values life | 0.000 | 0.860 | 0.000 |
| Role model α = 0.948 | Patient centred | 0.000 | 0.846 | 0.000 |
| Non judgemental, non-discriminatory | 0.000 | 0.825 | 0.000 | |
| Ability to take a history and conduct patient assessment and examination of both adults and children | 0.406 | 0.810 | 0.000 | |
| Honest | 0.000 | 0.810 | 0.000 | |
| Common sense | 0.341 | 0.770 | 0.000 | |
| Mental health skills | 0.000 | 0.726 | 0.000 | |
| Professionalism | 0.485 | 0.715 | 0.000 | |
| Practical (pragmatic) | 0.359 | 0.685 | 0.000 | |
| Aware of and adherence to national and local guidelines and policies | 0.562 | 0.668 | 0.000 | |
| Physically fit for the role, manually dextrous with good hand eye coordination | 0.000 | 0.663 | 0.000 | |
| Role model for others | 0.000 | 0.614 | 0.304 | |
| Team player with ability to work alone | 0.414 | 0.521 | 0.000 | |
| Self aware, recognising personal responsibility and limitations | 0.508 | 0.511 | 0.475 | |
| Factor 3 Lifelong learning α = 0.8375 | Ability to learn, including the ability to use reflection and learn from experience | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.919 |
| Skills in teaching and presentation | 0.361 | 0.000 | 0.845 | |
| Commitment to self development | 0.485 | 0.326 | 0.702 | |
| Skills and awareness of manual handling and health and safety | 0.000 | 0.546 | 0.657 | |
| Skills and underpinning knowledge of advanced driving | 0.000 | 0.412 | 0.594 | |
| Familiarity with local operational area | 0.000 | 0.425 | 0.558 | |
| Brave | 0.000 | 0.389 | 0.448 | |
