Factors relating to the ambulance technician
| Ambulance technician | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Label | Attribute | Factor loadings | ||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Factor 1 Core professional skills α = 0.9534 | 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 | 0.786 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Patient centred | 0.776 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| Physically fit for the role, manually dextrous, with good hand eye coordination | 0.767 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| Role model for others | 0.762 | 0.000 | 0.316 | |
| Ability to learn, including the ability to use reflection and learn from experience | 0.750 | 0.330 | 0.000 | |
| Commitment to self development | 0.748 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| Non-judgemental, non-discriminatory | 0.736 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| Literate and numerate | 0.729 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| Aware of and adherence to national and local guidelines and policies | 0.711 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| Professionalism | 0.710 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| Awareness of evidence based practice | 0.707 | 0.000 | 0.360 | |
| Communication skills: written, verbal, and electronic | 0.695 | 0.382 | 0.000 | |
| Caring, empathic, and values life | 0.690 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| Underpinning knowledge in law and ethics | 0.686 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| Underpinning knowledge of common emergency conditions in adults and children | 0.682 | 0.391 | 0.000 | |
| Awareness of and regard for professional issues such as: autonomy, accountability, confidentiality and a code of professional conduct | 0.680 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| Familiarity with emergency medical equipment and its operation | 0.670 | 0.523 | 0.000 | |
| Self aware, recognising personal responsibility and limitations | 0.666 | 0.387 | 0.000 | |
| Practical | 0.597 | 0.466 | 0.000 | |
| An understanding of current issues, clinical governance and the role of others within the wider health economy | 0.549 | 0.000 | 0.401 | |
| Ability to take a history and conduct patient assessment and examination of both adults and children | 0.542 | 0.416 | 0.422 | |
| Skills and knowledge from recognised emergency care courses such as: prehospital trauma life support, advanced life support, prehospital paediatric life support | 0.501 | 0.000 | 0.410 | |
| Honest | 0.426 | 0.000 | 0.000 | |
| Factor 2 | Familiarity with local operational area | 0.000 | 0.816 | 0.000 |
| Individual and collaborative approaches to health and safety α = 0.8157 | Skills and underpinning knowledge of advanced driving | 0.000 | 0.727 | 0.000 |
| Skills and awareness of manual handling and health and safety | 0.448 | 0.670 | 0.000 | |
| Team player with ability to work alone | 0.000 | 0.618 | 0.525 | |
| Mental health skills | 0.355 | 0.586 | 0.000 | |
| Brave | 0.000 | 0.575 | 0.000 | |
| Common sense | 0.447 | 0.498 | 0.000 | |
| Factor 3 | Leadership, mentoring, and supervision | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.796 |
| Management of self and clinical situations α = 0.8363 | Skills in clinical and personnel management | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.752 |
| Research, statistics, and information retrieval skills | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.752 | |
| Skills in teaching and presentation | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.691 | |
| Intellectual skills to enable the interpretation of clinical data, the implementation of clinical judgement and decision making and the formulation of a diagnosis | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.685 | |
| Underpinning knowledge in biological sciences including anatomy, physiology, and pathology | 0.493 | 0.000 | 0.607 | |