Talk:Paramedics in Australia

National applicability
This page has far too many overly-assuming statements. Given the lack of national standards, there needs to be a lot fewer "always" statements and a lot more qualifications. You can't make statements about "minimum standards" without them being National, unless you want to site the specific states individually or collectively, and qualify that this does not apply to private companies or individuals.

Also, I notice a lot of the references for these sweeping statements are form individual state webpages and don't actually support the statement being made about this being the rule nation wide. In fact, one reference is to Colac Ambulance's individual branch webpage (a small town in Victoria) making the assumption that this applies Nationwide!!Monobeg (talk) 15:18, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

It may be worth splitting the sections up into an overall summary of the landscape nationwide (which can include topics such as national registration), followed by a section for each state/territory summarising the ambulance service(s) for that state, their general qualifications, and maybe operations, with a 'Main article' link to the specific page of that ambulance service. Activatedclone (talk) 15:03, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

About
About Paramedics in Australia:

the Qaulifictions I noticed are

Patient Transport Officer: Certificate III They can do non-emergency transport and continue existing oxygen therapy. Basic Life support & Auto Difib. As of 2016, their scope has increased. Also surprised there is not more education on the private ambulance service doing 000 calls dispatched through the ESTA referral service.

First Responder: Certificate IV They are mainly volunteers who are a stop-gap before paid paramedics arrive. They can continue oxygen therapy and penthrane (oral pain killer). Basic Life support & Auto Difib.

Ambulance Paramedic: Diploma Basic paramedic. Can administer oxygen therapy and various other drugs (8 in total) either orally or intra-muscular. Intermediate Life support. Ability to manually difib and basic cardiac recognition.

Ambulance Paramedic - Advanced Life Support: Either Diploma now Degree. Back-bone of paramedics. Can administer oxygen therapy and various other drugs (15 in total) either orally, intra-muscular and. Intermediate Life support. Manual Difib. Cardiac Recognition. and some other stuff.

Ambulance Paramedic - Intensive Care: Even more then ALS.

objective?
This quote at the beginning of the page doesn't seem very objective: Unfortunately in Australia use of the term "paramedic" is not restricted, registered or licensed.

Unfortunate? To whom? Seems like an opinion to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.169.44.192 (talk) 13:19, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Quick notes

 * The last two sections want a reference, if one can be found.
 * I haven't actually clicked any of the links in ==External links==, but if their descriptions are accurate, then probably none of them comply with WP:EL. Wikipedia is not a web directory.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * The last two sections now have references. The External links have been removed. Emrgmgmtca (talk) 12:17, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

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