International Journal of Emergency Services: Volume 10 Issue 2

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Transcending adversity: resilience in volunteer firefighters

Leigh McCarley Blaney, David Wilde, Rowena Hill

The purpose of this paper is to present a theory of psychological resilience in volunteer firefighters.

Relevance of disaster awareness factors and evacuation experiment without emergency alarm: fire case study

Akbar Adhiutama, Rony Darmawan, Shimaditya Nuraeni, Noorhan Firdaus Pambudi, Nur Budi Mulyono

The lack of studies about the relevance of disaster awareness factors and disaster evacuation as a part of disaster responses especially for fire cases in an academic environment…

A new front line? Workforce development issues from an evolving fire service

Tom Simcock

Over the past twenty years, the Fire and Rescue Services (FRS) workforce in England has experienced significant developments as part of New Labour's modernisation agenda with the…

The psychometric properties of the professionalism at work questionnaire for paramedicine students

Brett Williams

In the past several decades, there has been rapid advancement and improvement in Australasian paramedicine education and clinical standards. These advancements have also seen…

Systematic incident command training and organisational competence

Katherine Lamb, Malcolm Farrow, Costa Olymbios, David Launder, Ian Greatbatch

The study aims to determine if the application of a systematic command training system (Effective Command) could influence the organisational competency profile, through the…

Perceptions of EMS leaders and supervisors on the challenges faced by female paramedics in Riyadh Saudi Arabia: a qualitative study

Abdullah Mohammed ALobaid, Cameron Gosling, Lisa McKenna, Brett Williams

Saudi female paramedics face many challenges in the current Saudi emergency medical service (EMS). This study aimed to investigate perceptions of EMS experts, leaders, managers…

The types and effects of feedback received by emergency ambulance staff: protocol for a systematic mixed studies review with narrative synthesis

Caitlin Wilson, Gillian Janes, Rebecca Lawton, Jonathan Benn

The primary aim of this systematic review is to identify, describe and synthesise the published literature on the types and effects of feedback received by emergency ambulance…

Profiling the New Zealand police physical appraisal test

Robin Marc Orr, Elisa Canetti, Jason Movshovich, Robert Lockie, Jay Dawes, Ben Schram

The aims of this study were to evaluate fitness levels in a cohort of police trainees and compare these results to other police trainees and the general population.

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Emotional self-efficacy and workplace psychological health in emergency dispatchers

Charlotte Huard, Andrée-Ann Deschênes, Charles-Antoine Rioux

The main purpose of this research is to establish the relationships between emotional self-efficacy and workplace psychological health for emergency dispatchers.

Cover of International Journal of Emergency Services

ISSN:

2047-0894

Online date, start – end:

2012

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Prof Paresh Wankhade
  • Prof Attila Hertelendy