SOCIAL SKILLS FOR PARAMEDICS IN SLOVAKIA

• Authors: Kaššaiová Zuzana
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the past, patient safety has attracted attention. However, little of it has been focused on the social skills necessary for paramedics. The aim of this article is to both highlight this deficiency, as well as the importance of examining such social skills which are necessary for crews in the emergency medical services. In this review, we present different terms described in the literature, and also the two most prevalent approaches: a non-technical skills approach and a competency approach. The non-technical skills approach has its origin in aviation. Flin et al. (2003) defined non-technical skills as the cognitive and social skills that complement technical skills, and contribute to safe and efficient task performance. The competency approach defines competencies as knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics or as a cluster of two or more these attributes (Marrelli, Tondora, & Hoge, 2005). Each competency is composed of behavioural indicators – specific descriptions of effective behaviour (Calhoun et al., 2008). In this article, we discuss the differences and similarities of both approaches and we focus on their critique.

Keywords

EN

SOCIAL SKILLS; COMPETENCIES; NON-TECHNICAL SKILLS; PARAMEDICS

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Social Sciences
• Journal: Človek a spoločnosť. Internetový časopis pre pôvodné teoretické a výskumné štúdie z oblasti spoločenských vied
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 29 – 42

Contributors

author

Kaššaiová Zuzana

• Institute of Experimental Psychology, Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

http://doi.org/10.31577/cas.2020.02.572