Nationally ACAP has restructured it membership
levels and reviewed its membership criteria. This means that
everyone with an interest or involvement in pre-hospital care can
now join ACAP at an appropriate level. ACAP membership is open to
all those who work in the pre-hospital care field. This can include:
Professional Ambulance Officers
Honorary Ambulance Officers
Members of the Armed Services who have an
involvement in pre-hospital care (including medics, nurses,
doctors etc)
Members of St John Ambulance
Member of Surf Life Saving Australia
Other people with an involvement in
pre-hospital care.
Once a member you have a varied range of
opportunities opened to you. These include:
Networking with professionals, who treat
patients every day
Availability to undertake professional
development at member rates (CEP)
Links with other Australian Colleges and
access to their courses (partnerships)
Click
here to download
an ACAP (NSW) membership form.
ACAP
Publications
Response
ACAP publishes
Response
magazine. A quarterly journal which contains up to date news of
the ACAP world, current events, conference details and articles of
interest to the pre-hospital professional. ACAP (NSW) encourages it
members to submit articles of interest to the magazine. If you have
an article which you think may be suitable please contact the
editor, Margaret Bertling at
editor@acap.org.au.
eJEPHC
Nationally ACAP has also recently launched the
exciting 'eJournal of Emergency
Primary Health Care' (JEPHC), a peer reviewed e-journal
available internationally via the internet. The aim of the JEPHC is
to advance and promote the science and the art of pre-hospital care
research, education, clinical practice, policy and service delivery,
and to provide a forum to respond to the professional interests of
the multidisciplinary emergency primary health care community.
