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Standing Orders, Countersign, Must and Should, Scope of practice
1. These CPGs incorporate standing orders and personnel are required to adhere to them.
2. Use of these standing orders does not require the Medical Director to countersign each use. However, use will be subject to the audit process within St John and Wellington Free Ambulance.
3. The words "must" and "should”appear throughout the CPGs. The word "must" means that personnel are always required to follow this instruction. The word "should" means that personnel are required to follow the instruction unless there is a good clinical reason not to.
4. Some personnel have an expanded delegated scope of practice, for example personnel involved in providing urgent community care. Such personnel are provided with additional CPGs which supersede these CPGs in specific circumstances.