Helen Brooker

Emergency Department Senior Sister at QE 🌍🏨💛📖✈️🍺🌻🎓

[Helen Brooker @Hels__x]

Finished my PGDiploma with a merit 🙌

[Helen Brooker @Hels__x]

Happy Halloween 🎃 👻

[NUH Education @NUHEDUCATION]

That's a wrap on our 3-day European Trauma Course!

A big thank you to all the students and faculty; we hope you enjoyed the course.

#ETCnottingham @ETC_Org

[Helen Brooker @Hels__x]

Passed @ETC_Org 😍

[Helen Brooker @Hels__x]

If someone was hit with a spade it wouldn’t be called gardening #violenceagainstwomen

[Rachel Edwards @rachelgemma90]

Thinking & praying for my police & ambulance colleagues tonight in Birmingham, for all the folk working at Heartlands hospital & the people of Bordesley Green/Small Heath/Alum Rock - stay safe 🤎

[Helen Brooker @Hels__x]

@EmSianJohn Thanks Em ❤️

[Helen Brooker @Hels__x]

@rachelgemma90 I’m looking into it. Fingers crossed 🤞 I can finish up to PGDiploma but then need to find somewhere for the final part

[Helen Brooker @Hels__x]

@GrantMoss14 Yes sadly so I can only finish this year and not continue to next year

[Helen Brooker @Hels__x]

Why has no brand made a good pair of leggings that can hold a phone in the waistband and keys?!? I don’t want to wear a running vest or belt

[Helen Brooker @Hels__x]

@Niamh_F_Kielb Sending you caffeine filled best wishes ☕️

[Rachel Edwards @rachelgemma90]

May have just had one of the most soul-destroying shifts in A&E I’ve ever had. How is it ok that people are waiting on a chair for over 2 days for a hospital bed? The moral injury of delivering such poor care is just awful.

[Helen Brooker @Hels__x]

QE ED day two at #RCEMCPD

[Helen Brooker @Hels__x]

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[WM CARE Team @wmcareteam]

Today we did a simulation walk through of a resuscitative hysterotomy.

Two teams one for mum & one for baby.

LY

[Helen Brooker @Hels__x]

Been a while since ive managed a perfect week while on nights 🙌 only achieved because of two laps of the main corridor at 22:30 Wednesday 🤦🏼‍♀️

[Sean Monaghan @seanmmona2101]

Looking for someone experienced in youth justice to potentially support the development and delivery of an accredited course for youth workers. Anyone interested, please let me know.

And friends, pls rt to your people 👍

[Helen Brooker @Hels__x]

PGCert completed 🙌

[Karim Brohi @karimbrohi]

This week @London_Trauma System is publishing our Palliative and End of Life Care in Older Trauma Patients best practice guidance. Please share widely!

https://t.co/RARYXMhq2c

Key Principles:

All healthcare professionals involved in the care of older trauma patients have a responsibility towards the identification and management of an individual’s palliative and end of life care needs.

Palliative support for older trauma patients should be provided in conjunction with, and not separate to, best available curative/life-prolonging interventions

All older trauma patients should be looked up on local health records to see if they have an advance care pathway

Prognostication at the outset can be difficult. Where the appropriateness of clinical interventions is uncertain, ‘time limited trial of treatments’ should be considered, alongside patients wishes and preferences.

Effective communication between TUs and MTCs is essential and palliative care referral pathways should be in place within trauma networks to facilitate individualised decision-making.

Where specialist services at MTCs are requested to guide treatment options, senior TU clinicians managing the patient should factor in and convey relevant information about a patient’s medical background and personal values, to enable shared decision-making on prognosis, treatment intentions and the best location of ongoing care.

Thank you to @TraumaEMC and everyone involved in producing this guidance.

[Helen Brooker @Hels__x]

QE ED Happy New Year 🎉

[WM CARE Team @wmcareteam]

Big thanks to our volunteer team on duty tonight!

They've popped into QE hospital to say hello to fellow CARE Team volunteers who are on shift at the hospital

L-R: Vicki, Becky, Jenny, Suzi, Roxy & Helen

#HappyNewYear
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