Joel Symonds talks us through humour in the prehospital care arena, when it is appropriate to use and when humour is not appropriate but perhaps most poignantly why it is important and its use in emotionally protecting responders and its role in mental resilience.
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Joel Symonds is an Advanced Practitioner in Pre-hospital Critical Care from Edinburgh. On leaving school he worked as a nanny, a pyrotechnician, a children’s actor and a civil servant. He joined the Ambulance Service in 2005 and was promptly told by a burned-out colleague – “The problem with joining the ambulance service is once you’ve become a paramedic there’s nowhere else to go”. Choosing to ignore this nihilism, Joel has spent his career exploring the opportunities available to staff with pre-hospital management skills. Since then, he has worked in international motor racing, desert search and rescue, hostile environment industrial health care, governance consultancy, education and research. He is regularly asked where he’ll be in five years’ time: he has no idea, but can’t wait to find out.
Joel has a special interest in human factors, interactions and experience within emergency care, believing that everything we do ultimately hinges on the patients, care providers and bystanders involved. Joel lives in Edinburgh with his family, plays geeky board games and emerged from the 2020 pandemic as a runner and baker. He’ll probably have found something different next week.
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