Jack Kennedy @jackgkennedy Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

Because the NHS crisis is not a crisis of furniture.

John Redwood

@johnredwood

2 years

We hear how the NHS is short of beds. Why don’t managers put more in?

9K

601

5K

3

11

64

Last Seen Profiles

@ForeverScept

@saaabren

@choco_517

@harris_stavrou

@Kursat_kagan99

@montkba15

@Papuaviral1

@valesports_emea

@MaggieDaniel_14

@Digitaldex1

@IamAsimm7

@SafetyBlade_HS

@BinorRaja

@mana_shizu_god

@Vtukijan

@farhad55526050

@marc_beauregard

@TrueCzechCloud

@yinqi_xiaoxue

@frutiyitsss

@OfficialCoachO

@Ces061Granada

@MashuRespecter

@Maj_Hrbi0

@SSksyh55404

@obsidian4815

@APIC_Cordoba

@Ladygungun

@stw_pdg

@ALPHA_ezt

@Liandrid_lol

@cutepet2023

@edward_w97

@SHUWBB

@Trish41351600

@4WhomJBellTolls

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

A genuinely depressing day in admission avoidance today. 20 minutes to take a blood pressure. Why? An octogenarian wears 7 layers to keep warm that needs to come off to expose her upper arm. She can’t afford to heat her small 1 bed flat. Retired nurse who gave 50 yrs to the NHS

64

1K

4K

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

Trying to avoid a +ve PCR before Christmas whilst working in healthcare is some sport, eh?

71

278

3K

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

Me ranting to mum 4 weeks ago: “Work is pretty tough at the moment, all I want is a 2 month long nap followed by a Colonel Sanders” Today, Mum: “I’ve knitted you the Bernie Sanders that you wanted”.

20

42

893

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

On my way out, in the lobby, adverts for ‘heat banks’. Where the elderly can gather to keep warm. This country absolutely sickens me sometimes.

12

200

844

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

GP: No appts today, go to the pharmacy. Pharmacy: Can’t help, call 111 111: Sorry We can’t help we’re sending an ambulance. 15hrs later: Ambulance refers to OOHGP for abx. Is it any wonder why patients are fed up with this system? Are we system navigators for patients?

31

98

791

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

What fills me with apocalyptic rage is the constant signposting to well-being or self help services with absolutely no emphasis on dealing with the underlying issues within a workplace which has led you to poor mental health in the first place. #TheSystemIsTheProblem

21

102

761

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

Can we talk about error? I’m overcome with despair over a simple error I made with some equipment that could have caused patient harm. I look around Twitter and all I see are heroes.

186

63

699

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

I would truly love to invite GPs, DN’s or hospital based clinicians to come out with us on an 🚑 and show them how we deliver out of hosp healthcare and show them our challenges Pretty tired of “so why didn’t you...” lines of questioning at handover and justifying our existence.

51

36

652

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

Please always take the time to sign off students PAD/achievement records. Students are unpaid workers in a global pandemic who add so much value to any team. The least we can offer them is a quick squiggle & tips for their future practice. We must value our future colleagues.

11

99

622

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

Let me tell you something about (most) UK paramedics. When you ask them “how are you?” And they reply with the top drawer line of “living the dream” I promise you they most certainly aren’t living any dream at the moment.

17

38

489

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

I’m very happy to see Police Officers, Drs, teachers and other public workers get a deserved pay rise. Clearly Nurses, Physiotherapists, Paramedics and other Ambulance Associates, hospital cleaners, kitchen staff, administrators and reception staff had it too easy 🧐

14

63

362

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

I went to get petrol & milk after my nightshift this AM. I was told by a kind, non-mask wearing gentleman that I’m a liar and being paid to co-conspire with the government on the ‘hoax’ of Cov19. Three hrs before I saw someone die from it. Anyone else feeling like giving up?

28

25

350

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

The best leaving present ever.

5

341

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

7 years

Offering free lifts home if your in #vauxhall #londonbridge or #boroughmarket

7

176

220

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

Completely over the moon to have been accepted to study with @TraumaMasters this September!

15

0

239

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

25 days

This is a really painful listen and doesn’t represent views held by the wider profession. I can’t believe I’m writing this, but we MUST, with humility, respect the training, acumen and breadth of knowledge of doctors. We are an addition, not an ‘instead of’- and we undermine

Dr Done

@Dr_Done_

27 days

I’m still thinking about this. Paramedic practitioner tells @mrjamesob : 🔸It doesn’t matter that he hasn’t studied medicine 🔸He’s better than doctors because he looks up from his screen 🔸He’s essentially done medicine vocationally as he was questioned ‘for weeks’ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️

171

266

1K

9

38

243

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

Big news. Today I’ve signed a contract to become a full time Lecturer of Paramedic Science @UniofGreenwich . I finish life in green with @SECAmbulance at the end of the month. So happy for new opportunities. So sad to leave my mates.

28

0

238

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

*Unpopular Opinion* I HATE the Ferrari Formula One pit stop model used to draw similarities in medicine. Yes, we should be as efficient, but - We don’t change tyres & refuel people. - We don’t always work in the same teams. - Ferrari haven’t won a championship since 2008.

30

19

228

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

As a student, you are encouraged to look at the HCPC/NMC/GMC tribunal websites to look for “what you could get struck off for” What we probably should have been looking at is the Prevention of Future Deaths website to look at system failure rather than personal error or deviance

5

19

209

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

Dear @indeed Please can we talk? Thanks.

13

9

207

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

1 year

Many people I speak to who’ve wanted to become a paramedic tell me “I’m too old for it now…” Penrith man, 64, qualifies to become paramedic

Penrith man, 64, qualifies to become paramedic

Peter Watters is one of 200 university students who have just finished a two-year degree apprenticeship.

www.bbc.co.uk

9

14

197

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

@LeeAndersonMP_ @chris_delaney90 Dear Lee Anderson MP. The general public does not pay you, a public servant, to be nasty to people online. Stop it. Yours sincerely.

1

13

198

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

8 months

Unpopular opinion: Making ALL paramedics (NQP2->B6) into practice eds/mentors is manifestly one of the worst things we’ve done to paramedic education. Mentoring is not a passive skill, and it’s not for everyone, esp in the current landscape. Do paramedics ‘eat their young’?

25

11

180

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

5 months

On her birthday, we at Greenwich remember alumni Alice Clark today 💚🌹

0

5

169

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

5 years

Can 2020 be a year without focused energy on prehosp ECMO/ fantasy paramedic based REBOA/POC lactate testing to measure the severity of sepsis? More a year of prehospital mental health provision, more a year of quality care for our elderly fallers, more a year of staff welfare?

9

20

164

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

5 years

Distant Relative: What do you do now? Me: I’m a paramedic 🙂 Them: Ohhhh so you drive the ambulances? Me: Well yeah, sometimes bu... Them: Remeber your cousin? He was a long distance lorry driver!! Three years at University. Three years. Three. Years. 😳

6

10

146

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

10 months

Looking forward to teaching cannulation tomorrow. The most important, but often missed lesson, is #CannulaCompassion . 16g cannulas to deliver 2mls of antiemetics is, frankly, assault. Tailoring the cannula size to the cannula requirement makes misery less miserable.

10

12

132

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

You can be pissed at not tucking into turkey with ridiculously bad #Christmas cracker jokes, or you can be thankful for being alive. 3 members of my family (two of them nurses) have died of #Cov19 The embuggerance of postponed gatherings is far less than the heartache of grief.

4

23

125

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

1 year

Finally submitted my @TraumaMasters dissertation. It’s been the best course. So very lucky to have studied here! #chukachukachuka

11

2

122

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

JRCALC 2022 Updates Summary (but watch the video!) - Now 30 minutes of sustained asystole for ROLE - No precordial thump in recognised ⚡️ rhythms - More guidance on ADX & Post-ROSC care - Congenital LQTS now a contraindication for Ondanestron [1/n]

Find out what's new in the 2022 JRCALC Clinical Guidelines.

Alison Walker, Chair of JRCALC, lists the bundle 9 updates for the 2022 JRCALC Clinical Guidelines.

www.youtube.com

5

38

114

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

5 years

@DavidLammy

1

4

112

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

Me referring: I think this patient with weight loss and polyurea would benefit from a PSA at least. [Unnamed profession] “that’s not for a paramedic to decide, [Rx Nitro]”. PSA come back in four figures two weeks later. When will this rubbish end. PARAMEDICS ARE EDUCATED!

5

11

106

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

5 years

@DavidLammy @BorisJohnson The £350m bus?

2

1

105

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

1 year

Trauma Masters ✅ Thank you so much for an incredible programme. So grateful to learn from the world’s best! @karimbrohi @TraumaEMC @jackrapppoport #chukachukachuka

5

0

98

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

“Call an Ambulance, they’ll check you over at home” This has to be one of the most ignorant and damaging things anyone can say towards our profession & service. We cannot take over the deficits in primary care because our gvt and system does not see the value of DISTRICT NURSES

5

98

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

Writing a presentation about the *actual* work of Paramedics for a lecture I’ve been asked to give in a few weeks time. Television programmes have very much ignored how complex our work is. I’m really looking forward to change some perceptions (as well as changing my own!)

13

3

96

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

A great quote from @donberwick “Our consciousness or super ego hovers like raptor birds, exhorting us to never fail & to always be perfect at the expense of our sleep & the cost of our comfort- and yet still things go wrong”

4

14

93

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

5 years

First ROSC/R as a qualified paramedic came midway through dessert this evening thanks to the @GoodSamApp . Pt awake and talking after a smashing team effort. Sadly, whilst dealing, Larna ate the rest of my dessert. Win some lose some in life, I guess.

3

4

91

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

5 years

So very lucky to have recieved my dream job offer from @SECAmbulance as a newly qualified paramedic. Never give up on your dreams.

13

0

86

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

Yes, paramedics feel they are more misused than an aubergine emoji. But can we pls stop blaming patients? If they can’t access services, if they haven’t been educated, if they haven’t been empowered to make healthier lifestyle decisions- can we blame them? We reap what we sow

9

11

87

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

“It’s all about finding calm in the chaos”...

8

2

87

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

I’ve come to realise 29 years into life, a year into a pandemic and 7 months into post grad study I’ve got the resilience of a McDonalds McFlurry machine.

5

1

82

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

@SepsisUK Does ITU bed occupancy show how busy the OVERALL hospital system is? It doesn’t. Beds are furniture. You need staff to look after patients. Many colleagues are off sick. A lot more than the first wave. And to share this Ron, I’m sorry to say is deeply, deeply uncomfortable.

17

5

80

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

Celebrating 17 years at ⁦ @stjohnambulance ⁩ this morning.

6

0

80

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

5 years

@IvankaTrump @POTUS @FLOTUS Welcomes a bit of a strong word.

0

2

71

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

“Remember that patient you saw?” is quite frankly the most terrifying thing to say to an NQP. That and “An assessment has been made to your portfolio”.

8

4

78

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

How lucky are we to have dogs in our lives? Maisie fell asleep this morning after 16 years of unconditional love & friendship- through some bloody hard times. RIP Woofer x

19

0

78

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 months

Just give the blanket to rigoring patients who feel cold.

Sam Ghali, M.D.

@EM_RESUS

4 months

What’s your unpopular medical opinion that would land you in this position? Drop it in this thread

2K

232

2K

4

0

77

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

7 months

I had the best day today @TraumaMasters Huge thanks to @QMUL @TraumaEMC @kashakhtar @karimbrohi - you were missed, Prof!

6

2

75

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 months

It’s my…*checks paperwork*….19th time working the London Marathon for St John. Very proud of this team at the finish. If you’ve even attempted to run it this year, then a massive well done!

2

0

73

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

Friends, pls don’t buy into the narrative of ‘I waited 12hrs for an ambulance so I took myself to hospital via taxi’. Just because a patient takes themselves to hospital doesn’t mean they needed to be there in the 1st place. We are not Taxi drivers. We can do and think better.

4

7

73

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

1 year

Epic @stjohnambulance team yesterday supporting the #Coronation

0

1

68

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

Today I turned 30, and it’s been a muted celebration. Waves of loss, despair, sadness. But also grateful for working with people who are just as outstanding looking after their friends as they are looking after their patients- when the real dark times come. #WaveofLight

4

2

68

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 months

Ahhhh I am so grateful to our amazing students for this! #SLTAs

16

1

66

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

1 year

Think Paramedic life in the UK is bad? Try 40°C heat, 45hr working weeks and for £292 a month. Observing practice abroad put things into perspective.

5

1

64

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

Why can’t a paramedic have accountability for quality & safety…of an ambulance service?

Lee Parker

@lardyc7

2 years

This job is being advertised at the North East AMBULANCE Service….but if you work as a Paramedic in an AMBULANCE Service you cannot apply! This is bonkers! @ParamedicsUK @NHSEngland @AACE_org

17

5

58

10

4

64

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

Living life on both ends of the stethoscope gives you a pretty unique perspective. @RNOHnhs continue to be exceptional. Thanks for the well wishes.

11

1

63

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

8 months

Nasopharyngeal Airways: A 🧵 NPAs are hollow plastic tubes designed to ensure patency of the airway between the naries & post pharynx. They’ve been around since 1958 in a variety of sizes and have a ‘flared’ end to stop them migrating down the airway & causing obstruction

9

8

61

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

5 years

Today I graduated with dearest friends with a first class honours in Paramedic Science @UniofGreenwich which is amazing. But my making my Dad weep with pride at my ceremony was just the best.

5

3

62

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

The more ambulance programmes I see, the greater the argument that we shouldn’t use people’s suffering for the general public’s entertainment. Victorians visiting ‘lunatic asylums’ is an affront to our moral compass today- but is there a difference to todays television shows?

4

7

61

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

Patient: Don’t worry I’ve put my dog away. He gets so friendly and just wants stroking. Me: Thank you! Also me: 😔😔😔😔😔

2

3

58

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

1 year

Fantastic marathon and I met some absolute legends today. Huge well done @hansmeths @therunningpara

0

1

57

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

Great to meet everyone today at @UniofGreenwich open day to talk about the paramedic programme!

1

0

57

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

6 years

@AuroraBorealice During the committal, the priest slipped in the rain and fell down into my cousins grave in Ireland once. We laughed too.

0

1

55

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

@BeckyPlatt3 You’re very kind. And you Becky, all the best for 2023!

0

2

53

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

Bullying is still rife in the ambulance service & unshackling those whose lives are made miserable by it, by highlighting & guiding others towards greater and happier opportunities healthcare & other sectors have to offer will, one day, be a humbling legacy.

4

53

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

No I don’t know everything that’s in the vaccine. Much like I don’t know the Colonel’s 7 secret herbs and spices are. But I still live for it?

4

9

50

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

It continues to be a privilege to administer the vaccine to those who are housebound or resident in nursing & care homes in South London and Kent. Over 700 done so far- and not one vaccine wasted. Back to Ambulancing Monday.

6

3

50

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

So there I was, handed a tea from my crewmate. Everything was going well. The sweet last mouthful to power through the morning workload. Then…

3

0

47

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

Being kicked out of the [Ambulance Trust] community page, just after highlighting we need an increased sense of community is the most NHS thing that’s ever happened to me.

6

0

47

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

Absolutely with those paramedics striking today.

0

48

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

1 year

This man was hilarious. RIP Paul.

1

0

47

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

You know what? My badge couldn’t have come at a more apt time.

4

0

46

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

Dear @DVLAgovuk Please don’t encourage more of us to leave this profession to drive a lorry for double the pay. Very best wishes.

4

2

44

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

Not the worst balcony view ever!

4

0

45

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

Work emails at 22:15 about using the right code on a PCR. Are we really suprised we aren’t getting good quality sleep? Work email app deleted from personal phone 😌

3

0

45

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

There are two people at my station alone, not even leaving the job, but LEAVING THE PROFESSION because of things like this. When will we realise the direct relationship between staff welfare and PATIENT SAFETY?

Louisa

@Lou_g72

3 years

front line ambulance staff being told to not wear their soft shell jacket in winter due to IPC… ummm… I have no words. Is there anything more that can be done to make me feel like I’m expected to perform like a robot?!?! #paramedic #ambulance

31

13

203

7

10

46

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

Memory bear/desk mascot out of my old uniform

2

0

44

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

9 months

PGCertHE ✅

2

0

44

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

Great food, great wine, great company. What more could you ask for on your birthday?

5

0

43

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

[Exit Stage Right]

1

0

43

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

Here's a thing- shall we keep retweeting the Samaritans number or remind staff of an 'open door management policy, or shall we work upstream and not accept that poor mental health in the ambulance service is inevitable? It baffles me. It absolutely baffles me.

4

9

45

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

Today, my family lost its second member to Covid-19. Retired Nursing Sister Yvonne Kennedy fought the disease, along with many others so bravely and will be very sorely missed. Thanks to @uhbwNHS for first class care.

15

1

43

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

Pictures of my Mum’s new puppy is getting me through Covid. Dusty aims to be as big as her sister one day.

6

0

42

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

8 months

Have deleted the “mask on airway circuit”post as people got personally offensive for 0 reason. But I guess that’s Medtwitter for you? It was an idea not to lose a BVM mask/have flexibility PDQ in PH practice. That is all. Calm down lads.

12

0

42

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

It was such an honour to be a paramedic at the mall for the HM Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral procession. Certainly a life memory to be a part of. But how lucky are we to have our armed forces? Today, like everyday, they have done a faultless job & made us all proud.

1

0

42

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

*Cheesy post* The pandemic has shown us that good crewmates & colleagues are vital in this job. The last year paired with @SianMwinter has been the best. Whilst very sad we split as a duo, I’m so proud she starts her paramedic training next week. It’s been so much fun 🚑 💪

3

0

39

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

Today I received a cuddle from a patient’s pet Alpaca and I won’t lie to you all- It was needed. #bestjobever

0

1

39

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

5 years

A fantastic talk on the uses of TXA from @srrezaie Nebulised TXA looks like a game changer from post-tonsillectomy bleeding and haemoptysis.

1

17

42

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

Live from winners row: Patient: “Have you got your bus pass?” Me: “Bus Pass?” Patient: “Yes” Me: “errrrrm how old do you think I am?” Patient “Oh errrrm, I’m going to be nice..errr....middle fifties?” I’m 28 years old. 28.

6

0

40

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

#PSA AMBULANCE STAFF CANNOT SWAB YOU FOR CORONAVIRUS Kind regards, JK. #covid19UK

1

11

40

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

4 years

Sneezing in an FFP3 mask is one of the most unpleasant things I’ve ever experienced.

3

40

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

On this day, we celebrate 50 years of the paramedic profession. So much has changed in the last 5, I can’t imagine what it will look like in 2071.

1

40

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

I had the best day teaching first year student paramedics today.

1

0

39

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

3 years

Ms Swee Ang. Trained the orthopods who looked & operated onme as a kid at the London- now with such humility, sharing experiences with @TraumaMasters students with a lovely canapé reception. Humbled to even sit next to her.

1

39

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

2 years

Just to highlight again; that whilst the government drive for minimum staffing standards during strike action- there has NEVER been any standards of minimum safe staffing levels in the 🚑 services ever- since 1884! Safe care is judged by the ⏱️ and not pt centred approaches

2

6

39

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

5 years

It’s all done & it’s all over. 3 years of hard work with this amazing crew (and others!) for which I am so thankful. Some incredible memories- I will miss this so much!

2

0

39

Jack Kennedy

@jackgkennedy

1 year

Had a great time with new physio @catjackson86 #MySJADay

0

36