Rusty Carroll reflects on moving into a leadership role as an advanced clinical practitioner. The post explores prioritisation, breaking work into manageable tasks, building trust, delegation and humility, with lessons intended for colleagues across professional backgrounds.
The Rise of an ACP: Leadership. Read More
Writing as 2020 began, Rusty Carroll reflects on the growth of advanced clinical practitioners from a paramedic background. He discusses education, credentialing and the four pillars of advanced practice, alongside professional trust and the evolving place of these roles in emergency care teams.
Rusty reflects on why traumatic experiences affected him so profoundly and how therapy helped him make sense of PTSD. This personal account explores moral injury, disrupted beliefs about the world and the continuing process of understanding his own recovery.
PTSD and me part 5: why did I break? Read More
Rusty Carroll reflects on the eighteen months after completing therapy for PTSD. In this personal account, he describes returning to clinical work, rebuilding physical wellbeing and reconsidering professional identity, showing how recovery continued through everyday choices and a different relationship with work.
PTSD and me part 4: post therapy Read More
In the third part of his personal account of PTSD, Rusty Carroll describes his experience of eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy. He reflects on waiting for treatment, the emotional demands of therapy and the changes that helped him rebuild his wellbeing.
PTSD and me part 3: EMDR therapy. St Emlyn’s Read More
In part two of his personal PTSD series, Rusty Carroll asks how clinicians might recognise distress in themselves or colleagues. He reflects on changes in sleep, behaviour and emotional responses, and on the difficulty of acknowledging that coping alone may no longer be enough.
Keep walking. PTSD and me part 2. St Emlyn’s Read More
Rusty Carroll shares a personal account of post-traumatic stress in emergency care, describing its effects on work, relationships and everyday life. His reflection explores recognising distress, seeking help and the importance of family, colleagues and a workplace culture that supports staff through psychological injury.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. A personal story. St.Emlyn’s Read More
