Brooke Hendriksen is our lead in the telemetry unit which is the step down unit from the CCU. She has had a varied career before becoming a nurse only 6.5 years ago. She is from North Idaho and has lived in Hawaii, St. Louis, and Alaska working in logging camps, saw mills, and as a vet assistant. She settled on nursing because of her love of math and science.
She loves cardiac nursing because of the complexities of the heart. She finds the electrophysiology of the heart a fascinating puzzle. She is the daughter of a military family who moved every 2 years. The HHNW mission is a perfect fit for her. It allows her to travel (in place of actually moving) and do the cardiac nursing she loves. She has always wanted to volunteer and after offering to go to New Orleans after Katrina and Indonesia post tsunami and not being called, she became committed to HHNW. We are fortunate she did!
Brooke's other pastimes are horses (she has 2) and fish (130 gallons of water in 4 tanks!). Fun fact: as well as enjoying exotic fish, she raises tiger shrimp and supplies the only store in Spokane that sells them!
Brooke is married to Brad and she has 3 stepchildren and 1 grandchild.
Brooke is pictured above with Dative, a patient we operated on last year and had to be re-operated on this year.
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