Joop Breuer

Joop Breuer is in his fourth year as a member of the Emergency Nurses Association Board of Directors.

Born in the Netherlands near the German border, Breuer finished nursing school in 1980. After serving in the army medical corps in the Netherlands, he started his ICU training in The Hague, from which he graduated with honors. After working in the ICU at Leiden University Medical Centre, he was asked to do a summer rotation in the emergency department of the Level I trauma center. At that point, he immediately knew he wanted to switch to the ED. Since then, he has worked in several roles in the LUMC emergency department, including as a staff nurse, in management, an education coordinator, and, currently, as a charge nurse with stretcher side responsibilities.