BCEN & Friends

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Becky Rich. Becky Rich has been in the world of emergency medicine and nursing for the past 9 years, and recently obtained her Doctorate in Nursing Practice. She works full time in nursing education teaching didactic and practical skills and also works PRN as a float nurse across multiple emergency departments in a local health sy...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Angela Atwood. Angela ‘Angie’ Atwood has over 25 years of experience caring for critical care patients in ground, air, and hospital environments. She has served in roles ranging from paramedic, firefighter, ER nurse, Flight RN, and direction of education. Angie has her MSN in Nursing leadership and management as well as her CFRN a...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Joe Hill. Joe Hill started his career at a Level 1 adult/pediatric trauma center then moved into critical care ground transport. He decided to make the jump into flight medicine where he stayed for 19 years serving as a flight nurse and clinical directors. In 2021, Joe finished his MSN-APRN and in March of 2023 Joe began working a...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Mandy Felder. Mandy Felder is a leader in pediatric trauma care with over 20 years of pediatric nursing experience. She is currently the Pediatric Trauma Program Manager at an ACS Level II trauma center in South Carolina. Mandy serves on the South Carolina Emergency Medical Services for Children Committee as well as the Trauma Adv...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Tesla Teitge. Tesla is an emergency nurse with over 10 years of clinical experience. She is also the owner and creator for the dynamic and “Paradise” inspired compressions socks from her company, Up at Dawn Compression Socks. In 2023, Tesla completed her Masters in Nursing Education. She lives with her family in the Garden State w...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Lynn Miller Hayward. Lynn Miller Hayward was born in South Africa and started her nursing career by obtaining a Bachelor of Social Sciences as a Registered Nursing and Midwife in 1979. She moved to the US shortly after graduating and spent 3 years in US healthcare before returning to South Africa. An experience with emergency serv...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Shawntay Harris. Shawntay Harris is the President and CEO of Eminent Healthcare Resources Consultants Inc, which offers education for nurses from bedside clinical training to leadership and administrative coursework. With over 23 years of nursing experience in emergency services, she has established an influence in her home state...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Mary Whelan. Mary Whelan has held many different leadership positions over the past 24 years of her career as a director of emergency services from a level II Trauma Center to a community hospital ED, she proved time and again with every leadership role that she possesses the tools to transform department culture and produce impro...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Joe Blansfield. Joseph “Joe” Blansfield is a board-certified Adult Nurse Practitioner with over 5 decades of experience in the emergency and trauma setting. The last 27 years of his career were spent in the role of the Trauma/Acute Care Surgery Program Manager at Boston Medical Center, where Joe was responsible for maintaining all...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Anne O’Connor. Annemarie O’Connor is an Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner at the Burn and Complex Wound Center at the University of Chicago Medicine in Illinois. With over 35 years of nursing within burn care from the bedside to administration and advanced practice, Anne has taken on responsibilities that encompass intensive ca...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Alice Benjamin. “Nurse Alice” Benjamin is a board-certified family nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, author, speaker, podcast host and a nurse pioneer on TV as a medical correspondent. Her experiences range from cardiovascular health, critical care, and emergency medicine involving patient care at some of the most pre...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend George Olschewski. George Olschewski started out in healthcare as an EMT in 1993 and finished an English degree with a minor in journalism before going back for his nursing degree. Since 1998 George worked in the hospital from the intermediate and step down units to the ED at the Level One trauma center-University Hospital in Newa...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Jordan Tyczka. Jordan is currently the director of trauma services at Inova Loudoun Hospital, which is a Level III trauma center in Leesburg, VA. Since starting her nursing career in 2007, Jordan has worked in various Level I and Level II trauma centers along the east coast. She has obtained her master’s degree in nursing educatio...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Kayleigh Summers. Kayleigh Summers is a licensed clinical social worker and private practice owner in Downingtown, PA. Kayleigh uses her training as a licensed therapist and her own experience as an Amniotic Fluid Embolism survivor to treat and support families experiencing perinatal trauma. Kayleigh has created thriving birth tra...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Kris Ramos. Kris Ramos is a master’s prepared registered nurse and paramedic with a broad base of critical care experience including ground and air ambulance prehospital care, adult and pediatric emergency departments, pediatric cardiovascular intensive care, PICU, NICU, hemodialysis, and leadership roles. He currently serves as t...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Sean Fox. Dr. Sean Fox is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and of Pediatrics as well as the Program Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency at Carolinas Medical Center. He works half his shifts in the Pediatric ED and the other half in the Adult ED. Since his time at the University of Maryland, when he served as a Chief Resi...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Carole Covey. Carole Covey has worked in various roles within healthcare over the past 15 years, ranging from ED to ICU, trauma to flight nursing, pre-hospital to administration and lots of in between. She has a passion for education, leadership and serving those in vulnerable populations. During 2020, Carole focused her efforts o...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Travis McCall. Dr. Travis McCall obtained his MSN in 2013 from Vanderbilt University specializing in ED education and earned his Doctor of Philosophy in 2021 from the University of Tennessee College of Nursing with a graduate minor in Epidemiology in Public Health. His dissertation focused on secondary traumatic stress and promoti...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Caitlin Parker.. Caitlin Parker is a Certified Child Life Specialist at Atrium Health Levine Children's in Charlotte, NC. In her 13-year career at Levine's, she has worked in various roles across multiple service lines in pediatric and adult populations. She is driven by a passion for enhancing family nuclei coping and advocacy in...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Jonah Pregulman. Jonah has been a nurse since 2016, having initially obtained his BSN from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. He earned his MSN from Capella University with a specialization in Informatics in 2020. Jonah specializes in emergency, flight, and critical care transport. Jonah has also achieved all 5 BCEN...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Jacob Miller. Jacob Miller is a Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist, and Nationally Registered Paramedic with a background in flight, critical care transport, and emergency nursing, in addition to over 15 years of EMS practice. Jacob received his Master of Science in acute care from the University of Maryland, a post-mas...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Steven Malarchick. Steven Malarchick began his career in prehospital care as an EMT-basic progressing to a Paramedic. His medic career included roles as the Regional EMS Coordinator for Colorado as well as offshore work on a deep-water drill ship and as public safety Director for the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. He became a nurse in 20...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Sarah Wells Sarah Wells is a certified emergency nurse with her master’s in nursing. She is a national speaker, educator, and the founder of New Thing Nurse, an academic and professional coaching company for the nursing community. Sarah works with nurses and nursing students from around the United States to help them achieve their...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Hannah Pye. Hannah Pye is a certified emergency nurse working as full-time nursing faculty while pursuing her DNP degree. Hannah is passionate about breastfeeding success and believes emergency department nurses can play a key role in breastfeeding support. Her other professional interests include nursing student success, disaster...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Bruce Hoffman. Bruce is a critical care registered nurse and paramedic whose clinical background includes the ICU, ER, trauma, cardiology and critical care transport/flight.  He holds graduate degrees in education and advanced practice. Bruce has spoken at multiple conferences and has a passion for education. He lives in CT with h...