BCEN & Friends

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Major Tiffany Welsh. Tiffany Welsh is a registered nurse in the United States Air Force Nurse Corp. Her primary nursing practice has been in Emergency and Trauma nursing for 18 years, and she has been on active duty for 10 years. Since coming on active duty, Major Welsh has served as a trauma nurse in military treatment facilities as well a...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Roger Casey. Roger has over 30 years of emergency and critical care nursing experience. He uses his experience by volunteering on the BCEN Certified Emergency Nurse Exam Construction Review Committee to provide evidence-based items to the emergency nursing certification. He serves currently on the Board of Directors for BCEN. Roge...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Heather Scruton. Heather is a transport nurse who graduated from the University of Kansas with her nursing degree in 1997 and went back for her master’s degree in nursing and business administration from the University of Mary in 2014. She has over 25 years of experience with high-risk obstetric patients. Heather currently serves...

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Steve Cumming. Steve Cumming has been in healthcare for over 30 years. He started his career in the US Navy and following honorable discharge, he obtained his nursing degree. His early nursing career was in the emergency and ICU setting, however after 15 years, Steve found his true passion: flight nursing. He advocates for lifelon...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend, Nancy Denke. Nancy is a Nurse Practitioner in Scottsdale, AZ.  She has lived & worked all over the United States. She grew up in New York and went to Penn State as an undergrad. Years later, she would return to school at the U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and earn her MSN as a Clinical Nurse Specialist and then return a year later to ear...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Martha Roberts Martha Roberts is an Assistant Professor and lead of the Pediatrics department for Samuel Merritt School of Nursing in Sacramento, California. She is also an adult and pediatric nurse practitioner at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center in the emergency department. Martha is a host for the Center for Me...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Brandon Joines. Brandon Joines is an emergency nurse with over 18 years of experience including pre-hospital, flight and transport care. Brandon started his career as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT-Basic) in early 2000’s and since then Brandon has obtained his Master’s in Nursing Education in 2020. Brandon currently works as a flight...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Austin Johnson. Austin is a registered nurse born, raised, and living in Florida. He is a Critical Care Transport Nurse with AdventHealth Central Florida, one of the largest hospital systems in the country with an equally large fleet of ground and flight transport units. Austin holds all 5 BCEN credentials as well as 2 other specialty certi...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Kristen Gilmore. Kristen obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2004 and in 2014 she graduated with her master’s degree in Nursing. Kristen’s career includes work as an ED nurse, clinical nurse manager, nursing supervisor, nurse manager, and clinical operations coordinator. Throughout her career, Kristen has been the recipient of mu...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Jamin Rankin. Jamin Rankin obtained a bachelor's degree in biology prior to pursuing nursing school. He has been a nurse since 2013, having worked in the emergency department, air transport, and now as a trauma program manager. Jamin’s nursing interests involve all things emergency, trauma, and critical care. In his role as a trauma program...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Barbara Weintraub. Barbara has been an ER nurse since 1985. After initially obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Northwestern in 1983, she completed her bachelor's degree in nursing in 1984. Barbara later obtained a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1991 and a Master’s in Nursing from Rush Univ...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Mark Eggers. Mark Eggers is the Education and Technology Services Manager at BCEN. Mark started his formal career in I/T about 48 years ago working on IBM mainframes (no personal computers at that time) as a computer operator. As his career progressed, he went into various management roles in I/T including customer support manager for a hot...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Eddie Johnson. Eddie Johnson is a skilled nursing professional with a varied clinical background in both the acute and subacute care settings. Focused and hardworking, he strives for clinical excellence through an evidence based multidisciplinary team approach, ensuring only the best outcomes. He leads by example, empowering other team memb...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Ed Hunt. Ed Hunt is an BCEN certified nurse working in the ER in Southwest Washington State. Ed currently works at two hospitals - one tiny 6 bed ER in a coastal tourist town and the other a big 44 bed ER in a metro area. Nursing is a second career for Ed – for 14 years he was a newspaper reporter and early pioneer of on-line journalism in...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Bill Malone. Bill Malone is a flight nurse, respiratory therapist, and emergency medical technician from northern Mississippi. After obtaining his respiratory therapy degree in 2004, Bill later pursued nursing and graduated with a nursing degree in 2011. Bill has been flying full time for five years now and remains part time in the CCU, PIC...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Brett Dodd. Brett Dodd is the Associate Director for the Women’s Guild Simulation Center for Advance Learning at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. He spent 6 years in the pre-hospital environment working as a paramedic and has been a Registered Nurse for over 20 years.  He has an associate degree in Emergency Medical Technolog...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Antoinette Weathers. Antoinette has many years of healthcare experience. She progressed from a novice stretcher-side nurse to management, leadership, and professional development roles. She believes strongly in life-long learning, and it shows in her background. She recently received a 35-year pin from the Board of Certification for Emergen...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Scott DeBoer. Scott DeBoer is a dynamic seminar leader with over 30 years of emergency, critical care, & flight nursing experience. After 25 years of flight nursing at the University of Chicago, Scott is now the primary seminar leader for Pedi-Ed-Trics, a company dedicated to teaching better ways to care for kids.  Scott holds a master’s de...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Kory Scheideman. Kory Scheideman was born and raised in Colorado.  Kory grew up as a fire brat with his father as a volunteer firefighter and would often respond to calls with his father (it was the 80’s). Then in high school Kory became one of the first school-to-career fire fighters and started his fire career. He worked as a career firef...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Jessica Evins. Jessica Evins is a registered nurse in the Pediatric Emergency Department at New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital—the only Pediatric Level 1 trauma center in New York City. Jessica has worked in the Pediatric Emergency Department for her entire nursing career, beginning in 2014, and became a Certified Pedi...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Shayna Stevens. Shayna has been a nurse for 20 years. She graduated from Stephen F Austin State University and currently attends West Texas A&M University for Gradate school. She is seeking a master’s degree in comprehensive nursing. Shayna has worked as a nurse in ICU stepdown, ICU, surgical, dialysis, and most recently emergency room sett...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Kay Brown. Kay Brown is a 73 yr. old Grandmother, Mother & wife who is blessed with a caring family. Kay doesn’t mind telling her age because she says she worked very hard for all those years, and she doesn’t mind claiming all of them. She was a Commercial Property Manager until her heart issues made it impossible & she had to retire in her...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Laura Kemerling. Laura is a registered nurse and works for the Children’s Mercy Critical Care Transport team in Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated from Missouri Western State University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and began her nursing career in the operating room at Children’s Mercy Hospital, later transitioning to adul...

This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Sam Quinones. Sam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist, a reporter for 35 years, and author of four acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction. He is a veteran reporter on immigration, gangs, drug trafficking, and the border. He is formerly a reporter with the L.A. Times, where he worked for 10 years. Before that, he made a liv...

Bob Fojut [FOY-et] is the editor of Trauma System News, an online publication dedicated to trauma center leadership and management. In this role, Bob oversees coverage of topics such as trauma center standards compliance, trauma quality and PI, trauma team organization, trauma data management and trauma registry. And, thanks to a new content partnership with BCEN, Trauma System News is now expandi...