\u201cI have been an RN for more than 30 years. I graduated with a BSN and started my career working in a med\/surg unit, eventually transferring to the ICU after a year\u2014but I always knew that I would end up in the ED because I knew that emergency nursing was my true calling. When the right opportunity became available, I moved to a Level 1 trauma center as a staff RN. I worked my way into the trauma room and never looked back. I spent 12 years at this center and was the director by the end of my time there. I also spent a few years doing part-time flight nursing during this time. I then spent the next eight years as an administrative director for a couple of different emergency departments\u2014including having responsibility for two urgent care centers. At that point I was looking for something different and found the patient flow role at Health First. I had only seen patient flow\u2014and the opportunities for improvement\u2014from the emergency department side and was very interested to see it from the inpatient side. I took a new role at Health First as the Patient Flow Administrator and within six months I had also taken on the role of managing the staffing office and the house supervisors. The patient flow role morphed into a role that allowed us to centralize patient flow across the IDN, by adding the flight team, flight communications, centralized registration, non-medical stretcher transport and the transfer center under the one umbrella of Centralized Patient Logistics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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