The Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN), the benchmark for nursing specialty certification across the emergency spectrum, recently announced its 2024-2025 board of directors:
Chairperson: Allen C. Wolfe Jr., MSN, CNS, APRN, CFRN, CCRN, CTRN, TCRN, CMTE, FAASTN, senior director of clinical education, Life Link III, Bloomington, Minnesota.
Chairperson-elect: Julie Ruddy, BS, RN, CEN, CPEN, TCRN, retired 41-year acute care/emergency/trauma nurse, of Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Secretary/Treasurer: Sean Elwell, DNP, RN, NE-BC, TCRN, EMT, senior director, trauma center, critical care transport, emergency services, Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware, in Wilmington, Delaware.
Immediate Past Chairperson: Rebecca Steinmann, MS, APRN, CPEN, CEN, TCRN, CCRN, CCNS, FAEN, AHA instructor, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
The returning members-at-large of the BCEN board are:
Steven P. Talbot, MSN, RN, CEN, TCRN, professional practice leader, emergency services, Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital, Houston, Texas.
Roger Casey, MSN, RN, CEN, TCRN, FAEN, lead nurse, freestanding emergency department, Kadlec Regional Medical Center, Kennewick, Washington.
Brody Eick, MBA, BSN, BS, RN, CEN, CCRN, TCRN, director of trauma services, Eisenhower Health, Rancho Mirage, California.
The board’s new member-at-large is:
Emily Werthman, PhD (c), MSN, RN, CBRN, burn program coordinator, The Johns Hopkins Burn Center at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland.
Other BCEN board members are:
Public Representative: Robert Corrao, executive chairman, Harbor, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Ex-officio Member: BCEN CEO Janie Schumaker, MBA, BSN, RN, CEN, CENP, CPHQ, FABC.
BCEN also recognized outgoing board members Leigh Ann Yates of Hallmark Financial Services, who served as the public representative for the 2022-2023 term, and Kyle Madigan, MHCDS, MSN, RN, CEN, CFRN, CTRN, CCRN, CMTE, who served on the BCEN board for 12 years.
Madigan is one of BCEN’s longest-serving volunteers. He started working with BCEN in 1998 as an item writer for the Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN) exam and later chaired the CFRN/CTRN Exam Construction Review Committee before joining the board of directors in 2011.
“We are grateful for Kyle’s 25 years of service to BCEN, during which time his tremendous transport nursing and nursing specialty certification expertise and his willingness to be a mentor and serve in national and federal leadership roles helped advance the flight and critical care ground transport specialties, inspired countless transport nurses, and contributed to the medical transport industry in so many ways,” said BCEN CEO Janie Schumaker.