Getting to know BCEN’s 2022 Distinguished CPEN Award Winner (Jessica Evins)

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 Pediatric Emergency Nurse in 2016. Jessica is a strong advocate for simulation-based multidisciplinary education and serves on her department’s simulation committee and as the co-chair of her hospital’s vascular access committee.

Jessica authored a pediatric emergency nursing handbook that is in use by her hospital and has presented and been an invited speaker on medical simulation and clinical debriefing at a number of national and international conferences—and has also advised business leaders on teamwork in high pressure settings.

Jessica is passionate about expanding the roles of both palliative care and child life in the emergency department setting and also works as a sexual assault forensic examiner. Prior to becoming a nurse, Jessica was an aerospace engineer at the U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command, where she received the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award. Jessica holds a Bachelor of Science in engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Science in nursing from New York University. She resides in New York City with her husband, one year old daughter, and dog. Jessica is the recipient of the 2022 BCEN Distinguished CPEN award.

Michael Dexter and Mark Eggers talk with Jessica, about being a pediatric nurse and what her role entails. Congratulations to Jessica Evins for being BCEN’s 2022 Distinguished CPEN Award Winner

This episode is called, Getting to know BCEN’s 2022 Distinguished CPEN Award Winner

Jessica Evins can be found on LinkedIn by searching for Jessica Evins