Terry M. Foster MSN, RN, FAEN, CCRN, CPEN, TCRN, CEN

Terry Foster is ambassador for the St. Elizabeth Foundation along with his position as a clinical nurse specialist in the emergency departments. He has been employed in this six-hospital system since 1975. Terry was originally a 1977 LPN graduate of Booth Memorial Hospital School of Practical Nursing in Covington, Kentucky. In 1997, he received his master’s degree in critical care and trauma nursing from the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing and Health. His primary areas of nursing experience are in the emergency department and critical care units, where he has national certifications in critical care nursing, emergency nursing, pediatric emergency nursing, and trauma nursing. Terry has authored more than 40 professional publications in various textbooks, nursing, and healthcare journals. He has lectured on a wide variety of clinical topics at nursing seminars and conferences throughout the USA, having given over 5000 formal presentations. Terry has been the recipient of the Judith Kelleher award, the highest award given by the national Emergency Nurses Association, and he was inducted as a fellow into the Academy of Emergency Nursing, an internationally appointed group of accomplished emergency nursing leaders from around the world. Since 1998, Terry has been the critical care clinical nurse specialist in the six emergency departments at St. Elizabeth Healthcare (a Magnet-designated hospital) in Edgewood, Kentucky.