Navigating and Challenging the Trauma Landscape (Joe Blansfield S5E2)

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Joe Blansfield. Joseph “Joe” Blansfield is a board-certified Adult Nurse Practitioner with over 5 decades of experience in the emergency and trauma setting. The last 27 years of his career were spent in the role of the Trauma/Acute Care Surgery Program Manager at Boston Medical Center, where Joe was responsible for maintaining all the requirements for this Level 1 Trauma Center until his retirement in June 2019. Joe also has 26 years of active military service in the US Army Reserves retiring as a Colonel from the Army Nurse Corp, also earning a Bronze Star Medal and Legion of Merit. Joe has volunteered for BCEN through the TCRN Exam Construction Review Committee, worked on revisions of trauma materials for ENA, as well as being a speaker and published author of many clinical topics. He has been recognized for his excellence through various national awards as his dedication to nursing seems to know no bounds. Come along as Michael Dexter and Hollye Briggs talk with Joe about his career in all things trauma related, from the stretcher-side to deployment, advanced practice to giving back and everything in between.    This episode is called “Navigating and Challenging the Trauma Landscape.” Joe can be reached on Facebook and LinkedIn @Joseph Blansfield.