Mark W Boswell
MSN, FNP-BC, CEN, CFRN, CTRN, CPEN, TCRN, SCRN, NREMT-P, EMT-T, W-EMT
I initially started my career in emergency care as a volunteer firefighter in Pensacola FL at The Ferry Pass Volunteer Fire Department in 1989. While with the fire department I became certified as a DOT-First Responder and began doing rescue and EMS work with the fire department.
Later I enrolled in nursing school and dual-enrolled in the EMT program. Later, I received my Paramedic certificate and began working part-time for the local EMS department while still volunteering for the fire department, and working part-time as a staff RN in the Emergency Department.
During my years as a staff RN I've worked in various settings including: Emergency Departments, Critical Care/Intensive Care/Progressive Care Units and Orthopedic/Neurology Units.
Later, I continued going to school part-time while working to complete my Bachelor's Degree in Nursing and subsequently my Master's Degree in Nursing – both awarded from the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. After graduation I then went on to obtain national board certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner.
After spending time on the Florida Gulf Coast in Pensacola, I moved to Greenville SC. Here I began working in a Level I University-Teaching Hospital, in the Emergency- Trauma Center. My work here includes being one of the lead providers on the ED Stroke Response Team, and Congestive Heart Failure/observation unit in the ED as well as seeing and treating patients in the main ED and Fast Track areas.
I've continued to work on my post-graduate education at Clemson University taking classes towards a Post-Master's Certificate in Nursing Education. This curriculum has included courses in educational needs assessments and testing & evaluation design and principles.
I try to stay very involved in my professional organizations including the Emergency Nurses Association. In the ENA I've served as local chapter president, vice-president and secretary. I also SAT on the South Carolina EMS Advisory Council as a representative of the ENA. I still continue to work part-time as a Paramedic for the local EMS service.
Lastly I am a member of the South Carolina Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) under direction of the US. Department of Health & Human Services and the National Disaster Medical Service (NDMS) as an intermittent federal employee.
I am also an active member of Nursing's National Honor Society: Sigma Theta Tau, since being inducted as a community nursing leader in 2004. I teach many classes in Emergency and Critical Care as well as EMS. Currently I am a credentialed First Aid, BLS and ACLS instructor under the American Heart Association. I am also credentialed as an instructor, director, and faculty for the ENA's Trauma Nursing (TNCC) and Emergency Pediatric Nursing (ENPC) courses. I have earned all four BCEN credentials: the Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN), Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN), Certified Transport Registered Nurse (CTRN),and Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse (CPEN). I am one of only four people it the US to hold all four of these - and the only one still full time at the patient bedside.
I have also been a guest speaker and presenter at conferences and seminars throughout the South Eastern region.
MSN, FNP-BC, CEN, CFRN, CTRN, CPEN, TCRN, SCRN, NREMT-P, EMT-T, W-EMT
I initially started my career in emergency care as a volunteer firefighter in Pensacola FL at The Ferry Pass Volunteer Fire Department in 1989. While with the fire department I became certified as a DOT-First Responder and began doing rescue and EMS work with the fire department.
Later I enrolled in nursing school and dual-enrolled in the EMT program. Later, I received my Paramedic certificate and began working part-time for the local EMS department while still volunteering for the fire department, and working part-time as a staff RN in the Emergency Department.
During my years as a staff RN I've worked in various settings including: Emergency Departments, Critical Care/Intensive Care/Progressive Care Units and Orthopedic/Neurology Units.
Later, I continued going to school part-time while working to complete my Bachelor's Degree in Nursing and subsequently my Master's Degree in Nursing – both awarded from the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. After graduation I then went on to obtain national board certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner.
After spending time on the Florida Gulf Coast in Pensacola, I moved to Greenville SC. Here I began working in a Level I University-Teaching Hospital, in the Emergency- Trauma Center. My work here includes being one of the lead providers on the ED Stroke Response Team, and Congestive Heart Failure/observation unit in the ED as well as seeing and treating patients in the main ED and Fast Track areas.
I've continued to work on my post-graduate education at Clemson University taking classes towards a Post-Master's Certificate in Nursing Education. This curriculum has included courses in educational needs assessments and testing & evaluation design and principles.
I try to stay very involved in my professional organizations including the Emergency Nurses Association. In the ENA I've served as local chapter president, vice-president and secretary. I also SAT on the South Carolina EMS Advisory Council as a representative of the ENA. I still continue to work part-time as a Paramedic for the local EMS service.
Lastly I am a member of the South Carolina Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) under direction of the US. Department of Health & Human Services and the National Disaster Medical Service (NDMS) as an intermittent federal employee.
I am also an active member of Nursing's National Honor Society: Sigma Theta Tau, since being inducted as a community nursing leader in 2004. I teach many classes in Emergency and Critical Care as well as EMS. Currently I am a credentialed First Aid, BLS and ACLS instructor under the American Heart Association. I am also credentialed as an instructor, director, and faculty for the ENA's Trauma Nursing (TNCC) and Emergency Pediatric Nursing (ENPC) courses. I have earned all four BCEN credentials: the Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN), Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN), Certified Transport Registered Nurse (CTRN),and Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse (CPEN). I am one of only four people it the US to hold all four of these - and the only one still full time at the patient bedside.
I have also been a guest speaker and presenter at conferences and seminars throughout the South Eastern region.
