
Mr. Terry M. Foster MSN, RN, CCRN, TCRN, CPEN, CEN, FAEN
Critical-Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, Emergency Departments, St. Elizabeth Medical Center
Terry M. Foster, MSN, RN, CCRN, TCRN, CPEN, CEN, FAEN
Terry has authored more than 40 professional publications in various textbooks, nursing, and healthcare journals and has lectured on a wide variety of clinical topics at nursing conferences throughout the USA. Nationally he is a well known and sought after speaker on nursing humor, as well as clinical topics on critical-care and emergency nursing. Terry has been the recipient of the Judith Kelleher award, which is the highest award, given by the ENA and he was inducted as a Fellow into the Academy of Emergency Nursing. Over the past eight years, Terry has been featured in nine episodes of The Learning Channels (TLC) national TV program “Untold Stories of the ER.” He is the first RN to ever be featured on this physician only based television show. Since 1998, Terry has been the Critical-Care Clinical Nurse Specialist in the six Emergency Departments at St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Edgewood, Kentucky. In June, 2017, Terry was promoted to the dual role of 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 five-hospital system since 1975.