Not Every Nurse Works in a Hospital – Susan Parda-Watters, DNP, MMOAS, MSN, APRN/ACNS-BC, CMSRN, Board Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist, Ret Lt Col United States Air Force, Chief Flight Nurse

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This episode features Susan Parda-Watters, DNP, MMOAS, MSN, APRN/ACNS-BC, CMSRN, discussing learning to be a leader, the reality of being a military flight nurse, and the alphabet soup of her credentials. 

Dr. Parda-Watters is a global leader with extensive experience as an Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist and in expeditionary command and control leadership. She is a board-certified Clinical Nurse Specialist and a retired Lieutenant Colonel with over 20 years of active-duty service and 31 years of nursing expertise in aeromedical evacuation/flight nursing, aerospace physiology transport, critical care, emergency/trauma response, planning and coordination, hyperbaric, and psychiatric medicine. Her exposures and opportunities as a nurse built her up and prepared her to be where she is today, and she is currently a member of a USF research team as an Advanced Practice Provider.  

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