ADVANCED PRACTICE SKILLS WORKSHOP - Key Persons

Erica Evans, MSN, FNP-C graduated from the University of Cincinnati and has over 18 years of nursing experience. Her career has been spent in emergency departments, urgent care, and primary practice. She has worked at two magnet hospitals earning numerous magnet nurse and daisy awards. She has a passion for passing on her experience to others. She teaches suturing, foreign body removal, incision & drainage, and corneal abrasion/foreign bodies of the eye. She continues to work full time as a nurse practitioner allowing her to keep her clinical skills up to date.

Ethel Smith, MSN, FNP-C graduated from the University of Cincinnati and has over 19 years of nursing experience. Her career has been spent in family practice and pain management. As well as teaching in the classroom and clinical setting from ADN to MSN programs. She established onboarding programs for three employers to guide new nurse practitioners with on the job training. She continues to work in a busy pain management practice in Tampa, FL. She teaches various joint injections.