This episode of BCEN and Friends lets you meet our friend Ed Hunt.

Ed Hunt is an BCEN certified nurse working in the ER in Southwest Washington State.

Ed currently works at two hospitals - one tiny 6 bed ER in a coastal tourist town and the other a big 44 bed ER in a metro area.

Nursing is a second career for Ed – for 14 years he was a newspaper reporter and early pioneer of on-line journalism in the late 1990s and early 2000s. After 9/11, however, he joined his local fire department and became a firefighter and EMT.

While training to be an EMT he fell in love with Emergency Nursing. Ed says that emergency nursing is “instant gratification nursing, people come in, you figure out what’s wrong and get them feeling better.”  He is still writing - maintaining a monthly newspaper column up until the start of the pandemic and self-publishing books of his essays. You can also find his writing at Redtriage.com

Michael Dexter and Mark Eggers talk with Ed about going from radio/journalist to nursing. For 14 years he was a newspaper reporter. After 9/11 he joined his local fire department and became a firefighter and EMT and from there he began his life in the world of emergency nursing

This episode is called, From Radio to Nursing

Ed Hunt can be reached at redtraige.com and on Twitter @redtriage