Rapid Access Guide for Triage and Emergency Nurses

Lynn Sayre Visser, MSN, RN, PHN, CEN, CPEN, FAEN has devoted her 28 year career to emergency nursing, triage education, mentoring others, and writing about topics that impact nursing. Her career has been complemented by experience in prehospital care, ICUs, post-anesthesia care units, and as an organ procurement coordinator. Her passion for quality patient care led her to play instrumental roles in the implementation of a provider in triage, rapid triage assessment, and immediate bedding processes along with formalized triage education in multiple facilities. She is a change-agent and philanthropist and has been published in a variety of arenas. She is the co-author of Fast Facts for the Triage Nurse: An Orientation and Care Guide, Essentials for the Triage Nurse, Rapid Access Guide for Triage and Emergency Nurses, and Rapid Access Guide for Pediatric Emergency Nursing. Her work has been recognized with two American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year awards, the 2019 Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) Media Award, the 2021 ENA Team Award, as well as the 2019 Sigma Theta Tau Edith Moore Copeland Founders Award for excellence in creativity. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Nursing with an emphasis in education and a double Bachelor of Science degree in nursing and exercise physiology.