Ruth Knight - Pagac
B.S.N., RN, CCRN

Deer Park, WA

Specialties

Acute Care, Ambulatory Care, Educational/Research, Emergency/Trauma, Hospice / Palliative, Telemetry, Critical Care, Cardiology, Geriatrics, Holistic Nursing, Orthopedics, Pain Management, Pulmonary, Womens Health, Wound Care, School Health, Urgent Care, Pediatrics, Family, Management/Admin/Leadership, Professional Development, Infection Control / Infectious Disease

Details

Professional Achievements:

CCRN since July 1992.

Past CEN-expired 1999.

Inland Northwest Chapter Member, assist with Certification Celebration planning, Symposium planning, recruit speakers and vendors for Symposium. Facilitate communication between Critical Care and Emergency Nurses throughout Washington State.

Volunteer with Inland NW Honor Flight as medical staff and guardian.

Volunteer with various camps, teams, and school groups, as camp nurse, sports medicine nurse.

AACN Ambassador since 2009.

Volunteer with Hoopfest-Medical/Coaching

Camp Nursing , athletic training nursing, taking basketball teams overseas with NBC Camps-20 years, working basketball camps in WA, OR, AK, MT and Canada for 20 years. Volunteered as camp nurse at variety of other camps around Inland Northwest.

Attending various professional symposiums with AACN (American Association of Critical Care Nurses), WA ENA meetings, classes and symposiums.

Favorite Thing About My Profession:

The flexibility to care for patients , community and family. The variety , ebb and flow of Emergency Nursing . The ability to help plan sympsoiums, classes to encourage and educate myself and fellow nurses.

Virtues:

Genuine. Hard Working. Loyal. Diligent. Humoristic. Encouraging. Soothing. Perserverant.

Work History

Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Chewelah, WA
Administrative House Supervisor — March, 2022 to present

Deer Park School Distrist in Deer Park, WA
Substitute school nurse for district — August, 2020 to present

Providence Sacred Heart Med Center (Organization)-Emergency Department in Spokane
Current -staff, triage, trauma, resourse in ED , past ICU/CCU/short stay surgery — February, 1991 to September, 2021

Cascade Nursing Services in Bellevue, WA
RN- ED/ICU/CCU — May, 1989 to June, 1991

Virginia Mason in Seattle, WA
ICU/ CCU staff RN — January, 1988 to March, 1990

Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, WA
tele-medicine floor/ Cardiac Electrophysiology patients. night charge, house code team — October, 1985 to August, 1988

NBC CAMPS (Northwest Basketball Camp) in Spokane
1981-2000: basketball coach/camp nurse/associate athletic trainer, Canadian Camp staff-1989-2000, tour team interview-tour team medical provider/administrator -Australia 1987, Great Britain-1989,1991. WA, OR , MT, AK, CANADA camp sites — June, 1981 to August, 2000