Background
Blissitt, Patricia Ann was born on September 23, 1953 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of Dewitt Talmadge and Imogene (Bailey) Blissitt.
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Patricia Ann Blissitt
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of science in nursing with high honors, U. Tennessee, 1976; MSN, U. Tennessee, 1985; postgraduate, U. Washington, since 1996.
Career
Staff nurse neuroscience unit, City of Memphis Hospital, 1976-1978; head nurse neuroscience unit, City of Memphis Hospital, 1978-1979; physician's assistant, Doctor John D. Wilson, Columbus, Mississippi, 1979-1981; staff nurse medical-surgical-trauma Intensive Care Unit, U. Tennessee Memorial Hospital, Knoxville, 1982-1983; staff nurse neuroscience Intensive Care Unit, Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, 1985-1986; clinical nurse specialist neuroscience, Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, 1986-1994; trauma coordinator, Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, 1991-1993; neuro case manager, Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, 1993-1994; staff nurse neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, since 1994. Nurse consultant neuroscience Veterans Administration Hospital., Memphis, 1986. Member of advisory committee Tennessee Board Nursing Practice.
Achievements
Membership
Member ANA (member county medical-surgical nurses, member county clinical nurse specialists), American Association Neurosci. Nurses (certified neuroscience nurse, president local chapter 1989-1990, treasurer local chapter 1987-1989, member neuroscience nursing test development committee American Board Neurosci. Nursing since 1996, national lecturer, member and chair resource development committee, member continuing education/annual science program committee, program/seminar chairperson local chapter 1990-1993, member nurse practice committee, chairperson patient education project 1991-1992, member program/seminar committee, program/seminar chairperson mid-South chapter 1990-1993, chairperson national resource development committee 1992-1994, president local chapter 1995-1998,editor local chapter newsletter since 1998), AACN (life, certified critical care nurse, lecturer, member CCRN corporation examination development committee 1989-1992, NTI Speaker.1992, editorial consultant board 1990-1992, president-elect Greater Memphis area chapter 1989-1990, president 1990-1991, immediate past president, chairperson national critical care awareness week 1990-1993, chapter consultant Region II 1991-1993, Chapter of year committee chairperson 1992-1994, chairperson-elect Puget Sound chapter program 1995-1996, chairperson program committee 1996-1997, editor elect newsletter Puget Sound chapter 1997-1998, member program committee since 1997, newsletter editor Puget Sound chapter since 1998), American Association Spinal Cord Injury Nurses, Washington Nurses Association, Tennessee Nurses Association (member commission on practice 1992-1993), Tennessee Nursing Congress (president 1990-1994), American Association Neurological Surgeons (associate), Western Institute Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau.
