Susan Budassi Sheehy, PhD, RN, FAEN, FAAN

Dr. Sheehy received a BS and PhD in Nursing from Boston College, an MSN in

Cardiovascular Nursing from the Catholic University of America, and an MS in Health Policy

and Clinical Outcomes Research from Dartmouth College. Her background is in emergency/

trauma/flight nursing, combat casualty care, spinal cord injuries, Military and Veterans’ health

and wellness, process improvement, and evidence-based practice. She served on active duty in

the US Army Nurse Corps, as a flight nurse in the US Air Force Reserves, and as a professor

at the US DoD’s Uniformed Services University Daniel K Inouye Graduate School of Nursing

and the F Hebert School of Medicine in Bethesda, MD where she received the Dean’s Award

for Outstanding Teaching, the Daisy Outstanding Faculty Award and was named the USU

Graduation Class Marshall (selected by her students). In 2020 she was named Honorary

Commander of the Delaware National Guard. 

She is a past president of the Emergency Nurses Association and the Emergency Nursing Foundation.

ENA honored her with a Lifetime Achievement Award and the Judith Kelleher Award. She is a

Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the Academy of Emergency Nursing. Author

of over 80 journal articles and the author/editor of 12 editions of Emergency Nursing

Textbooks, she has presented and continues to present statewide, nationally, and internationally.

She and her therapy dog Abby are frequent visitors to healthcare facilities and community events

throughout Delaware and southern Pennsylvania.