Practicing clinically as a bedside ICU and ED nurse for the Veteran’s Health Administration. She also travels the country as a sought after speaker for certification review courses and various clinical and leadership topics, and is a freelance Legal Nurse Consultant. Cline has over 12 years of experience in Med/Surg, Cardiac, Emergency, Critical Care, Forensic, and Flight Nursing and has served as a bedside nurse, charge nurse, and clinical educator. In 2015, she was recognized as the Distinguished CPEN by the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing for her dedication to professional certification and was recognized by her Health System in 2017 for Exemplary Professional Practice.
She is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Emergency Nurses Association, the CECH Committee for the Air and Surface Transport Nurses Association, and the Editorial Review Board of the Air Medical Journal. She has bylines as a textbook and review book author as well as a contributor to several academic journals, and has been featured on Monster.com and The Art of Emergency Nursing Podcast. Cline is known for her down to earth and irreverent lecture style that is grounded in evidence-based practice and based on her extensive clinical experiences. She is passionate about empowering and inspiring clinicians to achieve excellence in their practice while providing them with practical clinical tools that will elevate their care to the next level.