Jessie Westin, BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN, CPEN

ED/ICU Clinical Educator

Providence Alaska Medical Center

I have worked in the Providence Emergency Department as a nurse for over 10 years and I’ve been teaching ENPC and TNCC for the last seven years. My passion has always been education going back to my time before nursing as a fly fishing guide and through my prehospital medical career as an EMT (including as a medic on the set of the movie “Big Miracle”) and a Ski Patroller. I am so glad to have had opportunities to meet students from all over the state of Alaska and look forward to teaching more classes outside of my current role. 

Fun fact: My Dad wrote a book about my growing up in the Alaska Bush (near Skwentna) where we flew in a small bush plane to Anchorage once a year to get groceries (Planes, Bears, and the Turkey Bomber available on Amazon). Out there, my family owned and operated a wilderness camp for kids and families where we were able to teach fire starting, tree climbing, canoe racing, geocaching, shelter building, etc. A pretty neat childhood. 

Also fun fact: I have water skied behind a Cessna 185 on floats and survived! (Looks cool but is VERY fast and you smell like aviation fuel after:)