Terry Foster

Terry M. Foster, MSN, RN, CEN, CPEN, CCRN, TCRN, FAEN, is the 2023 president of the Emergency Nurses Association. He is in his fifth year on the board.

Foster currently works as a critical-care clinical nurse specialist in the emergency departments at St. Elizabeth Healthcare, a Magnet-designated hospital, in northern Kentucky. He is an ambassador for the St. Elizabeth Foundation, having been continuously employed in this six-hospital system since 1975. He has worked as a volunteer, ward clerk, LPN, staff nurse, charge nurse, critical-care instructor, clinical director, and night supervisor at both the Mercy Hospitals of Cincinnati, Ohio, and at St. Elizabeth.

Foster started out as a volunteer in the emergency room at the age of 14 and knew he had found his home. At 19, he began his emergency nursing experience as an LPN. He joined the Emergency Department Nurses Association, as ENA was previously known, in the early 1980s. Since that time, Foster twice served as president of the Greater Cincinnati Chapter and on multiple committees at the local, state, and national levels. He has also served twice on the association’s Nominations and Elections Committee; is a previous recipient of the Judith C. Kelleher award; received the ENA Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to emergency nursing; and is a Fellow of the Academy of Emergency Nursing.