Julie Rossie, MS, RN, CNS, CCNS, CCRN, TCRN, is the assistant director of nursing clinical practice at Kaiser Permanente in California’s greater San Jose area with oversight in the emergency department, and ambulatory clinics on the main San Jose campus and four satellite clinics in the surrounding area. She is a graduate from the Critical Care/Trauma Clinical Nurse Specialist program at University of California San Francisco. Her clinical background includes critical care, emergency, and trauma nursing with over seventeen years as a clinical nurse specialist.
As the assistant director, she is responsible for performance improvement, quality assurance, maintenance of practice standards and identifying and interpreting clinician scope of practice in the outpatient environment. Additionally, she is the clinical consultant for the COVID-19 vaccine and testing programs in her service area.
She has been actively involved in ENA at the local, state and national levels. She is currently California ENA’s leadership and practice chair and is actively involved in General Assembly as a California delegate. She is passionate about the advanced practice role and involved in development of the emergency CNS competencies through ENA. She was involved in the beta testing of the BCEN trauma certification exam. Her interests include triage accuracy, emergency nursing quality measures, trauma and geriatric emergency care.