Ask Every Patient: Have You Ever Served in the Military?

Have You Every Served is  an awareness initiative to improve Veterans’ health… knowing where and when someone served and what they did when they served may help to identify an etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and VA assistance.  With more Veterans receiving care outside of the VA system, knowing what to ask and how to ask it is vital. 

BIO: Susan (Sue) Sheehy, PhD, RN, FAEN, FAAN

Dr.  Sheehy joined the University of Delaware School of Nursing faculty in August 2018. She is also an adjunct professor at the Daniel K Inouye Graduate School of Nursing and the F Hebert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.

She is a Veteran of the US Army Nurse Corps (active duty) and the US Air Force Flight Nurses (Reserves). Her current program of research at UD, VCAT, focuses on Post 9-11 Veterans’ wellness. Dr. Sheehy’s areas of expertise are emergency and trauma nursing, military combat trauma care, military veterans ‘wellness, and evidence-based practice. Dr. Sheehy has played instrumental roles in trauma systems development in the states of Washington, Maine, and New Hampshire. She developed and taught the Trauma Nursing Course for the African Peacekeeping Rapid Response Program/US Army AFRICOM in Uganda and Rwanda.

Dr. Sheehy is a past president of the Emergency Nurses Association, the Emergency Nursing Foundation, and currently serves as the lead co-chair of the American Academy of Nursing’s Military and Veterans Expert Panel. She is the author/editor of twelve editions of Sheehy’s Emergency Nursing: Principles and Practice, Sheehy’s Manual of Emergency Care, and Manual of Clinical Trauma Care: The First Hour, and more than 80 journal articles. She served on the Journal of Emergency Nursing Editorial Board for more than 20 years.