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Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
United States Navy
LCDR Sarah Bush is a Navy Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) with 15 years of critical care/emergency experience. From Franklin, Tennessee, she obtained her BSN in 2009 from Tennessee Technological University and commissioned into the Navy shortly after. She was assigned to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth where she worked as a Hematology/Oncology nurse, deployed to the Horn of Africa, and then worked in the PACU. She moved to Pensacola, Florida in 2012 where she worked as an ICU and PICC line nurse and also managed a tri-specialty surgical services clinic (ENT/Ophthalmology/Audiology) at the Naval Hospital. While there, she was selected as one of 20 critical care nurses DoD-wide to form the US Ebola Team. Additionally, she was deployed to the Syrian/Jordanian border with 2nd Medical Battalion as the senior nurse in support of coalition forces.
LCDR Bush then served as the Ship's Nurse onboard the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), in Japan. While onboard she was the 7th Fleet's only critical care asset and was responsibe for all medical training for an embarked crew of 6000. She also oversaw the 52-bed inpatient ward and 3-bed ICU, as well as responded to all medical emergencies and conducted all critical care medical evacuations off-ship during 2 deployments.
In 2017, she reported to Naval Medical Center San Diego where she worked as an ICU nurse then Division Officer of the ICU and COVID ICU. She deployed during this time to the NATO Role 3 in Kandahar, Aghanistan where she served as the MEDEVAC officer.
LCDR Bush was chosen by Navy Nursing to obtain her degree and certification as a CNS in 2020, which she completed at the University of Virginia in 2022. She now serves as the ICU CNS at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, NC.