About Nancy

Nancy Blake RN,PhD, CCRN, NEA-BC, FAAN, is chief nursing officer at Harbor UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. For more than 25 years she was director of critical care services at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Before that, she managed the hospital's pediatric ICU and emergency department. Nancy has been an active member of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN). She served as director on the national board of directors and as treasurer in 2006. She is past president of the Los Angeles AACN Chapter and has served AACN and other nursing organizations in many local and national volunteer roles. Nancy is a nationally recognized speaker on healthy work environments, leadership and management, and pediatric disaster preparedness with numerous publications on disaster preparedness and nurses' role in creating and sustaining healthy work environments. Nancy has participated in large grants and work groups to set standards for local, state, and federal pediatric disaster preparedness including a CDC work group that published in 2011 standards for pediatric critical care mass casualty published. She received a BSN from Mount Saint Mary’s College in Los Angeles, MN in Nursing Administration and PhD in nursing from UCLA. Her doctoral dissertation studied the relationship between healthy work environments and patient outcomes and nurse outcomes. She was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2013.