Rachel Patterson

This licensed registered nurse has been in her field for over 35 years. She trained at Bloomsbury School of Nursing at Middlesex Hospital in London, England where she also worked as a primary clinical nurse. She then came to the United States and worked as a primary care nurse and endoscopy staff nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital, a charge nurse and PRN staff nurse at Swedish Medical Center, and a hospice staff nurse at Porter Hospice. She has also been a night charge nurse and GI lab charge nurse at St. Anthony's Central Hospital, and finally a clinical charge nurse in endoscopy at Tacoma Digestive Disease Center. She is currently a hospice patient care coordinator at a hospice in WA, and she has a total of over 15 years of hospice nursing experience.