Jan Guthas Turner, MSN, RN, CEN, of Georgia

Behind the Scenes Award

Recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions behind the scenes to promote ENA’s mission of advancing excellence in emergency nursing; an ENA advocate who is often seen but not heard and donates countless hours to assist an ENA member or members in achieving local, state or national goals.

Jan Guthas Turner, a clinical field supervisor at Kennesaw State University Wellstar School of Nursing, has been a longtime ENA member and an active leader within the Georgia ENA State Council for more than three decades. Turner led the development and revision of Georgia ENA’s bylaws and policies to reflect the changes in ENA bylaws and policies. Additionally, she developed a semiannual TNCC and ENPC instructor newsletter, with the first issue distributed in May 2025. Turner has been a Georgia delegate to the ENA General Assembly 25 times, and she began a four-year term as the Georgia ENA Bylaw and Policy Committee chairperson in 2021. She was the state council president in 2008 and secretary from 2021–2024. She is also part of the state’s trauma, pediatric and education committees.