Shawntay Harris, MSN, MHA, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, NE-BC, CEN, CPEN, CFRN, CTRN, TCRN

Shawntay Harris’s enduring and substantial contributions to emergency nursing are in education and leadership. Harris demonstrates ingenuity of the entrepreneurial spirit as a professional influencer via multiple domains. In her moderator role with the Black Nurses Rock Facebook group, she disseminates information to a community of 202,000 nurses who might need access to scholarships, research opportunities and networking events. The group provides peer support, clinical knowledge exchange and discussion among Black nurses around the world. Harris leverages this group, as well as other social media platforms, to reach and support historically excluded nurses. In furtherance of promoting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, Harris has authored and presented on DEI and parallel human resources essentials at state and national levels. Separately, she is the Founder and CEO of an education company that has reached more than 240,000 nurses worldwide, training approximately 30,000 nurse leaders/executives in the past two years. Harris strives to inspire greatness at all levels of emergency nursing practice. She is currently the founder, president and CEO of Eminent Healthcare Resources Consultants, Inc.