IB Emergency Nurse to Receive Achievement Award

Imperial Beach resident Karen “Sue” Hoyt, a leader in advanced emergency nursing care, will be honored by the University of San Diego on April 27.

Hoyt, an emergency nurse practitioner, editor and co-owner of EmergeED, a firm specializing in education and consulting for emergency and urgent care nurses, will receive the Author E. Hughes Award for Career Achievement.

Hoyt earned her PhD in nursing from USD in 2006 and has expanded and developed the nurse practitioner role in emergency care. She also recently conceptualized and implemented a two-day course for ENPs.

Hoyt served as co-editor of the Emergency Nurses Association’s Trauma Nursing Core Course, which has been taught worldwide to more than 500,000 nurses. After her term as president of the association, she co-edited the Emergency Nursing Core Curriculum, the official publication for the association and its 40,000 members. In 2006, she established the first Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, a peer-reviewed publication read worldwide.

Her cumulative work led to the recognition of emergency nursing as a specialty by the American Nurses Association in 2011.

As a leader in health care policy, Hoyt also provided testimony to Congress, resulting in a 1999 law mandating that “911” serve as the emergency number for both land and non-land line phones. 

“Victims of emergencies everywhere have benefited from Sue’s impressive and groundbreaking work in the field,” said Sally B. Hardin, dean of USD’s Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science. “She truly exemplifies USD’s mission of excellence and service and we are very proud to honor her.”

Hoyt and her husband, Kenneth, have three grown sons.

The 18th Annual Alumni Honors celebration on April 27 will recognize nine outstanding University of San Diego alumni for career achievement, contributions to humanitarian causes, extraordinary athletic success and exemplary service to USD. The cocktail-attire event begins at 6 p.m. with the awards ceremony in the Joan B. Kroc Institute of Peace & Justice, followed by a gourmet soiree and live music under the stars. Tickets are $75 per person and can be purchased at www.sandiego.edu/alumnihonors or by calling (619) 260-7889.

This press release was written by the University of San Diego Office of Media Relations.