About
Lauren Plaine, MPS, BSN, RN, CEN, is in her third year as a member of the Emergency Nurses Association Board of Directors.
Plaine is an emergency nurse focused on national-level guidance and strategic leadership as a consultant. Her work includes analysis of emerging threats to national security; emergency management planning, policy and training for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear agents and materials; and development of strategic guidance to reduce antimicrobial resistance. Previously, Plaine worked as a nurse stretcher side in a variety of settings including rural, free-standing and Level I trauma emergency departments.
She has been actively involved in the ENA at the local, state and association-wide levels. Plaine was the inaugural emerging professional liaison to the ENA Board of Directors in 2018. She’s also served on ENA’s Advocacy Advisory Council and Emergency Management and Preparedness Committee. With the Virginia ENA Council, Plaine held many leadership roles, including president-elect and secretary. At the local level in Virginia, she served as president and in other leadership positions.
Plaine received ENA’s 2020 Rising Star Award and was honored as part of the ENA Connection 20 Under 40 Class of 2021. She also has presented at many national conferences and as a guest speaker at Georgetown University.
Plaine earned her BSN from Old Dominion University and went on to complete her master’s degree in emergency and disaster management from Georgetown University. Her graduate research focused on Crisis Standards of Care within COVID-19, which was later published in the Journal of Emergency Management.
To reach Lauren, please contact her at lauren.plaine@board.ena.org.
Leadership
Director:
January 2024-December 2026