About
Vanessa Gorman, MSN, RN, CCRN, FAEN, FCENA, is the 2026 ENA secretary/treasurer and is in her fifth year as a member of the Emergency Nurses Association Board of Directors.
In addition to her board service, which included a one-year term in 2022, she has volunteered on ENA’s Global Advisory Committee – formerly known as the International Advisory Council – since 2015 and joined the ED Leadership Committee in 2023.
Gorman was born and resides in Melbourne, Australia, and remains an active member in CENA, the Australian equivalent of ENA. Over her 30 years working in emergency nursing across many facilities, including tertiary centers and metropolitan hospital settings, she has held a variety of positions such as staff nurse, nurse educator, nurse manager and state trauma manager. In 2020, she joined the statewide COVID-19 response as a senior operations manager.
Gorman is currently the appointed director of regional operations for the statewide ambulance service in Victoria, Australia, which provides more than one million points of care every year. Her extensive experience in operational leadership and emergency nursing has been translational skills that she now applies to the pre-hospital setting. She remains committed to bedside nursing and is a credentialled and accredited ED nurse working in urgent care.
She joined ENA in the mid-2000s and, after a short lapse in membership, rejoined in 2015 when she was looking to work with like-minded people around the world. Her active involvement with the Global Advisory Committee included her serving as the chair in 2019 and 2020. Her contributions to ENA’s annual conference include trauma education delivery and education. She is a strong advocate for international collaboration and empowering emergency nurses globally.
Gorman completed her bachelor’s degree nursing program in Melbourne, Australia, and went on to earn a graduate diploma in emergency nursing, graduate diploma in health services management and a master’s degree in specialty nursing. She has commenced her DNP-Executive Leadership as she continues her professional education journey. An accredited international trauma coder, Gorman also currently holds ACLS certification and TNCC verification.
To reach Vanessa, please contact her at vanessa.gorman@ena.org.
Leadership
Secretary/Treasurer:
January 2026-December 2026
Director:
March 2023-December 2025
January 2022-December 2022