Ms. Enos is a certified occupational health nurse and certified professional ergonomist with over 30 years of work and consulting experience in industrial and health care ergonomics and safety with over 200 companies nationwide. She holds an undergraduate degree in nursing and a graduate degree in human factors/ergonomics from the University of Idaho.
Work experience includes consultation in safe patient handling and mobility (SPHM) and ergonomics for over 40 hospital systems, clinics, assisted living facilities, and home health and hospice services. Assistance includes development, facilitation, and evaluation of SPHM programs for several years per facility.
In 2017, Ms. Enos completed a 2-year project for the Oregon Association for Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS) that included helping 5 hospitals in Oregon to review their existing workplace violence prevention (WPV) programs and develop comprehensive program plans to address WPV.
Using lessons learned from this project and an extensive review of violence prevention literature, Ms. Enos developed a comprehensive toolkit for prevention violence in healthcare. The “Oregon Workplace Safety Initiative Workplace Violence in Healthcare: A Toolkit for Prevention and Management” was published in December 2017 and extensively updated in March 2020. The toolkit is available at
https://www.oahhs.org/safety
Ms. Enos has since worked with several state-based hospital associations to conduct in-person and virtual WPV prevention workshops that are based on the Oregon WPV toolkit, for numerous healthcare organizations.
In 2019, Ms. Enos assisted the Oregon State Stabilization and Crisis Unit (SACU) to further develop their WPV prevention program for 23 group homes for adults and children.
Ms. Enos is a subject matter expert for several regulatory and research entities including, the American Nurses Association, the International Standards Organization, and the Joint Commission.