I’m Aware That I’m Rare: Emma Olson Jackson, MS, ARNP (342)

The phaware® interview

Emma Olson Jackson is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at Seattle Children’s Hospital. In this episode, she discusses her history in helping develop pediatric pulmonary hypertension programs across three different specialty centers. Emma also discusses the challenges that pediatric programs face in treating this disease.

My name’s Emma Olson Jackson, and I am a pediatric nurse practitioner in pulmonary hypertension here at Seattle Children’s Hospital in the heart center. I’ve been a pediatric pulmonary hypertension nurse practitioner since 2012, where I started at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, developed that program there, and I was there almost four years and then I moved up to Portland, Oregon and was at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, which is an affiliate of OHSU Medical Center, and did pulmonary hypertension there, and now I’m at Seattle Children’s.

I was a bedside nurse before I was a nurse practitioner in the cardiac ICU at UCSF, and I knew Jeff Fineman, MD really well. When I was finishing my…