Sherry Shaffer Ratajczak has been a nurse for over forty years. She was a diploma-educated nurse in an intensive care unit, served in critical care settings for many years, and was a nurse manager of a neurosurgical ICU and a renal transplant unit. She completed a baccalaureate degree in nursing then a master’s degree in nursing management. She has worked in teaching, publishing, and has also worked as a primary care pediatric nurse practitioner.