Andy Gomez
Registered Nurse | Emergency Department Charge Nurse
Andy Gomez is an emergency department nurse and charge nurse at a Level II Trauma Center in metropolitan Atlanta, with 13 years of nursing experience spanning critical care, emergency medicine, and trauma care.
Born in Nicaragua and raised primarily in Miami, Andy joined the United States Army and became a medic. From 2007 to 2008, he deployed to Iraq for 15 months supporting combat forces and treating patients in an environment very different from civilian medicine.
His experience as an Army medic ultimately led him into nursing. He began his nursing career in the intensive care unit, where he spent five years caring for critically ill patients. For the past eight years, he has worked in emergency medicine, managing high-acuity medical, trauma, and resuscitation cases.
Andy holds both the CCRN, Critical Care Registered Nurse, and CEN, Certified Emergency Nurse, credentials, reflecting his dedication and experience across both critical care and emergency nursing.
Today, in addition to direct patient care, Andy serves as a charge nurse with responsibilities that include patient flow, staffing, communication, resource allocation, and coordination across a busy emergency department.
His background spans military medicine, intensive care, emergency nursing, and trauma care. Having treated patients both in combat and in a metropolitan trauma center, Andy brings a perspective shaped by very different clinical environments.
His experience also gives him a strong understanding of the EMS-to-ED transition and the importance of the assessments, observations, interventions, and clinical decisions made by paramedics before a patient ever reaches the hospital.
