Barbra Bachmeier, JD, MSN, APRN, NP-C, DF-AFN, FAEN
Barbra Bachmeier is a nurse practitioner and forensic nurse examiner at IU Health – Methodist Hospital and a solo attorney at Guardian Ad Litem and Guardianship Practice in Indianapolis, IN. She completed her clinical ethics fellowship in 2013 at Charles W. Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics - IU Health. Her nursing career began in 1982 as a licensed practical nurse at Trinity Medical Center in Minot, ND. From there, she has worked as a staff nurse, nurse practitioner, and forensic nurse examiner with several positions being held in emergency medicine departments. In 2015, she received the National ENA Nursing Practice and Professionalism Award from the National Emergency Nurses Association. Barb was inducted into the Fellow of Academy of Emergency Nursing in September 2018. Barb, along with 13 other forensic nurses in the US started a non-profit forensic nursing organization called the Academy of Forensic Nursing in 2018. www.academyofforensicnursing.org.
Barb retired from the US Army with 29 years of service in 2009.