Registered nurse Pat Carroll has been called "America's Nurse" and  "Heloise on Health." Her warm, engaging style has been featured on television and radio, including CNN Headline News, Fox News Channel, The VIEW, and dozens of local news programs nationwide. Her PBS special “Hints for Health: A Nurse’s Notebook” made its national debut in August of 2004 and she won a Golden Lamp Award from the Center for Nursing Advocacy in 2003 for providing one of the best media portrayals of nursing.
 

Pat’s latest book, What Nurses Know and Doctors Don’t Have Time to Tell You (Perigee Books/Penguin Group, Inc.) lets you bring Pat’s authoritative but always commonsense advice into your home. A home health guide designed to provide readers with up-to-date, practical information about the everyday challenges we all face, Publisher’s Weekly said the book was “accessible, friendly and easy-to-understand — just as a one might hope a good nurse would be.”
 

Pat Carroll began her career as a respiratory therapist, a graduate of Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. She returned to school to become a registered nurse, and is a proud alumna of Excelsior College School of Nursing based in Albany, NY, the largest nursing school in the United States. Pat was a charter member of the Tau Kappa Chapter of the international honor society for nurses, Sigma Theta Tau at Excelsior. The school named her one of 30 "exceptional graduates" of 100,000 to celebrate the school's 30th anniversary. She has additional degrees in education and nursing.

Most recently, Pat has maintained a clinical practice as the volunteer health coordinator for the homeless shelter in her community, and is now the Quality Management Coordinator for Franciscan Home Care and Hospice Care in Connecticut. She has extensive experience in ER nursing, critical care, home care and traditional in-patient hospital care of adults and children. She's board certified as a registered respiratory therapist and in general nursing, emergency nursing and nursing professional development.

Known for her entertaining style, Pat is a sought-after speaker for professional and community education programs. Pat published her first article in a professional journal twenty-five years ago. Little did she know that would lead her to a career publishing nearly 200 professional articles along with two award-winning textbooks. What Nurses Know and Doctors Don't Have Time to Tell You is the culmination of a dream -- Pat sees it as the ultimate patient education opportunity.