Elizabeth Freiling, RN
Elizabeth Freiling, RN, is a Team Leader at the Center for Medically Fragile Children at Providence Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Portland in 1980. Upon graduation, she worked as a neonatal intensive care nurse at Oregon Health Sciences University and as a NICU transport/Lifeflight nurse. She also worked as a Postpartum/Newborn nurse at St. Vincent's Hospital in Portland, Oregon. After a leave of absence to raise her six children, she began working six years ago with pediatric patients who are ventilator dependent. For the last two years, she has worked at CMFC, where she also precepts senior nursing students. She serves on the Comfort Care Committee and the Documentation Committee.