Gwenny Winkler is an EMS Educator who sprouted her roots in the ER and HEMS. She believes learning should be fun and lives for those aha! moments when her students come alive with curiosity and a hunger for growth. In the classroom, she’s known for unconventional teaching methods to help students understand the why of topics and not just the what. It’s not uncommon for her to hold a handstand for 2 minutes while discussing how perfusion follows gravity.

Frequently called “intense,” for her fast-paced and loud persona, Gwenny's ability to slow it down to connect with patients to treat their humanity along with their pathology is her superpower. Bedside nursing fulfills her, which is why she maintains PRN status on the helicopter and in the ED in addition to her work as a full time educator.

When she’s not in the ED, a helicopter, or the classroom, she enjoys destroying her opponents at pickle ball and cooking exorbitant amounts of food. Her husband and five children are the light of her life, but those kids and their mountains of laundry exhaust her to no end. Gwenny is a connoisseur of Diet Coke (can, fountain, bottle) and her blood type is Torchy’s queso.

Professional Biography:

BA Psychology, McKendree University, 2006

BSN, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2014

CFRN (Certified Flight Nurse, BCEN)

CTRN (Certified Transport Nurse, BCEN)

CCRN (Critical Care Nurse, AACN)