Karen Buley, RN, BSN has been a nurse for thirty-three years and continues to care for new families and their babies in Missoula, Montana. She has worked in hospitals, in a physicians' office, for the American Red Cross, and she taught Lamaze classes for sixteen years.

Her publishing credits include American Nurse Today, A Cup of Comfort for Nurses, Directions in Nursing, Family Circle, Holiday Voices, mamalode, the Missoulian, Montana Voices, Nursing Made Incredibly Easy, and Story Circle Journal. Since publication of Nurses on the Run, Karen has become a contributor to Working Nurse and to www.nursetogether.com.

Karen credits her roots to Butte, America, birthplace of her parents and her home throughout most of her childhood. She enjoys reading, writing, hiking, and volunteer work. In December, 2010 she, along with her husband Rich and sons Eric and Colin, scaled Roraima tepui in Venezuela. Eric, a 2010 Pacific Lutheran University graduate, works for City Year in San Antonio, Texas; Colin is majoring in math and minoring in economics at Seattle University. Karen lives by her motto, "You can't win if you don't try."

To read some of Karen's recent work, please visit:

http://www.nursetogether.com/tabid/100/itemid/1920/From-Baby-Monitors-to-Cell-Phones-A-NurseMother.aspx

http://www.nursetogether.com/tabid/102/itemid/1953/Nursing-Inspiration-Our-Stories-Become-Their-Stor.aspx

A Message to Readers:

During a 2005 childbirth conference, the keynote speaker, while discussing the nursing shortage, asked, “Who will answer the call lights?” That question planted the seed for Nurses on the Run~Why They Come, Why They Stay. My goal in compiling this book was four-fold: to encourage others to become nurses, to inspire practicing nurses to remain active in their professions, to offer suggestions to help remedy the nursing shortage, and to lessen the guilt of my planned 2008 exodus.

I hoped for stories from nurses young and old, new and veteran, men and women, American-born and foreign-born, hospital-employed and community-employed; and I planned to include information about the nursing shortage with words of hope for the future.

Stories arrived in my inbox. Stories that touched my heart, made me laugh, made me cry, and made me proud to be a nurse. And that seed, planted in October, 2005 flourished into more than I’d envisioned, with an unexpected result. I would not accomplish my fourth goal. Because what I hadn’t anticipated was that, prior to publication, the stories would inspire one nurse to continue her nursing career. Me.

Book Signings, Discussions, Interviews and Readings

Friday, February 17, 2012

8:45 A.M.

Health Sciences II

Sentinel High School

Missoula, MT

Monday, September 12, 2011

12:00-2:00 P.M.

Mary's Book Club

Swan Lake, MT

Saturday, May 7, 2011

12:00-2:00 P.M.

Montana Book & Toy Company

331 N. Last Chance Gulch

Helena, MT

Friday, May 6, 2011

12:00 P.M.

Community Home Care Association Luncheon

Saint Peter's Hospital-123 Rooms

2475 Broadway

Helena, MT

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Independent Record

Helena, MT

http://helenair.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/committed-to-nursing/article_88a4e552-708e-11e0-9643-001cc4c03286.html

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

8:40 A.M.

Intro to Health Care Occupations Class

Sentinel High School

Missoula, MT

Saturday, December 4, 2010

2:30-4:00 P.M.

"Author Extravaganza"

Fact & Fiction Downtown

220 North Higgins Avenue

Missoula, MT

http://factandfictionbooks.com/event/2010/12/04/day

Thursday, November 18, 2010

4:30 P.M.

"From Novice to Expert" Panel Discussion

Montana State University College of Nursing-Missoula Campus

Missoula, MT

Monday, October 25, 2010

10:30 A.M.

Learning Communities

Truckee Meadows Community College

Reno, NV

Friday, October 15, 2010

12:00 P.M.

Transitions in Nursing Class

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Las Vegas, NV

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

8:45 A.M.                                                                                   

Health Care Foundations Classes                                                    

Sentinel High School                                                                     

Missoula, MT  

Thursday & Friday, October 7-8, 2010

7:00 A.M.

20th Annual Rocky Mountain Childbirth Conference

Holiday Inn Downtown at the Park

200 South Pattee

Missoula, MT

Saturday, August 14, 2010

12:00 P.M.

An Ri Ra Festival

Butte Archives-17 W. Quartz Street

Butte, MT

http://www.mtgaelic.org/Festival1.html

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

7:00 P.M.

Fact & Fiction Downtown

220 North Higgins Avenue

Missoula, MT

http://www.factandfictionbooks.com/event/karen-buley

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

6:00-7:30 P.M.

Spirit of Women Book Club

MSU Extension Meeting Room

1807 3rd Street NW (back side of Westgate Mall)

Great Falls, MT

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

KRTV 5:30 News

Great Falls, MT

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

2:00-4:00 P.M.

Hastings

726 10th Avenue South

Great Falls, MT

Friday, June 4, 2010

7:00 P.M.

Chapter One Book Store

252 West Main Street

Hamilton, MT

Thursday, April 29, 2010 

7:00 P.M.

University of Montana

Gallagher Business Building-Room 123

Missoula, MT 

Friday, March 19, 2010                                                                   

7:50 A.M.                                                                                   

Health Care Foundations Classes                                                    

Sentinel High School                                                                     

Missoula, MT