LITTLE ROCK AIR FORCE BASE, Ark. -- Name and Rank: Maj. Shannon Early-Rice
Unit: 19th Medical Group
Official Duty title: Education and Training Flight commander
Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia
Time in service: 12 years
Time at Little Rock: 1 year, 10 months
Goals: Obtain a Doctorate of Nursing Practice, become a formal training instructor and chief nurse
Hobbies: Fishing, bowling and spending time with family
How did they contribute/sustain ops amidst the COVID pandemic?
Early-Rice provides high-quality care to patients as the registered nurse, charge nurse in the drive-thru triage line. She leads and oversees the medical technicians who perform COVID-19 testing, she carefully reviews the COVID-19 triage forms to ensure patients who are coming through have been thoroughly assessed. She works closely with the COVID-19 provider to ensure correct medications have been entered and ordered for patients if required and patient education is provided to each patient prior to departure from the drive-thru triage line.