Paula Kobelt, DNP, RN-BC, is an Outcomes Manager for Pain Management and Complementary Therapies at OhioHealth Grant Medical Center (GMC), Columbus, Ohio. She is the recipient of the 2014 American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Nurse of the Year for her published research in Pain Management Nursing and Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing to prevent opioid-induced respiratory depression in the post anesthesia recovery unit, and contribution to national evidence-based practice recommendations. She is a member of the ANCC Pain Management Content Expert Panel. Paula helped to create the curriculum for an Addiction Medicine Fellowship and start an Addiction Medicine Consult Service at GMC. Her work on the Franklin County Opiate Task Force contributed to the community standards to ensure individuals seen in the Emergency Department (ED) with substance use disorder are treated with the same standard of care. She is currently a member of the Recovery and Community Engagement, and Prevention subcommittees of the Franklin County Opiate Action Plan. Paula volunteers at Safe Point/Equitas Health needle exchange program, and she provides community naloxone trainings sponsored by the Franklin County Public Health Department Paula received her Bachelors and Master's degrees in nursing from the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing and Health, a diploma in nursing at Good Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing and recently received a Doctorate of Nursing Practice from Otterbein University where her project work was a collaborative effort with the Ohio Attorney General's Office Heroin Task Force to provide education and naloxone to high risk ED patients prior to being discharged from the ED to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with the drug overdose death epidemic impacting our country, the state of Ohio and our communities.