Professor Fichera earned her BSN from the University of Massachusetts and her MSN from the University of Phoenix. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society. Her academic experience consists of five years teaching in a nursing program. Her clinical area of expertise is in Emergency, Critical Care Nursing and Trauma. Her clinical experience includes mentoring and precepting nurses into the EMS system. She is an Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) instructor for the Merrimack Valley Consortium Hospitals and is the Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) provider. In addition to teaching at Endicott College Professor Fichera continues to work per diem as an cardiac nurse in a community hospital.