Patricia Bemis

Patricia (Touchette) Bemis, a nationally recognized authority on nurse entrepreneurship, died June 9, 2025, in Mountain Home AR, where she had resided for many years.

Pat was born April 11, 1938, in Claremont, N.H She married Leslie Warren Bemis in 1955, and they built a house on 42nd Street in Claremont. They welcomed their daughter, Darline, in 1957.

After receiving a nursing degree in California, Pat and Warren lived for many years in Florida, and then Arkansas, where Warren pursued agricultural activities, including chicken and beef ranching.

As a registered nurse, Pat specialized in emergency nursing, for which she became certified. She was president of the Space Coast chapter of the Emergency Nursing Assn. and president of the National Nurses in Business Assn. As a leader in the field of nurse entrepreneurship and an experienced national speaker on both clinical and nurse entrepreneurial issues, she wrote a monthly column in RN Magazine titled Nurse Biz.

Pat authored several books, including: Emergency Nursing Bible, (a peer-reviewed guidebook); Self-Employed RN: Choices, Business Aspects, and Marketing Strategies; and Nurse Entrepreneurs, Tales of Nurses in Business Additionally, she developed home-study courses on DVDs for RN self-employment, emergency nursing, and for the business side of legal nurse consulting. She traveled throughout the country teaching on-site classes for hospitals to prepare nurses to sit for the emergency nursing certification examination.

Additionally, Pat was an online instructor for the University of Florida for the Forensic Nursing Science Certificate Program, a program she designed. She also taught marketing for a legal nurse consulting course for the University of Central

Florida.

Pat leaves her sister and brother-in-law, Mary Jane and Frank Perrotta of New London, N.H., and several nieces and nephews, including Deborah Touchette of Henderson, AR, Christina Touchette of Flippin, AR and Laura Poslick of Willow Springs, MO. She was predeceased by her sister Frances in 2023.

Burial will be in Union Cemetery, Claremont, NH.

Arrangements are by Kirby and Family Funeral and Cremation Services - Mountain Home, Arkansas. Visit an online obituary and guestbook at www.kirbyandfamily.com.