Parish Nurse
Susana Ertac, APRN-BC
Parish Nurse/Health Ministries
Susana earned both her BS in Nursing as well as her MS in Nursing at Georgetown University. For the past three years she has participated in the monthly Parish Nurse program with Hoag Department of Community Medicine. Her previous and work as a bedside nurse in intensive care, cardiac surgery and as a nurse practitioner at community clinics and in private practice have been good experiences towards her work as a Parish nurse. She has been a Registered Nurse for twenty years and a Nurse Practitioner for twelve years. She is a trained Community Emergency Response Team volunteer within Newport Beach and a County Mutual Aid Provider to volunteer with the City of Newport Beach Community Disaster Response during natural or other county-wide disasters. She has been a community volunteer in many other organizations, including Junior League, Girl Scouts, Saddleback Mothers of Multiples and the MOMS club. Newport Beach has long been home to Susana along with her husband of seventeen years and their eight-year-old fraternal twin girls. Her parents, Joan and Bill Torres, are also members of St. Matthew's.
