Phone: 814-467-3628
Fax: 814-467-3655
600 Somerset Avenue
Windber PA, 15963 Orthopedic Walk-In Clinic
English
Maryville University
Orthopedics
1. What is your specialty?
I have a Masters of Science in Nursing. I am a board certified AANP Family Nurse Practitioner with a focus in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
2. Why did you want to become a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner (CRNP)?
Ever since I was a little girl, I knew I wanted a career in helping people either in medicine or as a teacher. In college, I started out majoring in business education with a minor in accounting and quickly discovered I had a stronger curiosity and desire to learn more about medicine. After my first semester, I changed my major to nursing and obtained a job as a nurse’s aide to gain experience. By working in numerous departments throughout the hospital as an aide and eventually a Registered Nurse, I developed an insatiable thirst for more knowledge of the medical field.
3. What is one aspect of the job that you find rewarding?
Patients come to the Orthopedic Walk-In Clinic due to an injury or chronic pain looking for guidance and treatment. I have the opportunity to review a patient’s history, interpret X-ray images, discuss a treatment plan, and see them follow through with the treatment plan to return to play or higher quality of life and function.
4. In your opinion, what’s the future of your field?
Orthopedics is progressive field with continual research. In orthopedic surgery, surgical techniques are being refined and becoming less invasive with the addition of robotics. Sports medicine has and will continue to change focus on prevention of injury.
5. What do you do to achieve work/life balance?
With my free time, I spend my time with my two young sons, husband and dogs. During the summer, we love to spend time outdoors camping, boating, and spending time with family and friends.
Selection of a health care provider is a personal choice. Most or all of the health care providers performing services in this Hospital are independent contractors who have privileges to practice at the Hospital but they are not Hospital employees, representatives or agents. This includes but is not limited to radiologists, pathologists, emergency physicians, anesthesiologists, hospitalists, surgeons and others. Independent contractors are responsible for their own actions and the Hospital is not liable for the acts or omissions of any such independent contractors.
If understanding the relationship between your Health Care Provider and this Hospital is important to you, you may ask your Health Care Provider.