b'ELITEHEALTH GUIDE|complete. At the time, you had to mail things.different regions, they come with differentident) Susan Stone told me Julie, you remind I would take my proctored tests at the localexperiences. Professionally, their support andme of myself, Julie remembered, and that library. It was a lot more cumbersome that way,mentoring allowed me to move up quickly. made me feel like I could do it. To this day, shes but everything went much quicker too. The only reason she left Frontier was beinginvested in my career. Shes nominated me for When it came time to complete clinicals,offered the full-time position shed so longnational committees, and Ive reached out to Julie was assigned a regional coordinator as adesired as co-director of the Midwifery pro- her for references. She was my mentor when mentor who helped her through the process.gram at South Shore Hospitalwhere she stillI went for my fellowship with the American By the time she returned for her doctorate,works today. College of Nurse-Midwives.things had evolved, and Julie was able to sub- But Julie was by no means finishedwhenThrough three separate educational expe-mit papers and take exams online.she immersed herself full-time at South Shore,riences, a teaching career, and into her Just as Julie was about to complete her doc- she realized she had few resources for herprofessional life, Julie says shes never felt dis-torate, tragedy struck repeatedly, as her nine- patients who underwent postpartum screen- connected from Frontier.year-old nephew passed away within weeks ofings. She decided shed return to school for herThere were a lot of options for pro-a patient dying in childbirth. These things arePsychiatric-Mental health NP. It wont takegrams when I went for my doctorate or my obviously very traumatic, she explained. Soyou long to guess where she turned.Psychiatric-Mental Health NP, Julie summa-when they came to me with this opportunity, aThat was my third trip back to Frontier,rized, but I feel like Frontier offers a really change sounded pretty good at the time. she said. Within six months of graduating, Istrong educational experience and amazing Even now, when shes returned to full-timewas able to open up a hospital-based clinicasupport. Despite the distance, you feel like hospital work, Julie says she wouldnt tradebrand-new service at the hospital. youre part of something bigger.nher teaching experience with Frontier for any- Even today, Julie maintains strong relation-thing. Working with the people at Frontierships with a number of the faculty members atTo learn more about the Nurse-Midwifery was amazing, and the instructors at FrontierFrontier Nursing University.program at Frontier, visit https://frontier.edu/are so welcoming, she said. They come fromMy very first day on campus, (Frontier pres- nurse-midwife/Believe.Begin.Become. Become a leader in healthcare. Offering masters and doctoral degrees for nurses. Specialties OfferedNurse-Midwife|Family Nurse PractitionerLearn more at:Womens Health Care NP|Psychiatric-Mental Health NP frontier.edu/elite8 ELITEHEALTH GUIDE|2019| www.elitecme.com'