A registered nurse with over 16 years nursing experience in a level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Experience includes serving in the roles of bedside nurse, medication nurse, delivery nurse, charge nurse, and RN II. Serving in these varied roles has provided me with the skills, knowledge, teamwork, collaboration, and leadership experience that has helped prepare me to venture into a new career path as a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner. My experience as a registered nurse and my educational training through the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Neonatal Nurse Practitioner program has given me a strong foundation for caring for the neonatal population, including well and critically ill newborns.