She has 23 years of experience as a registered nurse (RN) and has practiced as a family nurse practitioner (FNP) for the past 13 years. During her career as a RN, she worked in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Brookwood Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. During that time, she also served as coordinator of the Family Support program that cared for families who were experiencing the loss of a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death.