My name's Nikki Ver Voort.
I'm a Nurse Practitioner and I work in family medicine.
I've always like helping people.
Ever since I was little, I always wanted to help people.
I didn't know how I wanted to go about it.
I started college and still really wasn't sure what I wanted to do.
I went into nursing at, actually, my mom's recommendation.
Turned out I loved it and it was exactly what I was looking for my entire life.
Graduated from nursing school and knew I wanted to do more.
I wanted to help patients more.
So I went into school for a Nurse Practitioner and here I am.
I love family medicine because I get to take care of everyone; birth through the end of
life and I get to meet everyone.
I get to meet the babies, I get to meet the parents, I get to meet the cousins, I get
to meet the grandparents.
It is really that sense of family that I love.
That's something that I got to experience necessarily in my nursing career.
Working peri op, I really only cared for the patient in that moment, which is really important
but in the end, I love that sense of community.
I think what I'd like them to know is that I'm just like them, and I know how scary it
is to sit in that chair and tell some stranger everything that you don't want to explain
to somebody.
I'm an excellent listener and I'm here to go through this experience with you, and help
you lead a healthier life.
I think listening.
I think so often in health care, patients feel like they're not listened to.
That their feelings aren't heard, their feelings aren't felt.
I think going through the experienced with the customer, crying with them, laughing with
them, the joy that cones with life, and also the sadness and the grief that we have to
go through, makes me a real person and not just some entity that barks orders and tells
you to do something you don't necessarily want to do.
I love to spend time with my family and my friends.
I have a three year old son, who is the, my entire world.
He is just a doll.
We bike, we hike, and we started teaching how to ski.
Actually, he started skiing when he was 14 months, so we just took him out this year
again, and he is wonderful.
It's, he's finally found his little niche, so he's doing wonderful with it.
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