My name is Hannah and I’m a registered nurse, midwife, and women’s health nurse practitioner with over ten years of direct patient care experience, now launching the next phase of my career as a healthcare and wellness writer. For more than a decade, I’ve done and seen it all “at the bedside.” I’ve caught hundreds of babies, placed about a thousand IUD’s, performed countless pap smears, and helped new moms get that first, incredibly satisfying latch with their newborn. I’ve led and managed large teams of nurses and doctors, mastered the tech maze that is the electronic health record, and witnessed all of the beauty and pain that is built into caring for people and families on their best and worst days, through a pandemic, at 3 in the morning, in hospitals, clinics, and everywhere in between.    

What I’ve always found most exciting- and satisfying- as a healthcare provider is the ability to communicate effectively: to take complex and sometimes scary health information, and make it digestible, comprehensible, succinct, and human. That’s where the connection between a healthcare provider and a healthcare consumer matters most: in the words we choose to forge connections and build trust.

I bring four essential assets to the world of health and wellness writing. First, my wealth of hands-on healthcare knowledge from years as a primary care provider and nurse in hospital and outpatient settings. Second, I am a masters prepared nurse, meaning I’m well-versed in looking at medical journals, studies, and statistics and applying those to real, everyday people and problems. Third, I have a knack for writing! I can quickly and expertly take complex topics and turn them into approachable and useful formats for the average reader.

And last, but by no means least, I am a mom of two young kids. There’s nothing in the world like being in the trenches of parenthood, and my own parenting journey has deeply enriched my work as a nurse with new parents and young families. I love this crossover- getting to connect with patients about the endless newborn nights, the hilarious made up words our toddlers come up with by accident, and the enormous, beautiful, exhausting project of raising children well. 

Moments of connection are what make being a parent and a nurse so meaningful. They brighten your day, and allow you to move through it with more confidence and perspective. I can’t wait to create those connections on the page with and for your readers.