Note: the following release was submitted to Polk.Today.
Our local nurse practitioner is set to represent her counterparts on the state level for another term effective July 1st after she was reelected to be Georgia’s representative to American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP).
AANP’s elected officers, professional staff and more than 109,000 members are united by the vision of high-quality health care services for all by the patients’ provider of choice.
As AANP Georgia State Representative, Ross joins a distinguished list of nurse practitioner who are committed to raising awareness of the exceptional care NPs provide and advocating for legislation that improves patients’ care to that care.
Ross continues a career in the health care field that spans over 40 years. She serves as a nurse practitioner at Redmond’s office in Cedartown.
She graduated from Valdosta State College with her bachelor’s degree in nursing. When her son went off to college, she went back to Kennesaw State University for her Masters in Nursing as a nurse practitioner.
Ross has working in many areas of health care, working her way through nursing school as an EMT. She served in the United States Air Force as an officer in the Nurse Corp. She has working in the hospital setting in all areas with the exception of operating room.
She has also worked in correctional health and occupational health.
Ross and her husband Russell moved to Polk County over 20 years ago. She has one grown son Jeremy. He and his wife blessed them with a beautiful 3 year old granddaughter.
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