I am Jacinda Stroud (she/her). As an experienced Nurse Practitioner, who is also a personal health consultant and patient advocate, my mission is to provide clients with: • A better understanding of their health and the care connected to it. • Improved context for healthcare decisions. • A safe space to talk through their health priorities and guidance on how to best achieve them. I do this through information, collaboration, and inclusion. I am an experienced Registered Nurse (RN) and board certified Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-BC). I have worked in healthcare since 2009, and have experience with newborn babies to ages 90+. I have worked in hospitals, outpatient clinics, residential care, emergency departments, operating rooms, and beyond. I customize services to the individual needs and priorities of my clients and their budgets/resources. I can also include the people in your support system, such as family or chosen family. I can meet with you virtually, at your home, accompany you for medical appointments or hospital admissions/discharges. I offer various levels of support appropriate to these settings. Based on your wishes, I happily collaborate with outside providers and other medical experts. I am trauma informed, LGBTQI+ inclusive, and serve all ages and stages including pregnant folx. To learn more about me, please visit my website RootPH.com

My goal is to empower my clients to successfully navigate the healthcare system with their best interests at heart. I listen to individual's goals, concerns, fears and questions and collaborate with them to develop a plan that supports them in the short- and long-term. I CAN ASSIST WITH: • Connecting/ communicating care between loved ones, who can’t physically be in the same place • Decrease anticipatory fear/ discuss what to expect BEFORE and AFTER planned hospitalizations, birth of a child, surgery or other scheduled events • Navigating medical appointments • Helping you prioritize, track and organize your care • Deciphering medical jargon • Setting-up a home routine after recent hospitalization • Helping you organize questions for an upcoming medical appointment I also support and ensure your voice, opinions, questions and concerns are heard and addressed by your doctors and other medical providers. Additionally, I can significantly improve communication between my clients and their outside healthcare providers/team. This: • Reduces risk of errors in medications, missed follow-up appointments, and other points of frustration. • Improves access to appropriate care and adjunct services, as well as more efficient use of time in scheduled appointments.

Our intro call gives me an opportunity to learn about you and your primary questions/concerns. In most cases, by the end of the consultation we will be able to determine whether we are a good fit for one another, and to propose a formal initial appointment and action plan for working together moving forward. The intro call is also a great time to pinpoint minor "to-do" tasks for all parties (such as gathering a specific medical record, etc.) that will support our first "formal session” in being most effective.

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