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Valerie R. Vestal

Valerie R. Vestal MSN, PMHNP-BC

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Winston-salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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Dr. Valerie is a Board Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. Her nursing career has yielded a variety of experiences extending from Cardiac Critical Care, Nursing Informatics, and Adjunct Clinical Instructor. She has found her home in Psychiatry.

She received both her undergraduate and a graduate degree in Nursing from Winston-Salem State University. She also holds a Post Master's in Psychiatric Family Nurse Practitioner from the University of South Alabama School of Nursing. She is also a Lieutenant in the United States Navy Reserve and has deployed to both Kuwait and Germany.

She is passionate about uplifting patients who have a negative self-image and have defined themselves by their illness. She has most recently expressed this through her work as a contributing author in the book Goodness Abounds.

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