Damaris Grossmann
Integrative Telehealth DNP & Veteran
Damaris Grossmann was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey in 1981. She began her educational career in the medical field with training in the United States Navy as an active duty enlisted minority woman. She served in Enduring Freedom after the 9/11 terrorist attacks from 1999–2005. As a military sailor, she received a Naval Achievement medal for her work during duty, but after witnessing military trauma, she decided to shift her skills and training from a battle warrior to a peaceful warrior and thus, started her nursing career by receiving her diploma degree to become a licensed practical nurse in 2006. While challenged with overcoming adversity of military trauma and a learning disability, no matter the roadblocks placed in front of her during her nursing career, she never gave up on her education.
As an adopted child and a child of an immigrant, she felt compelled to work in community health for underserved populations in Newark, NJ to help mentor others toward a better future. She spent time working at Children’s Specialized Hospital taking care of special needs children, and in 2011, she graduated from Rutgers University with her Bachelor’s of Nursing. She worked for New York Presbyterian Hospital as a Critical Care Float Nurse in Pediatrics and kept working in community and college health. She furthered her education with her Master’s and Doctorate of Nursing Practice at Rutgers University as a Family Nurse Practitioner and wrote her doctoral work on healthcare provider anxiety reduction using mindfulness techniques. She became a YogaNurse, as well as board certified in integrative and holistic health. In her own healing process, she learned modalities of integrative health and is currently studying with the Institute for Functional Medicine. Dr. Grossmann believes in changing the healthcare paradigm from sick care to a well care and making wellness a whole health approach for all. She currently practices telehealth and home visits in her private practice and is an advocate for meeting the patient where they are by using telehealth for communities to gain more access to care.
View Dr. Grossmann’s Nurses You Should Know video here, tune into her podcast, or connect on Facebook or Instagram.
Sources
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