Tom Partner, NP has worked for 16 years as a Nurse Practioiner, 24 years as a registered nurse and 8 years as Health teacher.
As a nurse practitioner he has worked primarily in the urgent care field.
As a a registered nurse he worked in a variety of fields including emergency room, sugical intensive care,
HIV/AIDS, and psychiatry. He is now working in telehealth.
Tom Partner grew up in a small, blue-collar town called Turtle Creek. Turtle Creek is about 10 miles east of Pittsburgh, PA,
which at the time was largely a steel-mill city.
Encouraged by his high school physics teacher he decided to go to the University of Pittsburgh.
His first career choice was to be a physician, but he ended up going to the School of Nursing.
Four years later, despite numerous obstacles such as being a male in a largely female profession,
he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and a Registered Nurse (RN) license.
At age 50, after being encouraged by a physician friend,
he decided to return to college and become a nurse practitioner.
He was accepted at the University of Phoenix, and after 2 years;
he graduated with a Master’s Degree in Nursing and became a licensed Nurse Practitioner License.
That was in 2008.