Lindsey Louise Duke, NP

Lindsey Duke

My name is Lindsey Duke and I'm a nurse practitioner at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. My initial background before actually going to nursing, I was in exercise physiology. I played a lot of sports growing up and really loved just sports and management and how the body moves. And so through those programs, it actually fosters a preventative side of medicine, which the American healthcare system doesn't necessarily focus on preventative. So for me, that's one of the things I really liked going into the internal medicine outpatient side of things, is that I can really focus on that preventative side of things before it becomes a problem. As a nurse working with patients, I think one of the most important things is providing a trustworthy relationship with patients, because so many people nowadays are afraid to go to their provider. So for me, being able to provide a trusting relationship with my patients is very important. So for me, one of the things I was also taught was just you want to treat your patients as your grandmother, your grandfather, as a family member, as you want them to be treated. So for me, I try to think about my patients as a family member, and how would I want my family members to be treated, to give them just the utmost care that I can.