Alumni Spotlight: Jualeah Early

2008 Frontier Nursing University graduate, Jualeah Early, CNM, MSN found her current job with Baby & Co. while she was on a missionโ€”as somewhat of a spy.

As the wife of a basketball coach, Jualeah had gotten used to the moving process and the job-hunting that comes along with it. When she ended up in North Carolina, she was quickly offered a job with a physician-midwife practice, and although the office was a good distance away from her home, she accepted.

When a new birth center opened in her own town, her employers asked Jualeah to attend its open house to scope the new competition. At the Baby & Co. open house, Jualeah encountered fellow FNU graduate Tracy Ryan, CNM, who is the clinical director for all Baby & Co. sites. While Jualeah listened to Tracy talk about the centerโ€™s mission, Jualeah couldnโ€™t help but get excited as she realized her passion strongly aligned with that of Baby & Co.

It wasnโ€™t long before Jualeah joined the Baby & Co. practice, finally fulfilling her dream of working as a nurse-midwife in a birth center.

Jualeah had always known she wanted to be a nurse-midwife. She first heard about FNU while her husband was a coach in Ohio in the 1990s. She began thinking about pursuing her dream of becoming a nurse-midwife when she moved to Alabama, but other nurses discouraged her from pursuing midwifery. She was told there were no nurse-midwives in Alabama and she wouldnโ€™t be able to get a job. Soon after, the couple moved to Louisiana where she was told the same thing. Even so, her passion didnโ€™t waver, and she decided to defy all odds and go for it, enrolling in FNU.

After graduating in 2008, she began her work as a nurse-midwife working with a physician as an independent practitioner. She worked under the same arrangement in both South Carolina and North Carolina before finally finding Baby & Co., which allowed her to work in a birth center, as she truly desired.

According to Jualeah, FNUโ€™s distance-learning model was pivotal in her ability to become a nurse-midwife.

We are proud to have alumni like Jualeah representing FNU every day as they deliver quality healthcare to underserved populations.

Keep up the good work, Jualeah!

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