Shamika Brooks has been practicing nursing for more than 12 years and has been a nurse practitioner since 2015 when she graduated with a Master of Science in Nursing from Maryville University in St. Louis, Missouri. She currently works as an advanced practice clinician providing preventive, primary care, palliative, and acute care to adult & geriatric residents living in a long term care setting. Shamika is a certified Family Nurse Practitioner licensed in the state of Texas and Washington state. Her previous position was as a nurse practitioner at Parkland hospital in Dallas, Texas providing primary care, urgent care, and specialty care to those living with HIV/AIDS. Her duties also include being a member of the inpatient infectious disease consult service at Parkland and also being certified by the American Academy of HIV Medicine as an HIV specialist. In her spare time, she enjoys mentoring and educating new graduate and student nurse practitioners in her current role as preceptor and graduate clinical faculty at University of Texas at Arlington online accelerated FNP program.