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By Lauren Johnson

Carrie Carroll was named the new nurse practitioner at the Brundidge Medical Clinic with Dr. Charles Linguiti.

“It’s been a long wait and we really need her here, so I’m very excited and happy. She’ll make a big difference here with her skill and dedication, and she’s going to enable us to spend more time increasing our care,” Linguiti said.

Karen Herring, the marketing director of Troy Regional Medical Center, is also excited for Carroll and her future at Brundidge Medical Clinic. Herring is thankful for the support of the mayor and the community.

“We can’t thank Mayor Isabell Boyd and her city council enough for their support of this medical clinic and for supporting Carrie,” Herring said.

Carroll is originally from Troy and she graduated high school from Charles Henderson in 2009. From there, she attended Troy University for her Bachelors in Science and Nursing.

In 2013, she earned her degree from Troy University, and she started her first job as a registered nurse at Baptist Medical Center South Emergency Department in Montgomery, Alabama.

After Carroll worked there for a little over a year and a half, she started working at the Montgomery Cancer Center in the Intensive Care Unit.

“The reason I became a nurse was because of my father,” Carroll explained. “He had cancer so that was my driving force to become a nurse.”

After working as a registered nurse for four years, Carroll realized that it was time to pursue her goal of becoming a nurse practitioner.

“I really enjoyed nursing and I wanted to form those relationships with my patients. We’re all about teaching and educating and I wanted to be able to take that as a nurse and be able to build on it to help my community,” Carroll said.

In May 2020, Carroll earned a Master’s of Science in Nursing with honors as a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner from Auburn University.

“During my advance practice education, I continued to reflect on a scripture in Matthew 19 to give me encouragement and remind me that, ‘With God there is no limit to what you can do. There is no obstacle you can’t overcome. Through him, all things are possible’,” she said.

As an RN, Carroll said she has always enjoyed teaching and educating nursing students to prepare them for their first job, orienting new nurses, and advancing her own nursing knowledge.

“Most importantly I love the close interactions and relationships nurses get to form with patients, and that’s what drove me to continue to pursue my education as a nurse practitioner,” she said.

For Carroll, becoming a CRNP allows her to engage in her community and address the community’s health-related needs, while also striving to identify and promote healthy life-styles to make positive changes in the community.

“When I came back to the hospital here (Troy Regional) I got to see the sickest of the community and see what the communities struggles are,” Carroll said.

Carroll has worked with patients going through surgery and even end-of-life care. She has worked in the ICU, in the ER, and now as a nurse practitioner, she will be able to take care of patients consecutively and build relationships with them.

“These different aspects have given me a very rounded knowledge to build on for this,” she said.

Carroll currently lives in Brundidge with her family including her husband Justin, who she’s been married to for six years, and their three-year-old daughter Madison. As a family they enjoy the outdoors, traveling, and spending time with friends and family.

“I have no intention of leaving. I really want to get to know the community, build the community, gain trust, and see where the needs are,” she said.

Carroll hopes that in five to ten years to be able to develop a program to help her community and fill whatever it’s needs are.

“Working in my hometown has brought me closer to my communities needs and has been a driving force for me to continue advancing my education,” Carroll said.