About
Born in Hilo, Hawaii, Joy moved to Montana at a young age and has lived here ever since. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Montana – Bozeman. After graduation, Joy took a job working in the operating room and fell in love with trauma surgery. She spent the next 12 years working in the operating room. Joy decided to go back to school and obtained a master’s degree in Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner from the University of Maryville in St. Louis. Her clinical interests include critical care post-op patient management, procedural excellence in the post-op care and evidence-based improvement of patient post-op outcomes all for cardiac surgery...