Mrs. Nicole Marie Tsoukalas NURSE PRACTITIONER

Nicole joined the Nursing profession in 1999, when she received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree with honors from Salem State University. She immediately joined Newton Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts as a Labor and Delivery Nurse. For the next fourteen years, Nicole worked in all areas of obstetrics, including Maternal-Fetal Medicine, obtaining a Registered Nurse Certification in Inpatient Obstetrics (RNC-OB), and instructing her peers in Neonatal Resuscitation. In 2013, Nicole received her Master of Science degree from Regis College, and obtained national certification as Family Nurse Practitioner. She spent the next year and a half as a Chronic Pain Management Specialist. When Nicole joined the Veterans Health Administration (VA) in 2014, she changed her focus to primary care. Her practice as a Primary Provider for the Department of Geriatrics and Extended Care centered on the unique needs of the geriatric population with a focus on chronic disease care, medication management, and physical rehabilitation. Nicole was appointed Acting Service Line Manager of her department, and led her entire team through the height of COVID-19, creating policies and procedures to safeguard the health and wellbeing of our nation’s veterans and the VA staff. She was then appointed Program Director for Home Based Primary Care, and led the reopening efforts to reinstate full operations for our Veterans receiving services in their homes. In addition to Nicole’s clinical practice, she has over a decade of experience in providing formal nursing education in clinical and classroom settings as an Adjunct Faculty member for local Massachusetts’ colleges, including Simmons University and Regis College. Nicole and her husband have three children, and they spend their leisure time camping with their family and friends at Sebago Lake in Maine where they enjoy fishing, boating, and roasting marshmallows by the fire. Nicole says she is honored to join Altrix Primary Care, and is committed to providing exceptional healthcare and “treating every patient and family as if they were my own.”