Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Rubi Baltazar Merino


Rubi Baltazar Merino is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse practitioner. She received her Master of Science in Nursing from East Carolina University in Greenville North Carolina. She has extensive nursing experience of more than 15 years in acute care, primary care and community health. She has also assisted in research completion and dissemination at East Carolina University

Rubi is an Eastern NC native. Her volunteer work within her local Community with children, adolescents, adults and older adults illustrated the immense gap in psychiatric and mental health care which led her to pursue her certification in psychiatry. Her passion is working to provide quality and compassionate psychiatric care to rural eastern NC and serve the most vulnerable populations including Minority populations and older adults.

Rubi enjoys mentoring and teaching students the foundations of psychiatry, Building future quality leaders in psychiatry. Her goal is to empower individuals by enhancing their mental health to stay physically and mentally fit throughout the life span.

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We accept only a few patients per day, so we can dedicate time to evaluate each patient comprehensively in a holistic fashion, Each patient will receive a needs assessment evaluation by the social work staff initially and then the case is discussed with Dr. Madaram to present the best course of action.

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