Faith Alperin

For 23 years, I have been committed to caring for women and their families. I am proud to continue my journey and commitment as a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner after completing all requirements for my MSN at Frontier Nursing University. It is even more critical today in our current political climate to protect, care for, educate, and advocate for women, and I am honored to be in a position to be among the other advocates out there.

My nursing career began in 2002 as a Sentara School of Nursing graduate. My nursing education was at a challenging, fast-paced diploma program, a vestige of the past, but better prepares novice nurses for the skills needed to care for patients right out of the gate. After graduation, I worked for Sentara Norfolk General Hospital's level III NICU and newborn nursery.

I remained in this position for 10 years when Sentara reorganized into a mother-baby structure. I then applied my skills to caring for the mom-baby pair for 3 years, split between Sentara and Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, before transitioning to labor and delivery at the naval hospital, where I have remained for the past ten years. My labor and delivery nursing journey has allowed me to care for military families, which has been a great honor.

I have always been passionate about women's health and rights and felt the calling to do more with my career, so in 2022, I returned to school first to complete my BSN and, finally, my MSN at Frontier Nursing University to become a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner.

Sentara Nursing School, diploma nurse, 2002

Chamberlain University, BSN, 2022

Frontier Nursing University, MSN, WHNP, 2025