For more than 10 years, Alison Chwalibog worked in the hectic and busy world of emergency medicine, caring for patients in crisis, leading trauma responses and mentoring new nurses. Through it all, she couldn’t help but think what it would be like to help patients before they ended up at the emergency department.
So, Chwalibog returned to school to become a family nurse practitioner, and she is now bringing her experience to Northeast Georgia Physicians Group (NGPG) Thompson Bridge.
“I loved my time in the emergency department, but what I really wanted was more time with my patients and to care for them through their entire health journey,” Chwalibog said in a recent press release. “I knew family medicine was the place for me, and I’m so glad I made the switch.”
Chwalibog earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Wilmington University in Wilmington, Delaware, and went on to earn her master’s degree from Frontier Nursing University in Versailles, Kentucky. She began her nursing career in Maryland at an orthopedic rehabilitation hospital in Baltimore and then at Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center’s emergency department in Annapolis. After moving to Georgia, she then joined Northeast Georgia Health System, where she worked in the emergency department for six years and later worked in the post-anesthesia care unit…