Getting to Know: Ellis Medicine clinic nurse practitioner Maurya Datka - The Daily Gazette

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After volunteering for St. Vincent de Paul Village successful San Diego years agone arsenic a tutor and past successful the organization’s clinic, Ballston Spa nonmigratory Maurya Datka realized she loved helping radical medically.

So, portion she had a grade from Skidmore College successful biology, she decided to caput backmost to schoolhouse to go a nurse.

For the past 20 years she’s worked successful assorted capacities astatine Ellis Medicine, opening arsenic a diligent attraction technician successful the exigency country successful 2002. She obtained her subordinate grade successful nursing successful 2005, and was a registered caregiver successful the ER until 2017, earlier helping to unfastened Primary Care Plus successful the aged St. Clare’s ER.

It was determination that she helped with the aforesaid time sick/walk-in session until Primary Care Plus closed and she moved implicit to the Family Health Center wherever she continued moving successful the sick/walk-in clinic.

Datka’s acquisition successful the exigency country and past successful the session made her recognize the request for entree and ensuring radical person a superior attraction physician, peculiarly successful areas that whitethorn beryllium considered economically disadvantaged.

Q: What was your information down getting undoctored radical — radical without doctors — to superior attraction physicians and keeping them retired of the exigency room.

A: For maine the conception down the locomotion in/same time sick session is to let each sick sojourn to beryllium an accidental for wellness. So, you contiguous for a sick sojourn but [we’d ask] bash you person a superior attraction doctor? Are you taking your meds? Have you been successful for a physical? Have you been pursuing up connected your chronic condition? It’s conscionable a antithetic attack I thought could beryllium utile aft seeing it successful the ER.

Q: In what ways bash you deliberation the wellness attraction strategy could beryllium amended astatine helping economically disadvantaged neighborhoods?

A: I deliberation entree is huge. It’s truly astir people, it’s astir existent lives. You person work, you person kids, you person home, you person family, you person finances, you person schoolhouse and past wherever bash you acceptable successful your wellness — you person each of these different things. So often we interest astir our wellness erstwhile things are changing truthful having a spot wherever you tin spell erstwhile each of a abrupt wellness becomes a apical priority, having immoderate spot you tin locomotion successful and hopefully get established I deliberation successful the mediate of the assemblage I deliberation is 1 spot we tin help.

Q: In what ways are you helping families get their children vaccinated?

A: That is truly conscionable a radical effort. Hometown wellness has radical embedded successful the schools. All of the nurses implicit determination are conscionable trying to scope retired to families to get the kids into school, staying successful school. So we bash a vaccination session each September, on with the Family Health Center and the residents present astatine the Family Health Center. We let kids who person not been vaccinated, they conscionable travel successful — archetypal travel archetypal served and we get them vaccinated.

Q: What would you accidental is 1 of the biggest challenges you spot connected a day-to-day basis?

A: I deliberation that 1 of the biggest things I find challenging oregon frustrating successful the authorities of wellness attraction and my occupation contiguous is truly conscionable the deficiency of absorption oregon the cognition oregon the acquisition connected the powerfulness of superior care. COVID really [put our focus] connected acute issues and I deliberation present we’re looking at the request for more ICU space, we request much ventilators, but truthful galore emergencies similar strokes, heart, respiratory issues, overdoses, determination are truthful galore details that led up to that event.

Q: What would you accidental to idiosyncratic who is reasoning astir becoming a nurse?

A: I tin lone accidental I’ve met and been inspired by truthful galore people, truthful galore co-workers, truthful galore patients and COVIDmade a batch of radical rethink their decisions astir their spot successful wellness care, but I consciousness similar it made maine treble down connected mine. I cognize that wellness attraction is an uphill conflict successful truthful galore ways, but similar immoderate different close it’s truly worthy warring for.