Donna Sandifer is dual certified as an Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner and as an Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. After becoming a Registered Nurse in 1991, she worked in a variety of nursing areas at Catawba Valley Medical Center but found her greatest passion while working in Critical Care.  She later obtained her undergraduate at University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2012. In 2020, she graduated from East Carolina University with a Doctorate of Nursing Practice as an Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner. In 2022, she completed an Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. As a Nurse Practitioner, she has worked in the areas of Infectious Disease, HIV, and long term care.