Nurse practitioner is a Pigeon native looking to care for community

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Sheena Damm has been serving the Pigeon community for the better part of the last decade and wants to continue serving medical care to the community she was born and raised in.

Damm currently serves as a family nurse practitioner for Scheurer Health in Pigeon in the pediatric department, but has worked in different departments and other health organizations in the past.

“I have been a pigeon native for 34 years, my entire life,” said Damm. “I went to undergraduate school at Saginaw Valley State University. After that, I worked at Scheurer Emergency for about three years, and from there I worked at Covenant ER for four and a half years. Working there is what prompted me to go back to school to get my FNP degree, so I did Olivet Nazarene (University) for two years to get my family nurse practitioner (degree) and I did my clinicals locally with the majority of them being at Scheurer hospitals with the physicians there. Then, after I got my degree in 2018, that is when I returned back to Scheurer hospital as a family nurse practitioner.”

While Damm was going to school and working out of Covenant Healthcare in Saginaw, she commut-

Sheena Damm is a family nurse practitioner for Scheurer Health and has been a Pigeon native all her life. She is looking to continue to serve the residents of her community. (Courtesy Photo / Scheurer Health) them), but I am defiantly an adrenaline junkie, so there are many aspects of the emergency department that I miss.” ed from her home in the Thumb. She believes it is a great place to live and work, which is what committed her to come back to serve the community where she grew up.

As a nurse family nurse practitioner, her day is structured based on the patients that are scheduled to come in, unlike her time working in the ER.

“So my typical day there is a roster of patients ranging from newborn to, I think the oldest is 101,” Damm said. “What I will do is a variety of well-child visits, physical exams, or treating acute visits such as illnesses, colds, and injuries. It ranges based on the schedule. I do love the predictability of the schedule. It fits my home life now that I am a mom and I can take off (for