Michelle Binns, CCRN, MSN, ARNP, has served as a nurse practitioner specializing in internal medicine at McKenzie Medical Associates, located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the best part of two decades. She has completed graduate level study programs, which designate her as an advanced registered nurse practitioner and allow her to undertake primary responsibility for certain patients’ care. She is a highly experienced member of the McKenzie Medical Associates team, valued for her expertise in cardiovascular procedures and in the ongoing management of a range of cases. She has served the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, area in various nursing roles since the 1990s.

 

Ms. Binns began her career studying at Florida International University, where she earned bachelor and master of science degrees in nursing. She then worked as a staff nurse in the intensive care unit of North Ridge Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, where she began to specialize in the treatment and recovery of cardiovascular patients. This led her to the cardiovascular intensive care unit at Broward General Medical Center, where she assumed charge nurse responsibilities for a 12-bed unit.

 

She continued to enhance her cardiac nursing skills, particularly in stent placement, vascular angioplasty, and aortic balloon pump therapy at the Florida Medical Center, where she worked as a circulating nurse in the cardiac catheterization lab. She followed this with work in another cardiac catheterization lab at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida. She arrived at McKenzie Medical Associates in 1999 and has been an invaluable resource for the practice’s patients ever since