Julie Skinner is a board certified Nurse Practitioner that has worked in healthcare for almost 30 years. She received her Family Nurse Practitioner degree from AdventHealth University in Orlando, FL. Julie's nursing career started when she was 16, working nights at a little rural hometown nursing home. This is where her love of nursing began with all elderly patients that she took care of and so she got her certified nursing assistant (CNA) certification. From there, Julie dove headlong into nursing, getting her bachelors of nursing degree from Union College in Lincoln, NE while working as a CNA in a surgery department and doing home health care. She graduated with high honors and was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau International honor society of Nursing.

After graduating, Julie worked at a hospital near Denver, CO on a medical/surgical/telemetry floor and within 3 months of starting her position was promoted to charge nurse and was precepting nursing students. While working for this hospital, Julie attained certification for Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support.

After several years at this hospital, Julie followed her husband as his career landed them in Atlanta, GA. While in Georgia, she worked in many capacities at the hospital including medical/surgical, pre-surgery and recovery, interventional radiology, pain management, GI lab, documentation auditor, and case management. Julie precepted nursing students and was soon promoted to the clinical coordinator of the pre-surgery and GI lab department. After many years in that capacity, she accepted the position of Interventional Radiology department manager where she helped build this new department of the hospital. During her time here, she went on a 10 day medical mission trip into the Amazon Jungle of Peru providing healthcare to remote villages along the Amazon river.

Once again, she chose to follow her husband as his career took them to Tampa, FL. While in Florida, Julie decided since her kids were now school age it was time to advance her Career to Family Nurse Practitioner. While in school, she worked in home health care and got pulled into special projects of documentation auditing and writing insurance appeals to help get patient's care covered.

After several years in Tampa, Julie again followed her college sweet heart and husband to KS where they chose to settle in Linwood. Julie started working at a Lawrence hormone clinic as the primary provider; this is where her interest into the more wholistic side of healthcare began to bloom. While at this clinic, Julie implemented a weight loss program in conjunction with bioidentical hormone balancing. She starting taking more training and certification for aesthetics, weight loss, hormone balancing, and functional health.

After years of her husband's gentle prompting and support, Julie decided she would finally take the leap into opening her own practice.... and that is how JS wellness began. It's humble beginnings started in 

Eudora, KS renting 2 rooms out of an insurance office. A year and half later, JS wellness moved and expanded to it's current location. Julie is constantly learning from respected providers in the industry to stay up to date with new products and services. Nursing and healthcare are who she is, Julie adores her patients and helping them to reach their goals of health and wellness.

If Julie isn't with her patients, you can find her with her family exploring the outdoors. She is married to her college sweetheart and together they have two children..... along with horses, dogs, cats, chickens, honey bees, and a couple sand boa snakes.

Why Eudora Kansas? Julie grew up on a family farm in southeast Colorado raising paint horses, beef cattle, llamas, miniature donkeys, emu's, and more. Small town country life is in her blood and she loves making one on one personal connections with all of her patients.