I specialize in a "call" to a public ministry that utilizes not only my education, credentials, & experience but a faith-based healing ministry that contributes to, and improves public & community wellness.  I have worked to become an expert surrounding translational evidenced-based research utilizing synthesized knowledge to design individualized programs that improve health such as; evidenced-based diets, addressing chronic co-morbidities with practical lifestyle changes, recognition of environmental and dietary toxic burdens, detoxification strategies of cellular pathways, and the therapeutic use of nutritional supplementation to mitigate or correct diagnosed deficiencies, toxicities, and metabolic pathways that require minerals, vitamins, fatty acids, amino acids, co-factors, enzymes, antioxidants etc., and health of the gut microbiome. 

My health service career has grown and afforded me the opportuntiy to gain a wide variety of experiences over the decades. From my  early years of my first job working as a psychiatric in-patient counselor to the bedside in the ICU to utilizing the advanced skill set of the FNP/DNP within my community. I partner with mental health programs, local school systems, teachers, parents and children & youth diagnosed with ADHD. I serve as a preceptor for our local HS students in areas of science and health related subjects for their Senior projects. I have partnered with the  Brunswick County Law Enforcement SANE program (sexual assualt nursing examiner).

I have served my local university as a guest lecture in Cell Bio courses at Coastal Carolina University (CCU) teaching students the connection between Functional lab markers and chronic disease. Future bio students get a glimpse how thier work in the field of cell biology benefits patients who suffer with chornic disease when early bio markers of abnormal metabolic pathways are identified and corrected, nutritional deficiency identifyed and corrected and toxins are detoxified and detoxification pathways are corrected. 

My passion for research has led me to partner with CCU undergraduate student research projects in collaboration with the Microbiology faculity in genetic research examining over 1000 nutritional substances in the Drosophila fruit fly with Huntington's Disease, as the relationship between human and fruit fly genes is very close and so similiar.

I am passionate about foreign medical missions, I have two daughters who are now medical doctors, and one daughter one in medical school, and a son serving in the US Military as well as two adopted children who are our absolute living miracles babies! 

Integrating Faith, Medicine & Culture... Why it matters? Because it improves the health of  Community! 

My FNP healthcare practice has a very long history of doing what nurses do best and that is taking care of patients who live in community systems by implementing health initiatives! Nurses have a very different focus than conventional doctors!

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Medical Errors Must Be Reduced & Prevented

When you have a life long career  taking care of patients, the one thing every nurse knows is "it's absolutely critical to know WHO your healthcare provider is, and do they work well as a TEAM player?

Health-care requires an integrative focused team approach with the patient seated at the center.  Seriously ill persons all too often report they feel ignored, silenced or misunderstood in our modern medical institutions. Click here for this study.

The most important part of any  prevention stratey is to reduce medical error.
​ Click here  here & here & here. 

A 2020 study shows that high medical mistakes with serious consequences are most likely to occur in Intensive Care Units, Operating Rooms, and Emergency Departments. 

​Of those reporting that they experienced medical error - 73% indicated that were actually injured by the error.

The Genesis of the DNP Doctoral Progam​ 

The current DNP doctoral program is no longer the original vision of those initial beginnings of the DNP programs. Click here

When I began my doctoral journey the DNP degree was promoted by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) to provide an alternative to the PhD for advanced practice nurses to achieve a terminal degree in nursing. The “DNP Essentials”  (AACN, 2006) provides the foundation for new roles for doctorally prepared nurses who are experts in translational or improvement science rather than research.

​The “DNP Essentials” contains careful differentiation between research-focused programs (PhD) and practice-focused programs (DNP).
​The ongoing debate over the need for DNP residency programs is reviewed, and financial challenges—arguably the greatest barrier and need to DNP acceptance—are discussed in these studies.
​Click here and here 
and here here
 
Between 2006 and 2012, DNP programs grew in number from 20 to 217 in the United States,  (AACN, 2013).   
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I was fortunate enough to be in one of the first DNP graduating classes at the University of South Carolina and also I was in the first graduating MS/FNP class at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington! 

Those early docorate DNP years required courses in the biomedical sciences such as Genetics, Epidemiology, BioEthics, and a two semesters of Bio Statistics and Research, Health Finance, and the clinical required hours. 

NPs fully undrstand why the first DNP models established has been redesigned into the leadership model t it is today.  The initial DNP programs no longer exist. The founding DNP programs had an impossible work load for "working NPs" with no real increase in job opportunites, or incease pay for double or triple boarded DNPs.   

  

About ME...

​Carly Willeford offers an on-line TELE-HEALTH teaching medical model with appointments discussing preventative medical strategies to reduce co-morbidities of chronic disease. Advanced metabolic testing that identifies early disease markers that when addressed can prevent chronic disease and is critical to a healthcare prevention model.

The Standard American Diet (SAD) coupled with a symptom/drug medical model has led to a dramatic rise in chronic disease with patients experiencing polypharmacy and many co-morbidities that are usually lifestyle related and/or a lack of education and teaching during medical visits. 

Carly Willeford also offers Mental Health Counseling that  complements her prevention medicine model. America has one in five adults with a mental, behavioral or emotional disorder, with even more devastating gaps by the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Studies of people dealing with major life stressors show religion and spirituality are generally helpful to people coping, especially people with the fewest resources facing the most uncontrollable of problems. (i.e. natural disaster, illness, loss of loved one, divorce, serious mental illness). 

It is absolutely essential for providers to be skilled and able to engage in difficult conversations regarding prognosis with a set of counseling skills as well as pull community together in disaster response connecting faith based communities as critical resources. Working with elected officials, public health and faith-based communities is the key to successful DNPs in community establishing healthy initiatives with key stake holders. 

What if your Healthcare Provider is a Nurse Practitioner?
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"Evidence about patient preferences regarding the type of provider is conflicting. Click Here. 

What is a DNP Nurse Practitioner? 

DNP stands for Doctor of Nursing Practice and is the Doctorate Degree for the Masters Prepared Nurse Practitioner.  Click here

Board Certified Nurse Practitioners holds a medical license and are able to order laboratory & diagnostic testing and prescribe medications. Regulates: Joint Subcommittee of the Medical Board and the Board of Nursing
 
As a Christian healthcare provider and pastor, I teach biblical principles, and creation science as it relates to the biochemistry of the body, gut microbiome and brain chemistry, as well as advanced evidenced-based diagnostic testing in an effort to diagnose, treat, and prevent physical, mental and spiritual disease and concerns of the patient within community faith groups and nursing and chruch conferences. Click here for more research studies in this innovation of bridging education in community stakeholders such as faith based organizations and school systems to the local healthcare systems. 

I believe and certainly agree with the scientific statement from the American Heart Association that prevention strategies and early intervention has potential to mitigate or reverse devasting disease that is overwhelming the national health care budget and establishing a crises in the American family unit.

About ME.

• I have over 3 decades serving the Health Care Industry.  
• I am a mother of six incredibly wonderful kids. I have home schooled all of my children from K-12 with the oldest two currently in Medical Residency and one in medical school! 
• I believe the joy of education and life-long learning is the answer to cultural disagreements. Love is taught in the safety of the home and radiates out into the world. 
• I am a motivational speaker and teacher on chronic diseases and health issues such as addictions, substance abuse, depression and psychiatric disorders, chronic diseases, and her passion degenerative neurological disease.  
• I am a sought-after healthcare consultant with the preventative teaching expertise that is too often missing in the medical arena. 
•  I am a leader in community with a vision and commitment to see healthy transformation in the family, church, and especially in the healthcare systems.  
• I began my Counseling career in the Mental Health field after obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work (BSW) from Mansfield University, located in Mansfield PA and I further specialized my Doctoral training DNP in the area of Psychiatric-Mental Health and Family Practice at the University of South Carolina, Columbia SC. 
• I attended The Catholic University of America, located in Washington D.C., and obtained a nursing degree. I went on to specialize in the Neuro Trauma ICU. 
• I integrated my counseling skills into the nursing profession as a trauma & critical care nurse helping families cope with tragedy and loss. 
• I eventually left a decade in bedside care of the critically ill patient to pursue the Family Nurse Practitioner advanced training. During years as a Critical Care Specialist, I began to appreciate the dynamic Creation process of the human body with its innate ability to heal. 
•  I attend the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and obtained a Master’s of Science & the Family Nurse Practitioner Degree along with National Board Certification (FNP). The FNP is trained, licensed and board certified to provide medical care, promote health, and treat disease in patients from childhood through old age. The FNP is licensed to order diagnostic labs/test, diagnose, treat and prescribe medications for a wide range of diseases.
• I obtained my Doctorate Degree from the University of South Carolina.  The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) is an advanced-level practice, terminal degree that focuses on the clinical aspects of the nurse practitioner. DNP's plan and implement their practice with individuals and populations. The goal of this professional is to integrate the spiritual, biological, social, psychological and cultural factors that influence human responses to health and illness.
• The DNP Practice is to optimize the health care delivery through planned change. The changing demands of our nations complex healthcare environment requires the highest level of scientific knowledge and practice expertise to assure quality patient outcomes. 
• I have the passion and expertise to incorporate advanced biochemical testing, diet, exercise, environment, toxic burden and therapeutic use of medications and nutritional supplementation.  
• I completed work at Asbury Theological Seminary and was awarded nomination into the UMC clergy ordination program.  My passion is teaching the Creation miracle of the physical body, mind and soul. 
• I am passionate about research in areas of faith, spirituality, and public theology. My passion is to promotes inner-faith community activities related to religion, spirituality, and health as it relates to improving communities and the growth of biblical knowledge. 
• My future goals include growing my ministry teaching using platforms such as tele-health and social media to teach the Creation process of healing and to bring critical research translated into strategies individuals can use to heal themselves physically, mentally and spiritually. ​