Service has always been an important part of Shannon Duerk\u2019s life. Raised in a military home and later married to a Navy veteran, she spent more than a decade working as a nurse in emergency departments and operating rooms. Now, she\u2019s bringing her service-minded expertise to primary care at Northeast Georgia Physicians Group (NGPG) Family Health Associates in Bethlehem.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been fortunate to care for patients in so many different settings over the years, but what I love most is forming long-term relationships,\u201d said Duerk, a family nurse practitioner. \u201cThat\u2019s why I moved into family medicine, so I can use all my years of experience to improve peoples\u2019 day-to-day lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
Duerk was born in Greece, while her father was stationed there in the Navy, but she grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She was close with her aunt who would tell stories about her days as a labor and delivery nurse, which inspired Duerk to pursue a career in medicine.<\/p>\n
Duerk graduated from Defiance College in Defiance, Ohio, worked as a nurse at ProMedica Defiance Regional Hospital for more than 10 years and eventually went back to school to become a family nurse practitioner (FNP). She earned her master\u2019s degree from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, then moved to Georgia to be closer to family and began working as an FNP.<\/p>\n
Outside of work, Duerk enjoys traveling, attending outdoor concerts and working in her flower garden. She also loves spending time with her children and grandchildren and serving at her church in Hamilton Mill.<\/p>\n
NGPG Family Health Associates is open Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and is located inside Medical Plaza at 990 Loganville Highway, Suite 105 in Bethlehem, Georgia. Call 770-848-9300 to schedule an appointment or visit ngpg.org\/duerk<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n NGPG is an affiliate of Northeast Georgia Health System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Service has always been an important part of Shannon Duerk\u2019s life. Raised in a military home and later…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-68494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}