Paula Carson, MSN, FNP-BC, RN began her career as an LPN in 1985, graduating from Indiana Vo-Tech in Indiana, Pennsylvania. She earned her Associate in Nursing from Charles County Community College in 1994 and a Bachelor of Nursing from Stevenson University in 2012. In 2016 Paula finished her Masters in Nursing graduating from Bowie University’s Family Nurse Practitioner program.

Throughout her career in healthcare, Paula has worked in a number of positions including long-term care, home health care, infusion companies, and the Naval Health Clinic at Pax River. Most recently before SMCHD, she worked at MinuteClinic in Leonardtown. After researching and speaking with friends and colleagues Paula made the move to public health, as she described, it’s one of the few areas of medicine where helping people and our community is the primary goal.

Currently, Paula lives in Calvert County with her husband, whom she has been married to for 36 years, and a very spoiled Goldendoodle and Sphynx cat. She has three grown children and three grandchildren. In her spare time, she enjoys all the activities that living near the water allows, such as kayaking, fishing, crabbing, and boating.