Maren Okonkwo

Maren Okonkwo

I'm a family nurse practitioner at Seward Community Clinic in south Minneapolis — community primary care, chronic-disease management, and new-American health. My panel is about 2,100 patients, many of them new Americans, elders, and people who spent years without a regular doctor. I believe primary care works best when it's slow enough to listen and organized enough to follow up.

FNP-C APRN · RN (MN) DEA Sched. II–V ACLS · BLS · PALS

2020 — present

Family Nurse Practitioner — Seward Community Clinic

FQHC · south Minneapolis · panel ~2,100

Independent primary care for a 2,100-patient panel across the lifespan; ~30% Spanish-, Somali-, or Hmong-speaking.
Built a monthly diabetes group-visit program — shared medical appointments with a dietitian and community health worker; median A1c in the cohort fell from 8.9 to 7.4 over twelve months.
Stand up text-based reminders in three languages; no-show rate down 28%, colorectal-cancer screening up to 84% of eligible patients.
Precept second-year MSN students from the University of Minnesota one semester a year.

2018 — 2020

Nurse Practitioner Student — Hennepin Healthcare

Adult & family primary care rotations · 720 clinical hours

Full-scope primary care continuity clinic under attending preceptors; managed chronic conditions, acute visits, well-woman exams, and same-day procedures.
Ran a quality-improvement project on teachable-back medication reconciliation at discharge; adopted across two clinic pods.

2016 — 2018

Registered Nurse — Hennepin Healthcare, Float Pool

Med-surg / telemetry / stepdown · Minneapolis

Float RN across five adult inpatient units; built a habit of reading the chart before the handoff that still shapes how I work as a provider.
Charge nurse on night shift from 2017; oriented 14 new-graduate RNs to the float pool.

2013 — 2016

Community Health Worker → EMT — West Side Community Health Services

St. Paul · pre-nursing

Home visits and insurance navigation for newly arrived families — the work that sent me to nursing school.

How I work

Clinical history

Family Nurse Practitioner — Seward Community Clinic

Nurse Practitioner Student — Hennepin Healthcare

Registered Nurse — Hennepin Healthcare, Float Pool

Community Health Worker → EMT — West Side Community Health Services

Boards, licenses & DEA

Numbers from the panel

Training & continuing study

Let's talk

Open to FQHC, teaching-clinic, and integrated primary-care roles.