Stefanie Jennings, FNP-C, IFMCP

10/18/2025

Jennings Health’s new Office Assistant is hard at work 🤍🌊

His checklist between today’s patients:
☑️ Tummy time💪🏻
☑️ Milk break 🍼🤱🏻
☑️ Nap 💤

10/16/2025

Sometimes life throws a curveball — our sublease ended unexpectedly, and Jennings Health is looking for a new home 🌊🤍

If you know of a lease or sublease (~250–750 sq ft) in Alexandria or Arlington, available beginning Nov–Jan, please reach out!

10/08/2024

We’re getting ready for you at Jennings Health!
- Opening October 15th -

10/03/2024

✨ Waitlist Update in your INBOX ✨

08/01/2024

06/17/2024

Don't Give Up Your Dream -

They said you had to pay your dues working on a Med-Surg floor as a new grad.
I said "I'm only going to work in the ICU" and was offered a position in a Level l ICU.

They said it would be years before I would be confident in the ICU setting, especially in a regional referral center.
I took on a Charge Nurse and Preceptor role within 1 year. I certified as a CCRN a few months later.

They said I was crazy to have my baby at home; that I am "a nurse and should know better."
I went on to have a dream home birth with the best midwife. It was my gateway to all things integrative medicine. I never looked back.

They said it was crazy to apply to graduate school to become an NP when I had a toddler and one on the way.
I applied anyway.

I willed my second-born into existence 2 weeks early, because I *really* didn't want him to be born on his due date, the same day I had to start 2 new classes (Advanced Pharmacology and Medical Research).

They said going through functional medicine training during NP school was insane; that I needed time to get my feet wet before l'd ever be able to synthesize that level of complexity.
I big, fat did it ANYWAY!
I went for 5 days to The Institute for Functional Medicine's AFMCP and pumped during every lecture break so that my baby would have milk for the next day.
I'm certain I was the only NP student there.

I kept working part-time as a Unit Supervisor in a Neuro
ICU. Everyone there thought that I should be a Critical Care NP. A few nurses decided this made me no longer worthy of their friendship. "Family NPs are dumb and their jobs are boring," they said.
I continued cranking through IFM's advanced practice modules over the next 2 years, simultaneously working my way through school. I accrued 139 CEs in functional medicine before graduation.

With a lot of prayer & my husband cheering me on.
And a preschooler and a toddler.
And a miscarriage.
And a global pandemic.
A 3.9 GPA (damn that +/- scale).
And an integrative medicine job offer waiting for me.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't do something.
Don't give up on your dream.

🤍Stef, NP

04/26/2024

Kids Multivitamin ↓

I am a functional medicine nurse practitioner who sees a LOT of toddlers & kids in my practice.

I am so excited to have found a kids multivitamin that:

❇️ Has an ideal ratio of essential multivitamins, minerals, & trace minerals

❇️ Tastes great

❇️ Is sugar free

Most of all, it is from a brand that I TRUST!

04/20/2024

Get to Know Me ↓

Hi, I’m Stefanie Jennings; my friends call me Stef. I’m a nurse practitioner (NP) who takes care of families and specializes in integrative and functional medicine.

Since I’ve never written an intro before, here are a few things about me:

* Where am I from?
I grew up on the NY/NJ border, around 30 miles from NYC.

* Where did I receive my education?
I attended for undergrad degrees in Biology (‘10) and Nursing (‘12). I attended for grad school to become a Family Nurse Practitioner (‘20).

* Where have I worked?
I worked as an ICU nurse (CCRN) for 7 years at a level 1 trauma center in Northern Virginia. Once I became an NP, I joined a private family practice which specializes in integrative and functional medicine.

* Who are your people?
I’ve been with Robert since forever (together for 20 years and married for 12 years). We have 3 kids, ages 8, 6, and 2.75.

* What else do you want to know? 🙂

- Stef, NP 🤍

01/12/2024

Help Virginia Nurse Practitioners 🏛 ↓

Contact your legislators in support of HB 971 & HB 983.

As it stands today, NPs in Virginia are required to have 5 years of full-time experience as an NP before they are able to practice autonomously, without a supervising physician.

This practice requirement is the most restrictive in the nation among the states with pathways to autonomous practice.

“Mandated practice agreements with physicians do not involve training from physicians, are not residencies or fellowships, and do not require the physician to practice in the same location as the NP. Instead, they impede an NP’s ability to be mobile within their profession and provide care where it is most needed” (VCNP)

These identical bills (one sponsored by a Democrat, and the other sponsored by a Republican):
- Reduce the requirement to 2 years of experience before the transition to autonomous practice.
- Allow autonomous NPs to oversee patient care teams.
- Allow NPs to practice to the full extent of their nursing education, certification, and training.

Reach out to your legislators this week with a pre-written letter (at the link provided)

Thank you in advance for your support!

Stef, NP 🤍

VCNP is continuing to advocate for full practice authority for Virginia's NPs and is supporting House Bill 971 and House Bill 793. Both bills reduce the transition to practice requirement to two years and allow certain NPs to oversee patient care teams by changing "patient care team physician" to "p...