Stephanie Taets, ARNP, FNP, ENP, SANE-A, CCCN-AP

Mitchell County Regional Health Center

Family Nurse Practitioner

Stephanie Taets is an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner at Mitchell County Regional Health Center (MCRHC) in Osage, Iowa. Taets earned her Master of Science in Nursing degree at the University of Phoenix in 2012 and Post-Masters Family Nurse Practitioner Certification from Allen College in Waterloo, Iowa in 2014.

Taets started her healthcare career at MCRHC in 2002 as an EMT then worked as an RN in the OR/ER/Med Surg Departments until 2014. She began her FNP career in 2014 working in Orthopedic Surgery providing specialty clinic care and as a First Assistant in surgery before returning to MCRHC to work in Family Practice and the Emergency Department where she is still practicing today.

Taets has been a certified as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner of Adults (SANE-A) since 2022 and is an active member of the Assault Response Team at MCRHC providing trauma-informed and forensic care to survivors of Domestic and Sexual Assault as well as Strangulation. Taets became a CCCN-AP in 2023 and started a weekly Continence Care Clinic at MCRHC in July 2023.

She is a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners, International Association of Forensic Nurses, and the Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society.

Taets chose a career in rural medicine because she enjoys getting to know patients for who they are as well as being able to help optimize their health. In her free time Taets enjoys golfing, travel, boating, and spending time with family.