Valere Ziske is a Family Nurse Practitioner and an ICU nurse who completed advanced training as a Family Nurse Practitioner. She grew up in South Dakota and went to college at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Nursing; graduating with a BSN in 2003.

She worked at Bryan LGH Medical Center West in Lincoln, Nebraska in progressive care for one and half years before moving to Phoenix in search of warmer weather. She worked from 2005-2013 at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, as well as in neuro ICU with Barrows Neurological Institute, Medical, and Trauma ICU.