When Payton Babb, BSN, RN, was eight years old, she told her second-grade teacher she wanted to be a journalist. Her fascination with healthcare and biology led her down a different path into nursing, but ultimately, nursing brought her back to writing, driven by a desire to share the stories of powerful figures in the profession.

Payton blends her love of storytelling with years of experience in senior care, home health, mother-baby nursing, utilization management, clinical project management, and nurse operations leadership. Based in Phoenix, Arizona, she now writes about the people and possibilities shaping modern nursing. Her interview features and evergreen health articles have appeared in U.S. News & World Report, The Nursing Beat, Nurse Fern, GoodRx, Nurse Blake Magazine, and more.

When she’s not writing in the third person, she’s usually at the piano or plotting her next outdoor adventure.

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