Theresa Bruss, MSN, has joined Ministry Medical Group at Ministry Saint Mary’s Hospital urgent care and emergency departments, located at 2251 North Shore Drive in Rhinelander. As an urgent care nurse practitioner, Bruss provides care for patients with urgent, but not life-threatening, conditions.

She earned her master’s in nursing from Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Ind., and her bachelor’s in nursing from Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences in Orlando, Fla. She earned an associate degree in nursing from Nicolet Area Technical College in Rhinelander. She is certified in advanced cardiac life support and basic life support, and has completed the emergency nurse pediatric course.
In her spare time, Bruss enjoys being in the outdoors with her family and pets, hiking and spending time around the campfire.

The urgent care clinic at Ministry Saint Mary’s Hospital, adjacent to the emergency department, sees patients for problems related to earache, sore throat, cough, cold, headache, fever, toothache, urinary tract infection, vomiting, diarrhea, simple lacerations, minor burns and wound care. Board-certified physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are on staff from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays.

For more information on urgent care services available at Ministry Saint Mary’s Hospital in Rhinelander, call (715) 361-2510.