"I work for a wonderful team of caring surgeons, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants that have the same commitment and passion to patients and their families as I do."
Amanda Soroka, CPNP 
Practice
Education
College: George Mason
Graduate school: University of Virginia
Bio
Soroka has been with CHKD since high school, starting out as a volunteer in the Child Life department.
As a rising senior in college, she partook in CHKD's nurse externship program and fell in love with pediatric nursing. She became a registered nurse at CHKD and worked on unit 7C.
In 2013, Soroka joined the Pediatric Surgery and Trauma Team as a Pediatric Nurse
Practitioner and collaborates closely
with all of the subspecialties within the CHKD organization.
Soroka works each day with this in mind:
"These are tiny humans. These are children. They believe in magic, they
play pretend, there is fairy dust in their IV bags and they cross their fingers
and they make wishes and that makes them more resilient than adults. They
recover faster, survive worse. They believe. In Peds, we have miracles and magic
and in Peds, anything is possible." -- Grey's Anatomy, 2010
Memberships
- Hampton Road Chapter, National
Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners