TUPELO, Mississippi—Nurse practitioner Eurieka Shumpert, FNP-C, recently joined North Mississippi Medical Center’s Heart and Vascular Institute. 

Shumpert earned an associate degree in nursing from Northeast Mississippi Community College in Booneville in 1989 and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Mississippi University for Women in Columbus in 1994.  She completed her master’s degree in nursing and family nurse practitioner training in 2018 from South University in Savannah, Georgia. 

Shumpert joined the NMMC staff as a registered nurse in 1989.  She has worked in the medical intensive care unit, cardiology outpatient stress testing services and cardiac catheterization laboratory.  She became a nurse practitioner with the NMMC Heart and Vascular Institute in August.

She lives in Shannon with her husband, Walter, and son, Brandon.  She attends church at Cross Pointe Ministries in Tupelo and enjoys spending time with her family.