Carmen Dalton is a Family Nurse Practitioner passionate about health, wellness, and integrative medicine. Her passion for nursing developed at the young age of five. Throughout her life she was always guided to care for others and eventually would go on to graduate with an Associate Degree of Nursing in 2015 from Yavapai College. She then completed a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2017 through Chamberlain College of Nursing. In 2022, she graduated from the University of Phoenix with a Master of Science in Nursing as a Family Nurse Practitioner. 
Carmen's nursing career began in alcohol and drug rehabilitation, and has since worked in various healthcare settings, including long-term care, dementia and behavioral health, acute care, medical/surgical and telemetry, progressive and intensive care, hospice, and finally as a primary care provider. While in acute care nursing at Dignity Health YRMC, she  participated in multiple quality assurance projects, mentored new graduate nurses, volunteered for Adopt a Family, the BMHS CNA program, and Relay for life. She sat as a board member for Clinical Ladder, Falls committee, Early Ambulation, Unit Based Council, and was a 2019 Nurse Excellence nominee. 
Carmen is an Arizona native, currently living in Yavapai County with her husband, and their two daughters. She is often found with her nose in a book or working on her own wellness in the gym, but she also thoroughly enjoys hunting, fishing, hiking, and camping outdoors. Carmen's passion for wellness reaches far beyond caring for a patient at the bedside. She aims to teach her patients how to live a quality life. She enjoys learning new concepts and teaching about disease prevention. She believes there is much more we can do to nurture the human body given the tools and knowledge.