A neurology nurse practitioner shares her vision for transforming women's healthcare by creating an integrated wellness practice that addresses hormonal health, metabolism, and aesthetics under one compassionate roof.
Her Story
About Rebecca
Rebecca Montejano serves as a Nurse Practitioner in Imperial, California, where her specialty is neurology. She sees 20 to 40 patients daily, focusing on conditions from pain to brain disorders, and emphasizes finding root causes through methods like injections rather than long-term opioids due to the opioid epidemic. Montejano earned two Associate's degrees from Arizona Western College, a Bachelor's degree from Grand Canyon University, and a Master's in Nursing from United States University. She also holds an arrhythmia certification with the American Heart Association for reading EKGs and maintains CPR certification. Prior to becoming an RN, she worked for 15 years in a Cardiopulmonary Department and later at a prison facility. Montejano attributes her achievements to the values instilled by her family, a supportive network, accepting help, and trusting herself while raising two children as a single mother. She values honesty, accountability, and ensuring actions match words, and advises aspiring nurses to build confidence, listen to intuition, and apply critical thinking.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Rebecca
01What do you attribute your success to?
The values I grew up with from my family and having a supportive family got me through, along with accepting help and trusting myself.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Nursing is a great field with a lot of watchful learning. Have confidence in yourself, listen to your intuition and that little voice telling you when something is wrong, and use critical thinking to match what's happening in real life to dictate your next steps.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The greatest challenge is the pain aspect due to the opioid epidemic. We are not long-term opioid prescribers, so it's difficult to get patients to understand that pills are not the treatment for back or neck pain. We focus on finding the root cause through injections or other methods rather than medication.
04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Being honest with others and with myself, accepting help, trusting myself, and ensuring that actions match words with full accountability. These values helped me achieve my goals as a single mother pursuing my career.
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Articles by Rebecca
Women's Health Beyond Pregnancy — The Clinic I Want to Build
Building a Women's Wellness Practice for the Whole Lifespan
I earned my nursing degree with two babies under five. During my bachelor's program, I worked full-time and went to school full-time. During my master's program, I worked full-time the first year, then part-time on weekends the second year, picking up shifts whenever we needed them and studying after my kids went to sleep.
Today, I'm a neurology nurse practitioner, seeing 20 to 40 patients a day. And every week, women tell me the same story: their labs came back "normal," they were told their symptoms were "just aging," and nobody connected the dots.
Hormones in one office. Metabolism in another. Skin, energy, and pain somewhere else—if they're addressed at all. Women's health has been treated like it begins and ends with pregnancy. This week, Washington announced a new Women's Health Division at the NIH and the first White House task force on women's health, focused on the whole lifespan, not just pregnancy. Whatever your politics, that framing is long overdue.
So here's what I'm building toward: a women's wellness practice under one roof, offering hormone health, weight management, peptides, tasteful Botox and fillers, and in-house skincare professionals. One team that listens first. One place where a woman doesn't have to shrink her symptoms to fit a 15-minute slot.
I'm not there yet. I'm building toward it the way I've built everything—one hard-earned step at a time. But I know exactly what it looks like because I know exactly who it's for. She's the woman I was: tired, dismissed, and still showing up.
— Rebecca Montejano, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC
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