Meet Alicia Watson Nurse Practitioner

Alicia Watson is a dual board-certified Nurse Practitioner specializing in family practice and adult-gerontology acute care. Her extensive clinical background allows her to provide comprehensive care across the lifespan while evaluating and managing complex, acute, and high-risk medical conditions.

Alicia earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from The University of Alabama’s Capstone College of Nursing, graduating magna cum laude. She later earned her Master of Science in Nursing from Samford University’s Moffett & Sanders School of Nursing, where she specialized as a Family Nurse Practitioner and received focused clinical training in family medicine and women’s health.

Committed to expanding her clinical expertise, Alicia completed a Post-Master’s Certificate as an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner at Brenau University’s Ivester College of Health Sciences and Nursing.

Her outpatient clinical training includes experience throughout South Georgia and Metro Atlanta in family medicine, women’s health, pediatrics, adult health, and gerontology. Her acute care training includes high-acuity clinical environments at Grady Memorial Hospital and Northeast Georgia Medical Center, with experience in critical care, medical-surgical intensive care, coronary care, cardiology critical care, and general cardiology.

Following her advanced practice training, Alicia has worked as a Nurse Practitioner in hospital medicine, critical care, and emergency medicine, caring for patients with complex, urgent, and high-risk medical needs. Before becoming a Nurse Practitioner, she built a strong clinical foundation through more than a decade of experience as a Registered Nurse, including extensive work in intensive and cardiovascular critical care.

Today, Alicia brings her broad clinical experience to Thrive Women’s Primary Care Clinic, where she is committed to delivering coordinated, accessible, and patient-centered care that connects primary care, women’s health, preventive medicine, and appropriate specialty collaboration.