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Lauren Ervin received her BSN from the University of Virginia School of Nursing on a Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship. Upon graduation, she was commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy Nurse Corps. She served in the military from 2003-2008 at Naval Hospital Pensacola and Naval Medical Center San Diego providing nursing care to childbearing families. Ms. Ervin completed her MSN in Nurse-Midwifery from Frontier Nursing University in January 2014. She is currently a DNP student at Frontier Nursing University. Ms. Ervin accepted a position as a Certified Nurse-Midwife at Langley Air Force Base providing full-scope midwifery care to military service members and their dependents. Ms. Ervin’s interests are perinatal depression and the effects of military deployment on childbearing.