Lissete Vega, APRN, MSN, FNP-BC
Lissete Vega is a board-certified nurse practitioner with the Division of Neurosurgery, part of the Brain Institute at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing at Florida International University in Miami. Ms. Vega then completed her nurse practitioner training with a master’s degree in nursing at the same institution.
Ms. Vega joined Nicklaus Children’s in 2018 as a registered nurse and provided care to neurosurgery inpatients in 5 Tower for three years. In 2022, Ms. Vega transitioned to the Vascular Access Team, where she served as an IV/PICC nurse for two years. After completing her nurse practitioner training in 2023, he began seeing patients with the Division of Neurosurgery.
Ms. Vega is a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, American Nurses Association, Florida Nurses Association, Society of Pediatric Nurses and Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing – Pi Alpha Chapter.
Ms. Vega is employed by Nicklaus Children’s Pediatric Specialists (NCPS), the multispecialty medical group practice of Nicklaus Children’s Health System. She is bilingual in English and Spanish.