Janita Ward is a Family Nurse Practitioner with specialties in primary care, weight

management, men’s and women’s health for all ages. Her scope of practice includes — but is

not limited to — assessments of hypertension, cardiac disease, viral and bacterial illness,

asthma, COPD, arthritis, gastrointestinal disorders, psychosocial problems, women’s health,

thyroid disease and management of weight.

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Her professional medical career began shortly after graduating with her nursing degree, when

she joined the surgical team for the Eye Institute of West Florida. While employed as an RN for

several years, Janita provided excellent patient care to her preoperative and post-operative

patients. She then decided to advance her medical career in nursing, which led her to

BayCare at St. Anthony’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, working in the gastrointestinal and

pulmonary unit.

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While working full-time as an RN, Mrs. Ward earned her Bachelor’s Degree at South University

in 2016. Shortly after, she obtained her Master’s Degree of Nursing in 2018. Mrs. Ward also

serves as a Rape Examiner with the Suncoast Rape Center of Pinellas County.

She has since expanded her medical career as the founder and sole Nurse Practitioner of

Lotus Care and Wellness located in St. Petersburg, Fl