Caroline Yeakle, MSN, WHNP-BC

About

Caroline Yeakle covers three of CCRM’s Washington-area offices — the Northern Virginia main center in Vienna, Downtown D.C., and Rockville, Maryland — which is the widest geographic footprint on this nursing team. For a patient in a stimulated cycle, appointment frequency is the constraint, and a nurse practitioner who rotates between three locations makes it easier to be seen near home or work rather than at one fixed address.

Her certification is scoped to her patients. A WHNP-BC is a women’s health nurse practitioner credential: gynecologic care, reproductive health and preconception counseling across the lifespan, rather than the general family practice scope. She trained for it in three steps — a bachelor’s degree in health and exercise science at Wake Forest University, a master’s in nursing at the University of Maryland, then a post-master’s certificate at Drexel University to become certified in women’s health.

Before fertility care, Yeakle worked in perioperative services and in labor and delivery. That combination is a particular kind of preparation for an ART practice: the operating-room side maps onto egg retrieval and office procedures, and the delivery side maps onto what happens once a cycle succeeds. Her CCRM profile lists women’s health, perioperative services and labor and delivery as her practice areas; it does not itemize which fertility procedures she performs at each site, so ask at the first visit what she handles versus the physicians.

Clinical Expertise

• Women’s health assessment: gynecologic history, examination and preconception counseling within the WHNP scope, as part of a fertility evaluation
• Care around procedures: a perioperative services background applied to egg retrieval, transfer and office procedures — pre-procedure preparation and recovery
• Pregnancy-side follow-up: nursing experience in labor and delivery, relevant to patients who continue from a positive test into obstetric care
• Multi-site clinic coverage: patient visits at Vienna, Downtown D.C. and Rockville, so monitoring and follow-up do not require crossing the region
• Education and counseling: explaining visit schedules, medication steps and what to report between appointments

Why Choose Caroline Yeakle

A women’s health credential, not a general one. The WHNP-BC is certification specific to gynecologic and reproductive care, completed as post-master’s training at Drexel University after her nursing master’s at Maryland.

Three offices, one clinician. Vienna, D.C. and Rockville coverage is scheduling room during treatment cycles, when visits are frequent and time-sensitive.

Operating room before fertility clinic. Perioperative services experience is directly relevant to the procedural half of IVF — retrievals and the sedation that accompanies them.

She stays through the transition to obstetric care. Labor and delivery nursing background, plus the continuity of seeing patients at multiple regional sites.

Professional Affiliations

Board-certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP-BC), practicing on CCRM’s Washington-area staff at the Northern Virginia main center in Vienna, CCRM Fertility of Downtown D.C. and CCRM Fertility of Rockville, within the practice registered with SART as CCRM Virginia, LLC. Education: Wake Forest University (BS, health and exercise science); University of Maryland (MSN); Drexel University (post-master’s women’s health nurse practitioner certificate). Her credential is nursing board certification in women’s health, not physician certification in reproductive endocrinology and infertility.

Suitable For

• Patients starting a fertility workup who need a women’s health assessment and history
• Anyone scheduled for an egg retrieval or transfer, where perioperative nursing experience matters
• Patients choosing between the Vienna, D.C. and Rockville offices, who want the same nurse clinician either way
• Patients who want the visit calendar and medication steps explained before a cycle begins
• Patients moving from a successful cycle into early obstetric care