SUNA Spotlight: Robin Rye

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Faygo has nothing on the Michigan Institute of Urology.

As the beverage company thrives with their Rock & Rye soda, the MIU has their own sugar rush in Robin Rye, a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner as well as a certified urologic NP.

She was just the second NP in Michigan to be certified through CBUNA as well.

Robin is also a member of SUNA and has been active since 1994. She’s been with MIU since 1998 and before that was in a private practice for six years and a floor nurse at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, for a year.

“SUNA has been a great resource and a wonderful educational support to my career,” says Robin. “It’s also great networking with many wonderful people.”

Graduating from the University of Michigan with her BSN in 1991, Robin didn’t stop there. She completed the Certificate program for her Women's Health NP degree at Colorado in 1994 and followed that up with her MSN from the University of Phoenix five years later. Robin is currently enrolled at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., in the DNP program and plans to graduate next fall.

Urology is a field Robin has been involved with really since day one.

“I was looking for the perfect job,” recalls Robin. “A pharmaceutical rep informed me of ‘this great practice looking for some one just like you.’ I faxed my CV, interviewed the following day and started the next week.

”I really enjoy urology,” Robin goes on to say. “My partners are very supportive of my role as an NP and I am constantly learning new aspects of urologic nursing. I began with pediatrics, followed by incontinence, to male infertility, and now urologic oncology, as well as the basics.”

Robin has been married to a “really great guy,” Alan, 14 years this month and they have two wonderful children – Ally, 6, and Abigail, 4 next month – and a weimaraner named Madison.

“Life is good,” boasts Robin. “I can honestly say I am blessed.”