Our story
We call ourselves The Nurses Miller because … because we share the same last name and a philosophy around evidence-based care, despite having no relation.
We met as team members supporting a large hospital system and found that together we are a dynamic duo! We have a passion for facilitating collaboration and evidence-based practice that builds trust, peace, and excitement in practice change. Our goal for building The Nurses Miller is to help unit leaders and bedside staff find trust and satisfaction that the care they give to patients is the safest care they can give.
Deidre is the neonate to Lacey’s birthing person, and the other way around. We are nurse leaders, mothers, practice nerds, and best buds. Together we are experts in neonatal and perinatal healthcare, with experience in professional practice leadership and advanced practice nursing roles.
Lacey Rose Miller
DNP, CNS, APRN, RNC-OB, C-EFM
Owner, Co-Founder, Perinatal Practice Expert
Lacey Rose Miller is a perinatal clinical nurse specialist who has worked at multiple birthing hospitals and hospital systems in the Pacific Northwest.
Her background at the bedside consists of high-acuity and high-volume labor, delivery, obstetric operating room, recovery, and postpartum nursing care. Her graduate education from the University of Washington, afforded her a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree as a perinatal clinical nurse specialist, and a Global Health Graduate Certificate specializing in Women, Children and Adolescents.
She loves to collaboratively work on complex practice improvement projects for hospital systems that improve the outcomes of families and newborns, and she loves to support nurses caring for clinically complicated patients.
She is the current Legislative Coordinator for the Washington State Section of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses. She proudly serves on the Washington State Maternal Mortality Review Panel as their Lead member in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement.
Lacey is a mother of two young children. If she finds free time, she’ll want to spend it in her orchard, on a bike, or in a forest with a heavy backpack.
Deidre Miller
MSN-Ed, RNC-NIC, C-ONQS
Co-Founder, Lead Consultant, Neonatal Practice Expert
Deidre Miller is a nurse educator and practice specialist currently working at a hospital system with six family birth centers in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area.
She has worked as a NICU nurse and NICU nurse educator and program developer for 18+ years. She started her career at UCSF Children’s Hospital where she was a founding member of the Neuro-Intensive Care Nursery—a unit dedicated to the neuroprotection & development of newborns. She currently oversees the neonatal resuscitation program at Legacy’s 6 birth centers and 2 NICUs that includes training and practice development.
She also has special interests in quality improvement, policy development, and trauma informed care. She is passionate about translating evidence into practices in a way that ensures safe patient care, and ensuring nurses are working at the top of their scope—a known job satisfier.
Away from hospital work Deidre has served as a legal expert, President of the Northwest Perinatal Resource Network, is an adjunct professor at Concordia University’s nursing program, and co-chair of Oregon AWHONN’s conference committee.
Outside of work Deidre enjoys spending time with her family and is an avid runner—always training for an upcoming event. In the summer you’ll like find her at her cottage in Northern Michigan with her family.