Health advice for traveling families, made simple.
Imagine you are traveling with your young family to a different state or unfamiliar country, and one of the children wakes complaining of a sore throat. Your spouse has had diarrhea for 3 days, or your little one has a cut that might need stitches. These concerns are tough enough at home, let alone on another continent! What you need is a medical spouse — someone to talk through all your concerns with.
Should your child go on a field trip tomorrow? What can you take to rehydrate in a foreign land? How do we care for stitches after a day at the beach?
Welcome to Meraki Mobile Nursing! Your 24/7 resource for consultation and brainstorming on the medical issues that may arise while you and your family explore the world!
About Meraki
Michele’s husband survived open heart surgery, and with the money saved from preparing for the worst, she decided to be impetuous, brave, (or crazy!) and take her two small children to Italy for three months with a world schooling company called Boundless Life. The time spent there was magical, powerful, and busy! Amid the towering spires of Florence’s cathedrals and the well-worn cobbled streets of Pistoia, Michele encountered incredible people who sought medical advice or needed help navigating medical dilemmas. That’s when she realized there was a real need for traveling families to have someone committed to helping them decide the “next step” in health matters.
Our Heart & Soul
When Michele and the kids spent three months in Greece next, this community of like-minded explorers helped her find a path to what would become Meraki Mobile Nursing. She asked two of the most respected, intelligent, kindest nurses she knew to help create a foundation built on the joy of nursing and the passion of exploring this incredible world.
In Greek, the word Meraki is often translated as ‘doing something with soul, creativity, and love or the pride and care of putting the essence of yourself into your work.’ Ashley, Tricia and Michele absolutely love being nurses. For them, best part about nursing is using that nursing knowledge and skill to facilitate, promote, and enrich the lives of others.
We chose to use the upside-down Greek letter “psi” (the 23rd letter in the Modern Greek alphabet) as the M in Meraki because of the connection to the word psyche, which means ‘life,’ ‘soul,’ and ‘heart’ in Greek. We pour our heart and soul into Meraki Mobile Nursing, and we can’t wait to share our care with you!
With gratitude,
Michele, Tricia, and Ashley
Meet Our Team
Michele DiMattia, RN
Michele enjoyed 12 years as a paramedic in Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Boston, MA before she became a registered nurse. She enjoyed some motivational time as a Navy Corpsman for the United States Marine Corps during the Iraq War before falling in love with a short, bald, Italian man and following him to Boston, MA. After getting her ASN from Quincy College and BSN from Chamberlain University, she worked as an ER nurse for 10 years, the ICU for 1.5 years, and Labor and Delivery for 5 years before teaching at the undergraduate level and working in telemedical healthcare. Currently set to graduate with her MSN-Education and dual conferred with a HPED teaching certificate, Michele juggles homeschooling/world-schooling/frolicing everywhere with two children and two dogs, cooking from scratch, and playing tennis.
michele@merakimobilenursing.com
Tricia Kelley, MSN, RN
Tricia has been a registered nurse for over 17 years with experience ranging from orthopedics, oncology, the operating room, PACU, detox, rehabilitation, urology, memory care, medical/surgical, hospice, and telehealth. She graduated from UMASS Lowell with her BSN and a minor in nutrition. After working as a travel nurse at hospitals throughout the country for 5 years, Tricia settled back home in Massachusetts. At this time, she earned her MSN with a focus on leadership (CNL). Alongside working in acute care, she took on a supervisor role at an Assisted Living facility specialized to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Tricia has always enjoyed staying active and is currently working towards her yoga instructor certification. She has a passion for traveling/exploring, but more than anything loves being a mom and going on adventures with her 5 year-old son.
tricia@merakimobilenursing.com
Ashley Trickett, MPH, RN
Ashley has over 14 years of experience working as a registered nurse in acute care, ambulatory care, and telehealth. She received her BSN from the University of New Hampshire and worked for 3 years in Manchester, NH before hitting the road as a travel nurse. Ashley spent over 7 years, living and working in 11 states and 16 hospitals across the country, from Montana to California and Alaska to Hawaii before settling in Massachusetts to attend Boston University where she received her MPH in Global Health. Ashley is an avid traveler having visited all 50 states and 27 countries (and counting!). In her free time she enjoys hiking, skiing, and reading a good book.
ashley@merakimobilenursing.com