Kandace Jackson Balances Pediatric Intensive Care and Motherhood in Miami
A registered nurse since 2015 and a nurse practitioner since 2025, the mom of two works in pediatric intensive care at Jackson Memorial and keeps her feed refreshingly real.
Kandace Jackson is a pediatric nurse practitioner in Miami, Florida, who works in pediatric intensive care at Jackson Memorial Hospital, the public hospital where she once trained as a nursing student, more than a decade ago. Off shift, she is a wife, a mom of two and the voice behind @KayAllysee, where working-mom life gets told with more honesty than polish.
The pairing is less unlikely than it sounds. Few people know the distance between a long shift and a bedtime routine better than a nurse who goes home to small children of her own.
A nurse first
Jackson earned her nursing degree at Barry University, and her clinical rotations read like a tour of South Florida medicine. She learned the basics at Aventura Hospital, worked a medical-surgical floor at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, and spent a semester on the burn and trauma unit at Jackson Memorial, a unit that cared for children and adults alike. Her last rotation was the high-acuity one, in the intensive care pods at Baptist Health's Kendall hospital, rotating through the cardiac, neurological and medical-surgical units where care is at its most critical.
She has held a Florida registered nurse license since 2015. In 2025 she added the advanced practice license that made her a nurse practitioner, and she is now working toward her doctorate.
Back to Jackson, for the children
Today Jackson's work is with children in intensive care. Jackson Memorial's children's hospital, Holtz, runs a 30-bed pediatric intensive care unit on the hospital's campus near downtown Miami. It is demanding, specialized work, and it is the kind of care families hope they never need and are grateful for when they do.
The feed, kept real
At home and online, Jackson keeps the tone light on purpose. Her Instagram, with nearly 4,000 followers, promises "unserious mom humor," wellness and real life, and her short videos deliver it: the nurse who knows exactly what flu season is about to bring, the CPR-class joke only a clinician could write, the mom running on an empty gas tank past every station on the way home. Her Linktree sums up the rest: motherhood, wellness, beauty and lifestyle, with real life, helpful tips and her favorite finds.
The feed travels, too. A South Africa highlight sits on her profile, and her photos run to sunshine and color: an orange dress against a blue bay, a khaki safari look with the hat in hand.
For the parents who follow her, the appeal is simple. The person making them laugh about the chaos of raising two children is the same one who spends her working hours caring for other people's.
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Highlights
Who is Kandace Jackson?
Kandace Jackson is a pediatric nurse practitioner in Miami, Florida, working in pediatric intensive care at Jackson Memorial Hospital, and a mom of two who shares working-mom life on Instagram as @KayAllysee.
Is Kandace Jackson a licensed nurse practitioner?
Yes. Florida licensed her as an advanced practice registered nurse in 2025, and she has been a registered nurse since 2015.
Where did Kandace Jackson study nursing?
She earned her nursing degree at Barry University, with clinical rotations at Jackson Memorial, Baptist Health's Kendall hospital and other South Florida hospitals.
