A Nurse Practitioner's View

I have certainly been keeping myself busy these days! First, I have been immensely busy at my clinical site. Hundreds of flu shots have been given in the last few weeks and I have been inundated with the change of season upper respiratory infections and allergies in what seems like everyone has (really, the care is largely supportive and conservative. I am a big fan of saline nasal irrigation!)  Second, school work continues in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology post graduate certificate program as Clinician Leader that I am enrolled in. I am considered full-time and plan on finishing up in May 2012. The amount of work has been intense (an intensity that I thought I was done with following completion of the DNP this past May!) The course work isn't as demanding as the DNP, but there is just so much of it that is condensed into a relatively short time frame.  Third, I am running for Chair-Elect in the Nurse Practitioner Associa...