Part 1   When I got pregnant with my third child, I never tried to hide the fact that I was hoping for a little boy. I loved my two daughters more than anything, don't get me wrong, but still - I dreamed of having a little boy to add to the family. Whenever the topic arose and I mentioned my hopes of buying blue this time around, I was ...

Here I am trying to dig out in the New Year! How about you? Just days ago, the forecasters all predicted a huge snowstorm for us here in New England. Pfffft. It didn't happen; we just got a little bit of snow. Wouldn't you like to be able to be that wrong and have no real consequences? I'm dealing with that frustration right now, since Medicare ...

  Here at ADVANCE we're busy crunching the data from our recent 2007 National Salary and Workplace Survey of Nurse Practitioners. One number that should surprise no one is that salaries for male NPs are 10% higher than those for female nurse practitioners. This is actually good news when you consider that in 1997 the gender wage gap for ...

Take a deep breath.  Go ahead, no one's watching.  Take a deep breath.  Just like you tell your patients:  slowly in through your nose, then slowly out through your mouth.  All the way out, until you feel your shoulders relax.  When was the last time you did that?  If you're like me, it was probably a couple of ...