08.06.07
Hallelujah!
Exactly 14 weeks (yes, that’s weeks, not days) from when the NY State Education Department first received my applications for a nurse and nurse practitioner license, I have now received both! This process has been extremely frustrating, and has reduced me to tears on multiple occasions. It has also prevented me from starting my job on time and is causing me to commute back to NH to work while Adam starts school, which is annoying on multiple levels. However, now that I FINALLY have my nurse practitioner license I am going to write them a letter letting them know just how horrible the process was, and that it is certainly not helping the state’s nursing shortage. I think I’ll forward it on to Governor Spitzer while I’m at it.