Dr. Traci Richards Burks is a Nurse Practitioner at the Overton Brooks VAMC in Shreveport, LA. She received a nursing degree, BSN, at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Ten years later I received my MSN, Family Nurse Practitioner degree from Samford University. My terminal degree is a Doctorate in Health Administration from the University of Phoenix in twenty thirteen. In May of twenty nineteen, completed her Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner from Northwestern State University. Clinically, her work is in infectious disease, internal medicine, Psychiatric Mental Health, and telehealth. Her major duties include assessment with history and physicals, evaluation, diagnosing, prescribing and management of acute and chronic illnesses medical and Psychiatric. Traci's philosophy for life is for people to strive beyond where they think they can go. Never quit. Believe in yourself and you will be what you believe. She believes that her style of instruction is to nurture a student by challenging their thought process.