Any advice on how to balance school and work when going for a graduate degree? Concerned for Finances, work/life/school balance, mental health etc.

I switched from managing an ICU to managing the informatics department so I could have flexibility in my schedule to allow for clinical time for my NP.
I was handcuffed for time plus being needed by everyone in the ICU 24x7.
Since at teh time Infomratice was a brand new department to get us set up with "A system" I created baby own scheduled and cold pull this set of changes off.

And of course being a guy with a wife to mostly manage the household and kids helped a lot! :-) so basically I am not much help for a big chunk of this question.