Cathryn Smith
04:50:01 PM
Welcome, and thank you for taking time out of your evening to join us for the Nurse-Midwifery Information Session. We will get started shortly.
We'll give folks just another minute or so to get logged in and then we will get started.
All right. Well, while folks are getting logged in, I'll just take a minute and introduce myself. My name is Katie Smith, and I am an enrollment service advisor here at the University of Cincinnati. I've been here about five years. This marks my fifth year.
Absolutely love it. I've worked with the graduate nursing program my entire time here, so that's pretty cool.
And presenting with me this evening is Doctor Lisa Hatchie.
So, Doctor Hatchie, would you like to say anything?
Hi everyone, welcome. We're excited to have you here and feel free to ask questions and hopefully you will go walk away with, you know, the information that you came for. We're excited to have you.
Marion M.
05:01:55 PM
Good Evening
Awesome, wonderful. Well, everyone there is, as Doctor Hachi said, there is a questions tab. So feel free as we're presenting, feel free to type in any questions. We normally try to monitor that as we're going through the presentation so that we can kind of talk about it right then and there. But if we do miss a question by chance, we'll definitely go through it one more time at the very end of the presentation.
So again, thank you all so much for joining us this evening.
So what we'll do is just kind of spend some time going over our program, how it's structured and set up. And then you'll get to hear from Doctor Hatchey as well. We'll talk about the application process, tuition and again, open it up for question and answer.
So the College of Nursing here at the University of Cincinnati uses creative creativity of leveraging technology to transform healthcare partnerships with the patients that we serve. The mission of the College of Nursing is to develop nurse leaders who are empowered.
To generate, explore and apply nursing knowledge in the ever evolving healthcare field.
And you can see here the core values of the College of Nursing as well Collaboration, accountability, integrity, respect and excellence.
Couple of fun facts about the College of Nursing. The College of Nursing was the first in the nation to offer a Bachelor's of Science and Nursing degree. I believe that was 1916 if I remember correctly.
As a whole, the College of Nursing has been providing online graduate level nursing courses since 2007. So when COVID hit honestly for our students it was very much business as usual. There was no.
Rush to, you know, hurry up and get courses into an online format. It was very business as usual.
Hi, Katie. I'm sorry there is just quite an echo, I don't know if.
I'm the only one getting that. Or if we need to ask people to mute themselves.
People that that can talk, so there should be no need for a for a student to to have a mic on.
I just don't know what they're.
So it might just be your end 'cause I don't hear an echo when you talk.
Jessica W.
05:04:31 PM
I don’t hear an echo
But thank you for that. So I'm sorry. You could Lisa, while I'm going through these first couple slides, if you want to like log out and log back in and see if that helps, you could try that or just suffer through.
Don't look like anyone else is hearing that echo. I, Jessica just posted in here so it's just me and now I don't hear it so.
OK. Well, thanks for that.
Lyzvette R.
05:05:18 PM
It sounds clear
So about 84% of our nursing students are actually in their online in an online program here at the College of Nursing. I think one thing that really sets our program apart from other institutions is that all of our full time faculty are certified and licensed in the specialty in which they teach. So they're able to bring those experiences.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Doctor Hatchie full time faculty also have to practice at least one day a week in a clinical setting as well.
Faculty are required to practice in various settings, right? So we keep current with our clinical practice as well as many of us are certified in nursing education and.
Various other things or have fellowship, so we keep busy and we keep current so.
So our online students here at the university have many layers of support. Even though you're an online student, we don't want you to start the program and feel, you know, like you've been just thrown into the deep end and you don't know what's going on. So on the front end, every student will have an assigned enrollment service advisor. It could be myself or one of my colleagues.
We are here to educate you about the program and ultimately help determine if our school is a good fit for you.
We will assist you throughout the entire application process from start to finish. Make sure you get everything in that you need.
Once admitted because let's be optimistic.
Students will have a Student Success Coordinator and that is someone who will work with you from the time that you have been admitted to the university until you walk across that stage at graduation.
So those are the individuals who, if you have any programmatic questions, maybe you need to take a semester off to to have a baby yourself or care for an I'll family member.
They will work with faculty in adjusting your student schema. We offer courses every single semester, so there should be no problem.
And picking up kind of right where you left off.
Sandra B.
05:08:05 PM
Are talking?
With respect to clinicals, we do encourage our students to 1st explore their professional network to locate and secure a clinical site or preceptor. If you do have a difficult time, students are also assigned A clinical site coordinator and that's someone who can step in and help offer some assistance.
Cathryn Smith
05:08:15 PM
Sandra, can you hear us?
Sorry about that. Maybe there is some sound issues going on. So again that clinical site coordinator will be able to assist you with any clinical questions and concerns you may have. You will also of course have.
Your program director as well.
They are a fantastic resource.
Your faculty as well are a great resource.
Often times our faculty are very upfront and transparent. You know, here's my office hours. Here's when I'm available. You know, feel free to call or text me, but please, you know, watch what time it is. You know, not not past, you know, 10:00 PM or something. But ultimately, you know, our faculty really want our students to be successful in the program.
Give me just a moment. I'm going to give Sandra here a suggestion.
Cathryn Smith
05:09:18 PM
Sandra, try logging out, and then back in.
And finally, students will also have.
Maddie S.
05:09:42 PM
I can’t hear Dr. Hachey. Sorry!
A financial aid support staff as well, so that individual works solely with the online student population. So they're very accustomed to our population and are able to help.
OK, Maddie, so Doctor Hatchie isn't talking just yet. Let's do a quick sound check real quickly since it sounds like we're having some audio issues. Again, Doctor Hatchie, go ahead and take it over for a minute.
OK. Can you hear me, Maddie?
Sandra B.
05:10:06 PM
I heard Lisa, but not you.
Maddie S.
05:10:18 PM
I can now! Thank you.
Jessica W.
05:10:21 PM
I can hear both of you
But she it sounds like Sandra can't hear you. Catherine, she can hear me now she can.
Awesome. OK. Well, we'll just kind of keep one of us on mute and the other will talk at when the other one's on mute.
Of course she can't hear me if I go to talk to her.
That she can hear me. Katie, I'm going to leave my mic on and let's see if that helps.
Cathryn Smith
05:10:58 PM
Sandra, the presentation will be emailed out, and I will work with our IT department to work on sound.
Sandra B.
05:11:00 PM
I can’t
All right. Let me go forward here to the next slide, folks. So sorry about the technological issues.
But at this point, I'm going to turn it over to Doctor Hatchie. Feel free to introduce yourself, give some background about you, kind of where you are, all the wonderful things that you do. And if you just want to let me know when you're ready for me to progress to the next slide, just give me a little wave or something and I'll, I'll move forward for you.
OK, Thank you, Katie. Well, as Katie said and I did a brief introduction. My name is Doctor Lisa Hashi. I am a nurse midwife and I have been a nurse midwife since 1999. I was a graduate of the second cohort here at the University of Cincinnati.
And practiced for Oh my goodness, like 17 years, full scope as a midwife in a variety of settings.
Mostly academic centers. I was at the Cleveland Clinic and then at Wayne State up in Detroit at the NIH. But I've also practiced in the Amish community here in Ohio and community health centers. So that's my clinical background. And I joined the University of Cincinnati as full-time faculty 9 years ago, so this is my 9th year.
Being faculty and then became program director two years ago.
So been doing this quite a while. We have just excellent, excellent faculty with a background clinically, academically.
And also in research aspects I want to echo.
A couple of points that Katie had made.
Faculty is here to support you through the program from the beginning of the application process all the way through.
Until graduation and ultimately when you take your certification exam to become licensed, certified and then licensed as a nurse midwife. I have to tell you right now, our graduating class in December. I'm starting to hear back from them because they're all taking their certification exams and 100% have said I have felt nothing but support from the faculty and staff and everyone at the University of Cincinnati.
And then they all said that they felt that the program prepared them for the certification and entry into becoming an advanced practice nurse and midwife. So, you know, that felt really good to hear that. But also on the other end, as the new semester is beginning here, I'm hearing from students telling me everyone here has been so wonderful, they're answering questions.
Availability. Accessibility.
And I think we really pride ourselves here and specifically in our programs, Nurse midwifery as well as the Women's Health program that we're here to support students.
Cathryn Smith
05:14:23 PM
Sandra, is your sound working ok now?
And know that it is a journey to get to where you want to go. So anyway, I just wanted to again the layers of support Katie and and echo what you have been saying so.
Do you want to go ahead and move forward?
Again, the whole point of from the beginning of your application.
To begin the program all the way through until graduation, in which you take your When you graduate, you take your comps, which is part of the graduation and then your certification. Our whole goal is to prepare you for that.
And with the outcome that you're going to be certified and out there.
I'm ready to become an entry level nurse midwife.
OK, so many people don't know that HERSA Health Resources Services Administration designates nurse midwives nationally as primary care health providers, and we are able to take care of women from the beginning.
And all the way through menopause, so throughout that entire lifespan.
And the program does prepare you from that for that and.
The the courses that you will take will be foundational courses. You will have advanced pharmacology, anatomy and Physiology, reproductive anatomy and Physiology, and then pregnancy, birth, postpartum and newborn care, as well as primary care. All of those are designed to prepare you for your role as a nurse, midwife, and to take, as it says here, the Midwifery Certification Board.
AMCB to become certified.
We admit nurses that have a Bachelor's of Science in nursing and ideally one year of experience as an RN in labor and delivery, it's preferred or some aspect of OBGYN or Women's Health.
And the and the program is entirely online for nurse midwives.
Students, we do have two on site Clinical Skills Intensives. That is a requirement of the program in which you come to Cincinnati.
And it is very intensive. We go over birth maneuvers, high risk births, complicated births, all sorts of things. Suturing so a lot of skills that you will need practically while you're in your practicum courses, and then preparing you again for practice.
You can move forward, Katie.
I'm not going to read this to you. However this these are the schemas. We have two different schemas. One is a full time track which is 6 semesters and then we have a part-time track which is I'm sorry, full time track is 6 semesters and then the part time is 8 semesters.
Where the courses are broken down as you can see here. So plan A.
6 semesters is quite a heavy load, so if you're working and and juggling family and other responsibilities, just be prepared that it is quite a heavy load. But you start with your foundational courses and then in semester 3 you begin your practicum courses in primary care and Women's Health and move forward through that. So you have 4 practicum semesters.
It says 748, but I believe it's 762. Katie. We've increased the numbers.
784 I think you're right it it's superimposed.
You transposed it. OK, OK.
I think, I think it got transposed, I'll, I'll note that. Thank you, Lisa.
OK. And so with that said, those are the minimum number of hours.
In order to graduate, many, many of our students get a lot more hours, especially when you're in the intrapartum.
Last two semesters of intrapartum and then integration, where you're putting it all together. And the reason for that is anyone who's worked in labor and delivery knows you can't plan when a baby's going to be born.
And how long that labor is going to be in the management of that labor?
So many come out with quite a few more clinical hours than that Durst midwifery, unlike many of the other NP programs.
Is competency based so the American College of Nurse Educators for Nurse Midwifery.
Has designated a certain number of.
Within the competency area, so that would be primary care gynecological.
Labor management first postpartum and newborn care that you are expected to have and again competency minimum number that we want you to obtain and many of our students have triple or quadruple that number.
Of those clinical experiences.
And feel well prepared again to enter into practice.
So I think that's it, Katie. I think we covered it.
OK, so appropriate preceptors for the Nurse midwifery program, you did transpose it. There's the 784 down there.
So anyway, the requirements for preceptors when they have to have an unrestricted license.
And both the student and the preceptor need unrestricted license, meaning they don't have.
Anything on there from the state in which they are licensed?
Marion M.
05:21:10 PM
What if someone is transferring?
You typically begin full time track in your third semester as I had mentioned and.
Cathryn Smith
05:21:32 PM
@Marion, we do allow students to transfer a max of 12 semester hours from a regionally and nursing accredited institution.
Students are encouraged to seek out their own preceptors and begin their networking even prior to entering into the the program. So if you work with nurse midwives or find the affiliate in your your area.
And ask if you can attend an affiliate meeting and and let them know that you're considering. Midwives are very welcoming. We embrace our students and we want to bring you into the fold.
And have you part of this journey? And we like to be part of your journey as well.
So we also have clinical site coordinator who helps you in locating, we have list of preceptors.
Pretty much all around the country there are a few states in which we don't have students and that is pretty much state regulated.
And beyond our control, but we do have a clinical psych coordinator who is very, very helpful.
With assisting students with finding a preceptor.
Cathryn Smith
05:22:24 PM
The transfer process would not happen until a student has applied and been admitted to the University. Faculty would require a full course syllabus for any course you want to consider for review.
So all the clinical sites must be community based meaning.
Thanks Katie for answering that question.
Must be community based, so community health centers you can be.
In a hospital and there are certain your first clinical practicum first and 2nd is outpatient, so there won't be any inpatient, OK.
Marion M.
05:23:07 PM
Thank you.
So that would be your primary care in your gynecology. And then your second clinical practicum would be antenatal, in which you are in a outpatient setting, doing both antenatal and gynecology, and then your last two semesters are both inpatient and outpatient where you begin your births.
Preceptors are required to be active.
Either nurse practitioner, nurse, midwife, physician, either an MD or ADO or an APRN.
I think that's it. You can go ahead and move forward, Katie. Thank you.
And so we do have this list. It's very tiny. I can't read it, but it does let you know the type of clinical experiences that I mentioned. So again, your first semester is primary care and GYN, your second semester would be building upon that. But the focus is antenatal. You can't be in an OBGYN.
Setting and say I'm just going to see antenatal patients. You need to see antenatal primary care and gynecology in that setting. So essentially it's a designated outpatient.
Your last two semesters are inpatient as well as some outpatient experience.
So this document that Katie can provide to you also shows the appropriate preceptors. One thing that is unique about the midwifery program, and again this is designated by.
Acme and the American College of Nurse Midwives is we do want.
Of your experiences to be with a midwife, otherwise you can have a blend of those with physicians or MPs, but we do want you to have that experience of the midwifery process, so.
I think that was the important part.
All right. Katie, you can move forward.
All right. And I will take it back over for a little bit.
So as Doctor Hashi mentioned, we have some prerequisites for our program, one of which is that students must have a Bachelors of Science in Nursing from a regionally and Nursing accredited institution.
We do like to see a 3.0 GPA or higher.
We also require that our students have completed an undergraduate.
Statistics course with a grade of C or higher.
And also mentioned previously mentioned was that students must have at least one year of RN experience and labor and delivery. Mom, baby, NICU type experience is preferred.
If there are any students on the call who are currently enrolled in our.
Online RN to BSN program. Definitely make sure you connect with your enrollment service advisor to talk about the different admission options that might be available to you.
So our application process can be found online. It's through a third party called Nursing Cast. So nursingcas.org is the website.
And it's a very holistic review process. So faculty look at every single component of the application during that review process. And it is a committee that reviews all of our applications here at the university. So again, we need to see your BSN, the actual conferred degree. So if you're in your last semester, we actually need to see the full conferral date listed on your transcript in order to review your application.
We require three professional professional letters of recommendation.
At least one from a current supervisor.
If at all possible, you can use a woman's health nurse practitioner, a nurse midwife.
An MD A Do think of individuals who are in that professional setting who who you have worked with as opposed to maybe a lifelong friend who is a is a midwife, but you've never worked with them. So make sure it's an it's a professional reference who has seen your work abilities.
Bedside or or whatever the case may be, so it needs to be a professional reference.
We do require official transcripts from every single college or university that you attended. So if you maybe did some prerequisites at a Community College and then transferred them into let's say ABC University, even though they appear on ABC University Transcript as transfer credit, we still need that original Community College transcript. It is a requirement that we have all official transcripts.
And those official transcripts will be sent directly to nursing cast, as opposed to here at the University of Cincinnati.
We require that students upload a copy of their RN license. We do need to see an active, unencumbered RN license in the state that you reside.
We require a professional resume or CV and I know.
Should seem intuitive, but sometimes it's not. So please make sure that you take the time to update your resume.
If you are a member or part of any professional organizations.
You've done professional development. You know, maybe you've taken some additional.
Certifications for, you know, fetal monitoring or.
Lactation consultant you know, please make sure that you you put that on your resume because.
As much as I would love to be a mind reader, I'm not. I don't know faculty aren't either. But take the time to update that so that we can really, you know, see what you've been doing in your career to help separate you from from other applicants. So put your best foot forward with that resume.
And that also goes for did you have something you'd like to add, Doctor Hatchie?
I'm going to let you finish this, but before you progress I'd like to, if you don't mind, just touch a little bit on these.
Yeah, go right ahead, please. Yeah.
Oh, are you finished with this?
Yeah, No, go ahead, Tag along.
OK, I have my list of notes here as you were talking. And so just as Katie said, put your best foot forward, OK?
We would like to see a 3.0 GPA in undergrad. There is nothing to prevent you from.
You know, submitting your application if say you have like a 2.85 or something, OK, because we do the holistic review process.
And and it is a committee that looks at this, just know that if you are at that 2.8 the scoring will be different and so every other component.
We're talking about needs to be stellar. Put your best effort into that. We all understand.
You know, there are times when you first begin undergrad. It's exciting. You're adjusting to a whole different thing going from high school or whatever into college, and we understand sometimes you have a rough semester.
Starting out and it's really hard to come back from that. We get it. Various things happen.
During undergrad and if that's the case.
And you are slightly below that 3.0. We are looking at everything else. So I'm going to touch a little bit on this for you, OK. The three professional references as Katie mentioned, at least one from a current supervisor, someone who knows your integrity, your professional demeanor, how you interact with patients as well as your peers and your contribution to the unit or whatever.
Wherever you are working.
OK. In addition to that, I would like to see when we review this that possibly an APRN and P Women's Health Nurse Practitioner and ideally A midwife if you've worked with any of them.
To write a letter of reference for you. OK, that holds weight. All of that holds weight, and then possibly.
Maybe an MD or ADO or previous faculty.
That would would write that for you. What we don't want to see a lot of is a peer reference. OK, so yes, I've worked with, I'm going to call you out, Marian. I've worked with Marion for the past two years. She's a stellar nurse. That's a peer reference. That would be great if you want to submit a fourth reference, because nothing's preventing you from submitting a fourth reference. OK, but we would like to see at least three from.
From that professional level that you're trying to?
Achieve. OK, All right. So moving on to the next one, I want to touch on your professional resume.
Cathryn Smith
05:33:11 PM
We need a minimum of three professional, and you can have up to 6 references total, for example a peer.
Curriculum Vitae is if you have some academic in your background but your professional resume, please make it current OK and address the the areas of.
Not just your work history, not just your education. It would always be who you are, your address, that sort of thing, your credentials. And then it would be your education.
Then your work history and then under that, hey, did you attend or present at the March of Dimes? OK, that would be under professional development or it could also be under scholarship.
Were you Are you a member of any professional organization? Anything that goes above and beyond your basic requirement for your job as a nurse? OK, so we know that if you work labor and delivery, all nurses are required to have electronic fetal monitoring.
Marion M.
05:34:12 PM
Sorry Dr. Hachey, I couldn't hear you.
BSBLS right, You need to have basic life support.
Oh, Marion can't hear me.
So you won't have to have basic life support and electronic fetal monitoring if you are in. If you are in labor and delivery or mother baby, however, you can have a certification in high risk.
Obstetrics. Or you can have lactation.
Consultant or something above and beyond the minimum requirement for your job that really sets you apart from the field.
OK. And then another thing is join a professional organization.
Cathryn Smith
05:35:04 PM
@Marion, we will be sending this recording out, and I will triple check audio before we send.
For nurses in OB Gen. or labor and delivery, it's A1 participate with March of Dimes.
All of those, So make sure that you do that now from a reviewer's perspective and the committee looking at applicants. We don't know if you joined a one yesterday or if you've been an A1 member for three years.
OK. It just shows that you are a member of a one you attend, possibly do a poster presentation or something. Highlight all of those things if you are involved in committees at your place of employment some of us were peer review committee for.
Adverse outcomes or something like that, or you helped, you are on a task force.
At your place of employment, please highlight those things.
OK. Or that you have done any volunteer work?
All of those add weight, OK, to your professional development and and your resume and things that we are looking at as reviewers, OK? And then finally your goal statement, OK, tell your story, tell your journey to get here. What really is it that inspired you to want to become a nurse midwife?
Marion M.
05:36:26 PM
Ok Cathryn, thank you.
And advance your career. Is that your passion of wanting to be part of or contribute to?
You know, outcomes, health outcomes for mothers, babies.
That you just want to not just you just want to, but that you want to support.
Women, you know, through the birth experience, you know tell your story that holds weight and and again it is your story, OK, it's unique to you and what brought you to this point so.
Anyway, Katie, thank you for letting me jump in and and take over for a moment, but those are the things that we look at as individual reviewers.
And also as committee and we do talk about it, so, OK.
No, absolutely. Thank you for taking over. I think it's fantastic that they can hear directly from you, you know an individual on the committee and and one of your reviewers, I mean you, you know what you're looking for. So I think that's fantastic.
The very last portion of the application process.
Is something called coursework entry or transcript entry. So every course that you have completed throughout your college career.
Needs to be input into the application itself.
So there's two different options for that. You can enter the courses on your own.
Just in full transparency, I entered my bachelor's degree into nursing cast purely to understand, you know what, you know how I can help my students if they get stuck in in a certain area.
Took me about 45 minutes to enter my bachelor's degree, so it wasn't horrible.
But you know it it just basic data entry.
The second option is what's called professional transcript entry. If you elect to go that route, you would pay nursing cast to enter the courses on your behalf. So you will still request to have those transcripts sent or delivered to nursing Cast.
Once they arrive, Nursing cast would enter those courses for you. After they complete the entry, you will be able to approve those courses. They'll e-mail you and say hey Katie, we completed all of your courses for you. Please take a minute and make sure we got everything in here correctly.
You know, let's make sure we didn't give you underwater basket weaving as you're elective.
Those are the two different options. And I know it sounds a little bit redundant since you are sending the official transcription, but as a transcript analyst myself, I can tell you when transcripts are scanned into a system, you see all these beautiful watermarks across the page. This is like official transcript. Do not copy official transcript, do not copy hundreds of thousands of times on an 8 1/2 by 11 piece of paper and it makes it really difficult on a computer screen.
To read the watermark with with the print on top of it. So that is part of the reason why we have students enter the coursework entry. It assists our faculty and really it benefits you in that it it can help them have have a quicker turn around on reading those applications because if you can imagine getting 20 or 30 applications.
And and having to, you know, read those watermarked transcripts.
So I promise there's a reason why that coursework entry is required.
So just kind of wrapping up that application process, so there is an $80.00 nursing cast application fee. We are currently offering waivers for the summer 2024 and also fall 2024 cohort.
So what you would do is you would e-mail your assigned enrollment Service advisor when you're ready to submit your application. Just a simple screenshot showing every section of the application completed.
And we'll be able to e-mail you an individualized coupon code and that will waive the $80.00 nursing cast application fee for you.
You do have the ability to submit your application while you're waiting on transcripts to arrive at Nursing Cast, and also your references to complete that evaluation process.
Students, once we have all the components of your application.
Your application will reach what's called a verified status, and that's when nursing cast has taken the time to go over your application with a fine tooth comb and ensuring that we have every single component of your application. Kind of all of your ducts are in a row and you're ready for faculty review.
We send completed applications out once a week for faculty review, so once we have everything.
Will present your application for a review. We don't hold everything until the final deadline and then send everything out at one time, so we do keep things moving.
After your application reaches that verified status, there is a secondary.
University of Cincinnati application You do not need to upload any additional documents. Everything that you've submitted to Nursing Cast is exactly what faculty are going to review and it'll be imported here at the University of Cincinnati.
We are also currently waiving the $65 Graduate School application fee.
For the University of Cincinnati. So in theory you could apply completely for free if you're able to take advantage of that nursing cash waiver and the University of Cincinnati fee being waived right now.
So after your application reaches that verified status, you're you should have an admission decision.
It says one to three weeks. We're getting to a little bit of a busy time, so I'm going to stay closer to the two to three weeks.
Maybe four weeks, kind of depending on how many applications we've received during that influx period.
But again, we do try to keep things moving for our students.
Here's a quick breakdown of the tuition and fees. So for students who live in the state of Ohio, it's $892 per credit hour.
And for students who live outside of the state of Ohio, it's only $15.00 more per credit hour at $907.00 an hour.
So rest assured we're not price gouging you thousands and thousands of dollars for living outside of the state of Ohio. Over here you'll see a quick snapshot of the in state tuition total and the out of state tuition total. I believe this total is based on the full time schema. So the part time schema it's just a hair bit more I want to say for the out of state total it's about 47,000, it's just a little bit more and for the in state total.
It's a hair bit more at 40s, low 46.
But feel free to get in touch with your enrollment service advisor.
And we have a full tuition breakdown for both full time and part time that we're more than happy to e-mail our students. We're very transparent about tuition and fees. There is a blood borne pathogen fee which is lumped into this total tuition total that you see there that is just assessed once an academic year. So it's every 3rd semester that you'll see that.
The midwifery program, it is eligible for the student of federal financial aid. So the Free Application for Federal Student Financial Aid, it is eligible.
If you have military benefits, I highly encourage you to reach out to your regional VA representative to see if our program is eligible.
To to have your VA benefits cover, cover the cost of the program.
Additionally, we do have payment plans available for all of our programs, all of our online programs here at the university.
What that does is it takes the semester total, let's say $5000, and it splits it up into three equal payments over the course of that semester. So you would make 3 equal payments of.
$1666.66 three times over the semester.
Umm, so a little bit higher of a payment, but at the end of that semester it's gonna be completely paid off, which is fantastic.
We also have a very unique scholarship program. It's called the University to Business Scholarship program.
Just in short and very brief, it is a program where we here at the University of Cincinnati partner with your employer. This is something that is at no cost to your employer.
Think of it as a benefit. You get dental benefits, you get vision benefits, you get healthcare benefits. It's just an additional benefit and the scholarship.
Is able to be applied towards your tuition costs here at the university. So if you are interested just you know you can Google university to business, you know University of Cincinnati, right now we have well over 100 partnerships all across the country.
Partners is Mercy Bon secours.
Cleveland Clinic. So for individuals that are, you know, employed at those institutions, you could be looking at a scholarship, which is very nice.
We do have a few state restrictions and this is a result of either Department of Higher Education regulation.
Changes, or potentially that the state does not allow.
What we call distant learning clinical to be performed in that particular state. So due to those particular issues or reasons, we are not able to accept applicants from the state of Arizona, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Tennessee.
So please don't reside there so that you can still come here.
Before we open it up for question and answer, there's one more hidden slide after this that I forgot about the other night, so I just want to cover this before we do questions and answer. So the application deadline for summer 2024 is March 15th at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time. So you need to submit before that time frame and what we need is your uploaded resume or CV, your personal statement.
Your RN license. You need to at least have listed the names and contact information for a minimum three professional references. You can upload up to six individuals, but we need those three professional.
The coursework entry either needs to be completed by yourself or you opt to pay nursing casts to enter the courses for you.
And again, you can submit before your transcripts arrive at the university.
Everything needs to be in by April 1st. So your transcripts need to be received by April first, your references need to be received by April 1st, and that coursework entry that nursing cast would complete for you needs to be completed by April 1st. So that gives us a good window of time for your application to hit that verified status. Have faculty review your application.
And it gives you a good window of time to meet with your student success coordinator to get registered for classes.
So I didn't want to forget that slide like I almost did the other night.
So at this point, I know we've kind of been answering some questions as we've been going along. But at this point, I would like to open it up for any questions that you have for either myself about the the program application process and of course our our esteemed guest of honor Doctor Hachi as well who's here with all the knowledge.
OK. Do they have the floor?
They have the floor. I'm watching the question box. We'll we'll see if some questions start rolling in.
Or is it just a text box OK?
Just a text box. Just a text box.
Hopefully they're just typing away right now.
Maybe we answered all their questions.
Maybe we'll see. Here, let me.
I do see a question just came in. Are there any virtual visits or site visits to the to the campus for the program?
I'm not sure is that pre application or?
I would assume like once the students like been admitted and they're enrolled in the program, so I think they're talking about like CSI one and CSI two is is probably what they're questioning.
Yes, the CSI one and CSI two. Actually CSI one is now remote. We found that we accomplished based on my research and and data that students in CSI one beginning your first.
Practicum course actually did better in an online environment where we had guest speakers coming and provided you all the information and training that you needed.
Because, as you know, travel can sometimes be kind of crazy.
And we just found that students were very were able to focus and be more comfortable and absorb and not reach that point of saturation before all the information was delivered over a two day period.
So there is the actual on site and for CSI two. I don't know why. I thought maybe there was some sort of tour of the university or something like that, but.
Before they applied or even shortly after, but.
Maddie S.
05:53:01 PM
Typically, how long does it take a part time student to complete the program?
You have all the resources available to you through well through Katie and also the clinical psych coordinator.
Katie has referred people to me to talk with individually if they had specific questions.
OK, and then there's one more. How long does it take a part time student to complete the program? It is 8 semesters.
Cathryn Smith
05:53:36 PM
the part time is 8 semesters, or 2 years and 8 months
So that's 2 1/2 years, little over 2 1/2 years.
And the full time option, which is the six semesters, is just two years.
Cathryn Smith
05:53:51 PM
The full time 6 semester is 2 years
Doctor Hatchie, would you say that one program completion rate is more popular than another? Like are there more part time students than full time just given how many credit hours they are they would be taking at the graduate level?
Maddie S.
05:54:12 PM
Thank you!
Yes, I think the majority of our students are take the part time track it is. It's a lot when you're working a full time job and if you have the addition of.
You know, family obligations and things like that.
You know, I think most opt to go the part time route.
Kitty, do you know if they're able to? I think they are able to go from.
Part time, full time or full time to part time, Yes.
Yeah, I so with with coordination.
And and then I sign off on everything. If you want to scheme a change or something like that, most most definitely go the part time. This is a marathon.
I always think of it, you know, it's not a matter of how fast you get through it. It's the success and the ability to absorb all of this new information and then apply it.
In the clinical settings. So I think most of our students realize that it's it's about optimizing the opportunity in Graduate School to get everything that you can while you're a student.
You you have that safety net as a student.
With the ultimate goal of passing that certification and we really focus on that. Everything is designed around that.
Making sure that you have all those components that you need to be successful.
Not just in the program, but for the certification and then ultimately your practice.
Yeah, that that's a really good point, that students can make those adjustments if they are feeling overwhelmed. And sometimes, you know, maybe maybe it's just you don't want to withdraw the entire semester. But hey, gosh, you know, maybe taking these these two particular courses at one time, it's just too overwhelming. I've got some personal family things going on right now. You know, maybe even just dropping out of that one course is still going to help you.
Obtain that goal, but also make sure that you can be successful in the program ultimately.
We have, we do have that flexibility. We support students and and I always tell students life happens, expected life will happen.
And communicate with us, you know that is so important and I think I say that every semester as I have a new cohort of students come through and we we talk and.
You know, just do course reviews or whatever is communicate with faculty. We're here for you.
But we can't support you if we don't know what's going on.
So doesn't mean we need to know every detail of your life, OK? But we we need to be able to support you to be successful.
All right. Well, I don't see any more questions coming in.
We I went over this slide today and I didn't forget about it.
And just I'll, I'll leave this slide up here, but this is the direct contact information for my office. So this will be our main line.
If you happen to call and we don't answer, please do leave a voicemail because I checked that multiple times a day and this is also our main e-mail address that is also checked multiple times a day. So if you're working with an enrollment service advisor and you've got more specific questions or you want to see that part time 8 semester schema or even the tuition breakdown for both programs, definitely reach out to us. We can certainly send that information over to you.
But again, if you do have any questions, you're more than welcome to reach out to us at this contact information here or your direct enrollment service advisor.
So last chance if there's any questions.
Looks that way. Thank you everyone for attending.
Yes, Thank you for taking time out of your evening.
Awesome and keep an eye out.
So we look, we look forward to hearing from you and.
You know, welcome you to the University of Cincinnati.
Sandra B.
05:59:19 PM
Thank you.
Sandra B.
05:59:22 PM
It is ok.
This e-mail will be this presentation will be emailed out and I'm going to work with my marketing team to make sure that there's no sound issues. And I'm so sorry for anyone that had some sound issues. It's inevitable to happen and I do apologize for that. So, so sorry everyone, but again, thank you for joining us this evening.