Post MSN FNP Online Information Session

Hi, good evening, everyone. My name is Joni Ritzki, and I'll be running the information session tonight for our Postmasters Family Nurse Practitioner Certificate program. I'm going to give it just a few minutes for everyone to have time to log in. Just a minute or two and then we'll get started. So no need to worry about cameras or microphones or anything. You'll just be able to chat so you can type in the box. You should see either a chat or a questions box.

So if you're having any issues, definitely send me a message in there. I am going to turn off my camera for just a minute, but we will get started here very shortly.

All right. So since it's been a minute and no one additional has logged in, I'm going to go ahead and get started. We are recording this session and it will go out to everyone who registered. So if you need to pop off at any time, don't worry, you'll get this recording. Again. My name is Joni Ritzky. I work here at the University of Cincinnati, and I'm an enrollment services advisor for our online graduate nursing programs. So today we will be featuring our postmaster certificate in the Family Nurse Practitioner specialty.

So I always like to start these by talking about our vision, mission and our core values, In particular highlighting our core values of collaboration, accountability, integrity, respect and excellence. So we really strive to kind of make these the center of everything that we do from the moment you connect with myself or someone on my team all the way through to graduation. So we hope that you have already seen.

These values in your interactions with us.

And hope to continue to do so throughout your time in the program if you apply and get an offer.

I'd like to share just a few fun facts about the College of Nursing. So UC College of Nursing is the first in the nation to offer ABSN degree, which is very cool. So we've got a long history in nursing specifically. We've also been offering our graduate level programming online since 2007. So very well established in the online sphere something that, you know, we've worked out the kinks. It's not something new to us. We've got a pretty good system in place. Our faculty are used to teaching online.

Something that we are really used to doing and have a well organized machine.

In fact, 84% of our College of Nursing students attend their program online. So even our local students are attending their classes and then online format. So kind of cool that someone who lives 5 minutes from where I am all the way to someone in California is having a similar experience and all of our full time faculty are certified in the specialty in which they teach.

I think this is really important because you will be taught by a family nurse practitioner and someone who is currently practicing. So our faculty are not just academics, They still practice at least one day a week. A lot of them practice more than that, so they are able to provide current examples in their teaching. They know what it's like to be an FMP in the current atmosphere. Obviously the medical field is always changing, so nice to have people who are kind of plugged into that.

At UC, we do have multiple layers of support, so I will do quick bullet points on these. So your enrollment services advisor says someone like myself, there's a team of five of us and we are here from the moment you request information through the application process, if you get an offer confirming your spot, we're here to guide you through that. And then once you kind of confirm your spot and are looking to enroll, we would pass you along to your student success coordinator.

This is basically a fancy way of saying advisor. So they are your advisor during the program. They do multiple check insurance every semester. They're kind of your first point of contact throughout the program. We also have a clinical site coordinator who is available to kind of help facilitate contracts with clinical sites. They also keep a list of preceptors that have been used in each state before and we'll touch on that a bit more later in this presentation, but they are there to help and provide that support with clinicals.

The program directors are here and the rest of our faculty and we also have a dedicated financial aid support staff specifically for our online students. So you have a specific team that helps you that's kind of separate from the rest of the university. So you get that kind of more specialized support being an online student.

I also really like to highlight that we had in 2022 a 100% overall pass rate on the ANCC exam.

So super proud of that. I feel like the pass rates speak to the design of our program and how well we are preparing students for taking that exam and practicing as an FNP. So really like to highlight that.

Usually this is the point where I would be introducing our Program Director, Doctor Sherry Donnaworth. Unfortunately she had a last minute change in her schedule so was unable to attend tonight. So you're stuck with just me. But I do have a nice video here that I am going to try and play for you. Hopefully the sound works so that you can be introduced to Doctor Donna Worth even though she's not here.

I am still in practice as a nurse practitioner, as are all of our faculty and nurse practitioner program. That practice also informs my teaching. We feel an ethical responsibility.

Put practitioners out there who are confident, and when I teach a course I have to think of that person might be taking care of a family member someday. I do everything I can to help my students be successful, and I think that's why our program is so popular and that our students do so well.

All right, so hopefully that plague.

All right, so you got a little taste of Doctor Donnerworth.

I am sorry. She's very sorry that she couldn't attend. We obviously get these things on schedules very early, but last minute changes. You are all nurses, you know how that can happen. So I'll go through and do get the presentation. I've done this a lot and I have a lot of experience with this program, so I should be able to answer a lot of your questions as well.

Just won't be coming from the point of the program director. So our postmasters family nurse Practitioner Certificate program is designed to prepare students to care for patients of all ages so you can work in a wide variety of settings. So most importantly noting that it is primary or ambulatory care settings. So outpatient facilities, clinics, Pediatrics, family, gosh, family practice, if I could talk tonight.

So wide variety of areas that you could work.

I always like to point out that this program again is specifically designed for primary or ambulatory care. So it is not designed for someone who wants to do that critical care. So if that is what you're looking for, the adult acute care program would be a better fit that would prepare you for working in that setting as opposed to you know, the primary outpatient that we are preparing our FMPS for.

Once you complete the program, you are able to sit for either the ANCC or the AANP certification exam. You can sit for either one. It's very much up to you.

I usually tell students just to look for what employers in their area are looking for.

The program is designed for nurses and advanced practice nurses who have an MSN or ADNP and at least one year of clinical experience within the last five years. So it is really important to have that clinical experience.

It's sort of a walk before you run situation. I know obviously students have a ton of experience and they get a lot of experience in their undergrad in particular, but it's good to be out there kind of practicing and getting that experience. This is obviously speaking more towards those who are doing like an accelerated or a generalist MSN.

You don't have to specifically have a BSN to apply for the program, but an MSN or a DNP, and it's highly customizable. So what Doctor Donnerworth does with this program when she's reviewing an application, she'll literally look at your transcript for your MSN or DNP and see which classes you have completed in your program and which are missing that you need in order to be eligible to sit for that FMP certification exam. So.

Super customized to your background and we also take professional experience into consideration when it comes to the clinical portion. So every student has their own customized schema and the program director. So Doctor Donna Worth would create your customized schema after reviewing your application. So we won't do any pre review of transcripts, but we do have a lot of sample schemas available. So we have a really cool page on our website that has.

Sample schemas for Crnas and adults NPS and also the generalist or accelerated MSN.

So we do have those on our website, but we've got a lot of other ones kind of tailored to backgrounds of students that we've had enrolled before. So you can always reach out to your enrollment services advisor to get a sample schema to get an idea of what classes you might get credit for.

And most importantly, all of our classes are offered in an online format. So the program is truly 100% online. There are no campus visits required. So you can do all of your coursework in an online format, and they're all asynchronous as well. So you don't have live lectures or anything like that. It's definitely designed for the working student. So usually the work for the week is posted on like a Sunday or Monday, and then you usually have until the following Sunday to get that work completed.

So really keeping a balance of, you know, giving you that week so you can fit the coursework into your schedule where it works best for you, but also having those weekly deadlines to keep you on track.

All right. Why should you attend this program? So as an FMP, you will be able to care for patients across the entire lifespan. So Pediatrics through death, you'll be able to treat those patients across the entire lifespan and you are really able to, you know, focus on health promotion and disease prevention again that primary care, outpatient care.

And really learn how to develop treatment plans for acute and chronic diseases.

So that's where again the outpatient setting, the primary care is really coming into play. And again the program prepares you to sit for the national certification exams, so an CC or AANP so that you can become a licensed FNP and work in those diverse settings. So if you are already in NP, let's say you're a Women's Health NP, you can add the FNP specialty and broaden your scope, become dual certified or if you are, you know an MSN nursing education.

You can add this FMP certification so you can be practicing as an APRN.

And again, it's really a flexible plan of study. So we do have the sample schemas or sample curriculum that we can provide to give you an idea again of what classes you may get credit for.

But that's just an example, and even your customized schema can be changed. So let's say you know, most of the time we'll default to a part-time curriculum, so two classes a semester. But you need to slow down because your work schedule is crazy.

Or summer is busy, so you want to slow down a little bit and take just one class. We can make that change so the classes are offered every semester. So that allows for that flexibility. So really just keeping in mind, you know, keeping you on track, right. So any prerequisites, you'll have to do those before moving on in the program. So we make sure that your student success coordinator will ensure you're meeting those requirements. And our graduate college just requires a program to be completed within five years of starting it, which is usually plenty of time.

So again, we do have a lot of flexibility. If you need to make changes, you really just need to reach out to us and we are happy to work with you on a case by case basis.

So the prerequisites to apply for the program. You must have a completed statistics class with a grade of SEER. Better, you need to have a complete BSN and MSN at a regionally and nursing accredited institution with a 3.0 or higher. Again, if you have ADNP and not an MSN, that's totally fine, you're still eligible. If you have an accelerated or generalist MSN and you do not have ABSN, you're still eligible to apply for the program.

So really it's the MSN or DMP that's the kind of most important piece there and that an accredited institution and you must have at least one year of that RN experience within the last five years. So we do have a little bit of flexibility there.

Our holistic admission process means that every document that you provide will truly play a role in the decision. So Doctor Donna Worth is reviewing not only your transcripts really closely, but she is also reading your personal statement, your resume, your references. All of those items truly do play a role in our decision. We are looking at, you know, the full, well-rounded students. It's not just your GPA or just your work experience. We are looking at all of those things.

So we use a third party system called nursing casts for our applications, which some of you may have heard of or if you've talked to myself or one of my teammates, you may be a little familiar with that system.

Essentially what you do is you'll create a username and password in nursing cast and work through the application on their site.

So we'll need official transcripts from every college or university where you've earned credit. So nursing related or not, if it was, you know, a couple of classes from a Community College that transferred into your MSN or DMP.

Or your BSN will need all of those official transcripts. And by we I mean nursing casts. So all of your documents need to kind of live in their system. So if your schools use like parchment or national student Clearinghouse, they should be able to send those transcripts electronically to nursing casts. And if you need any help with that, again reach out to us. We can walk you through that and if you have any degrees that were completed outside of the US.

We do require a evaluation by the World Education Service or a W evaluation. What they will do is they will essentially take all of your classes and the credit hours and GPA and convert that to the US equivalent and then determine if your degree that was completed outside of the US is considered equivalent to you know, a BSN or MSN in the US.

We'll need a current unrestricted RN license and you can just do a screenshot from your State Board of Nursing with your name and license number. That's totally fine. You do not have to have an Ohio RN license, just your active RN license in your state is fine.

We'll need your professional resume and a personal goal statement. And the goal statement is fairly straightforward. You know, we want to see that you understand the role of an FMP, why you want to do the program, why you want to become an FMP, anything you've done to prepare for the program, your goals for after you graduate, and all of that within about 500, gosh, 500 to 750 words. So it's not usually more than two pages.

And all of those prompts are on the nursing cast site, they're on our website and in a lot of emails that you get from myself and my team as well.

The last thing that we'll need is at least three references, so we usually look for one to come from a current supervisor if possible. I know a lot of times for the postmaster certificate students, a lot of times you are that person who is a supervisor, so use your best judgment. They can all be professional. We don't require any academic references, so the most important thing is if they are professional or academic and not personal.

So while we want to make sure you know, we're having great people in our program.

Having a reference from your best friend or your pastor or someone along those lines, is it necessarily the kind of reference that we're looking for, so professional or academic? And there's a section called transcript entry. So this section can sound a little confusing, you know, if you're sending your transcripts there, what does this transcript entry mean? And all that means is that you will enter each class that you completed into the nursing cast system.

So if it was the fall 2000 semester, you took English 101, it was introductory English, it was 3 credits, and you got an A. That's basically what you're entering in that section. So I know it can sound a little tedious. It is just data entry, so it's not hard, it just takes some time. I have entered a four year degree myself and it took me about 30 or 40 minutes, so not terrible. Obviously you all have multiple degrees.

So it will take you longer than that, but it's not too bad. There's also an option to pay nursing cast to do that section for you. So it's called Professional Transcript Entry Service or Pte. You'll see on their website and it starts out at I think $75.00 for the 1st 3 transcripts and then increases from there. So very much up to each individual student and what you want to do. If you want to enter those classes yourself or pay nursing cast to do it for you, that really falls down to your preference and what you want to do.

So the application process, which I already touched on a little bit, but the first part is completing the application through nursing cast. So there's an $80.00 application fee that you will pay when you're ready to submit. You are able to work on your application without submitting, so you can, you know, save the information and go back to it as many times as you need you will.

Be able to submit as well before all of your official transcripts have been received by nursing cast and before all of your recommendations are complete. But you will have to do that transcript or coursework entry in order to submit.

Definitely want to highlight that right now we have some coupon codes available that will waive that $80.00 nursing CAS application fee for you. So it's an individualized code, so we can't give you one until you're ready to submit. Essentially, each section of the application will have a green check mark. When you get to that point, take a picture or screenshot and e-mail or text it to your enrollment services advisor and then we can get you that individualized code.

And if you have any questions about that, again, reach out to your enrollment services advisor. We can definitely help you.

Once you've submitted your application, all of your documents are there. Nursing Cats will do a verification of your application details and then you would move to the next step which is completing the UC Graduate School application, which really at this point is just creating your login so making sure you can log into that account. And usually you have to pay a $20 UC application fee, but we are waiving that.

So you don't have to worry about paying that $20 fee.

So once you've been able to log into your UC grad school account, you would be officially ready for review. And we send those applications to Doctor Donnellworth every Friday. And decisions are usually made within about one to three weeks. And it can depend on how many applications we're sending that week. You know it can be shorter if there's only two applications versus 10. Doctor Donorworth has to do a lot of reading and investigating with those transcripts and creating schemas.

So it can take some time if there's a lot of, gosh, a lot of applications being sent, but your enrollment services advisor will keep you up to date. You'll also get an e-mail from the Graduate School when a decision has been made, so you'll always be kept in the loop.

I know I have been talking for a really long time, so if you have questions about this application process, feel free to type them in the chat and I will answer those. There's also AQ and A at the end. So if you think of any questions, just go ahead and type them in and then I will be able to answer those at the end.

But I just wanted to pause and make a note that if you have questions to go ahead and ask those.

All right, tuition and fees. So we do have an in state and out of state tuition for our online programs, but the difference isn't huge. So you can see the cost per credit hour for our in state students is $892.00 and out of state is 907. We do have one other fee. There's a blood borne pathogen fee of $31.00 that's assessed each academic year, so every 3rd semester.

Super super important for the Postmaster certificate program. It is not eligible for federal financial aid. So that means you cannot complete a FAFSA to apply for a federal loan to help pay for the program. So if that was your plan for you know going back to school and getting the certificate will need to pivot. That's not something that you'll be able to do.

Students will very often use the payment plan with the Bursar's office, where they'll take the tuition fees for one semester and split it into 3 equal monthly payments.

Sometimes they'll apply for an alternative private loan, so like a credit based loan to pay for the program or sometimes they'll have tuition reimbursement through their employer or any combination of those. So it's really I think a lot of students are doing kind of a combination. It's not usually you know just one type of aid that they're using.

Definitely want you to be aware of this though. We do have more information about alternative private loans on our website.

So that's a resource that you can look into. If you don't know if your HR has tuition benefits, I would reach out to your HR contact and ask that, because it's always good to know.

See, you know, how much is available, what the process is like, and we do also have a university to business scholarship program where we have worked with different organizations across the entire country to set up a partnership where we are able to award students who work at these different employers.

A discount on the instructional fee for the program. So we've got a lot of partners already. There's a whole list on our website and it's anywhere from, you know, small organizations of, you know, 10 people all the way up to like Bon Secours. Mercy Health is one of our partners.

For those who are more local, Kettering Health and Saint Elizabeth. So we do have those kind of larger networks. But again, I've had students that work in, you know, a small clinic and they get.

Some tuition benefit and or we are able to set up the university to business scholarship program, so definitely worthwhile to ask.

So this is usually where Doctor Donnerworth will step in. So while we can't say at this point you know what your customized schema would look like, I do like to show some possible courses for our students who are already nurse practitioners. So differential diagnosis is a big one if you haven't had that in your previous program. Obviously if you are a Women's Health MP or a certified Nurse midwife, you would not be taking the.

Clinical management of, well, women.

If you are a Pete's MP, you wouldn't take Clinical Management of Children. So that's where it's very customized and you'll see that those two courses do have an asterisk beside them. So most of our courses, all of the other courses on this.

Are full semester classes, so the semesters are about 16 weeks in length, and generally the classes that you enroll in for a particular semester, they run concurrently throughout the entire 16 weeks except for these two classes. So the clinical management classes are half sessions.

If you have to take management of, well, women, that's first seven weeks and clinical management of children is in the second. So those are the only ones that don't run for the full semester.

Sometimes you'll have to take clinical management one or two, again depending on your background. The internships are your clinical hours, so that's where you will get that experience.

In kind of the very generic breakdown is that there are usually 4 internships.

For a total of 672 clinical hours. But you'll see on here we only list 3 and that's because if you are a current nurse practitioner, we will give you credit for usually one internship. So 168 hours based on your work as let's say a Women's Health NP. So we do definitely look at that and you'll get credit. It can vary, you know if you get credit for one or two internships, but Doctor Donnerworth would make that determination.

I also like to point out on here, So each internship, like I said, is 168 clinical hours total and that would break down to about 12 hours per week. But you don't have to do 12 hours per week. So if you do 8 hours one week, 20 hours the next, that's totally fine. However, you can get those hundred gosh 168 clinical hours completed in the term dates of that semester.

And you don't always do that phone number, which I know can be a little confusing. There are times where the total clinical hours you need to complete as part of your program does not work out to a multiple of this 168. So just as an example, I know for our Women's Health MPs, they'll have to do 200 hours in Pediatrics. Sometimes they'll do all 200 hours in one internship. Or if you're a PDZ P and you're doing 150 hours in Women's Health.

That doesn't obviously match up to that 168, so that's just giving us.

Kind of.

Amount of hours that we need to kind of keep space for for each student. So if it doesn't work out to equal one of these numbers and you're confused, just reach out. We can definitely talk through it again. But essentially that's just kind of again holding space for each of those required clinical hours.

And as the note has on here too, you'll do several internships, usually with experiences in Pediatrics, Women's Health and then primary care. So depending on your background, we'll figure out what kind of clinical hours you need to complete.

So this is a more lengthy list for students who are not currently nurse practitioners. So if you are like one of those direct entry MSNS, this is something that you may have to do. One thing I definitely like to point out on here, we get a lot of questions about the three PS. So advanced health assessment, advanced pharmacology and then advanced pathophysics. There are a lot of times that these classes are included in some programs.

But we have to ensure, and by we, I mean Doctor Donowirth has to ensure that these classes are, across the lifespan, designed for the Advanced Practice Nurse and that they'll meet the ANCC and AAMP requirements.

So if you are in like a nursing education, MSN and you may have taken these classes, but they're designed for an educator, they wouldn't meet the requirement because they're not designed for an advanced practice nurse, but rather for an educator.

I know we have a lot of Crnas that are doing this program and you will very likely have to take advanced pharmacology if you're not a current prescriber in the way that an NP is, you need to take advance farm. Both of those certifying bodies require advanced farm to be taken within five years of the date that you're sitting for the exam. So that's very important with that class in particular.

And then you'll see some of the same classes, right. So differential diagnosis, clinical management. And here you'll see the breakdown of the internships or the clinical hours if you are not a nurse practitioner. So you're a nurse educator or you're a generalist MSN, you have your MSN informatics. You will have to do all 672 clinical hours. So that's something to be prepared for. We do have another slide coming up here very soon with more information on that.

But before I do that.

I do want to make an important note that if Doctor Donnellworth creates your customized schema and let's say she has Advanced Health Assessment on there, and you're like, no, I know I took that class and there were NPS in my class. I think I should get credit for that. She's always happy to do an additional review. So if you can provide a syllabus for the class, you can send that to your Enrollment Services advisor. We can get that to Doctor Donna Worth, and she's more than happy to make that change.

We always want this program to be as streamlined as possible.

And be, you know, as straightforward as possible. So students are only taking the classes that they need. As I'm sure you can imagine, there are a lot of varieties in the titles of courses, and some websites are not always easy to find certain information. So that's why if you have the syllabus for the class, we can send that to Doctor Donna Worth for review. If you don't have your syllabi on hand, which is not a problem, I understand if you don't.

You should be able to reach out to your school that you completed your MSN or your DMP with. Usually either the registrars or the College of Nursing should have those syllabi on hand and they can provide those for you.

And particularly for those three PS, if you're not already a nurse practitioner, I think it's important to have those available again, just in case more information is needed from Doctor Donna Worth. And if she needs additional information, definitely hold on to them, because the ANCC or AANP may ask for that syllabus as well when you go to sit for the exam. So good to hold on to those for a little while.

So this is a document that has. I know the writing is a little small, but your enrollment services advisor can send this to you and we have a few other documents as well with some more information about clinicals. I know this is a huge part of the program, it's usually a pretty big concern and students want to know how it works. So you'll see on here the clinical focus for each semester. The internship one is designed for those who are not already practising as NPS.

So really starting with the very basics of, you know, comprehensive histories and physicals.

Starting out fairly broad and then you'll get more specific. After that, I like to point out that you are able to use other practitioners in addition to family and PS as a preceptor. So you can use certified Nurse Midwives, Women's Health NPS, Adult NPS, even MD's or D OS. So definitely cast a wide net when you're putting out those feelers for preceptors. We do encourage students to try and secure their own preceptors and clinical locations, so this list can come in handy with the clinical focus.

Most important thing with the clinical site, as I mentioned earlier on is that this is a primary care program.

So your clinical sites need to be primary care. You are able to do clinical hours in like an ER, but there needs to be a fast track. So it's not working in kind of the general ER, but rather in this area where you would be very likely to be treating patients who maybe don't actually need to be at the hospital, but maybe needed to see a primary care.

Practitioner. So you can do those hours in the fast track, but not in the ER.

You are able to do specialty offices, so outpatient care, primary care most important factor for those clinical sites. The clinical site coordinator that I mentioned very early on, I think it was slide three maybe does keep a list of preceptors that have been used in each state before. So if you are struggling to find a preceptor, let us know as soon as you feel that way, so that we can connect you with that clinical site coordinator and they can share that list with you. It is definitely.

A collaborative experience. So while we encourage you to secure preceptors, you're definitely not on your own.

If you find someone and you want to make sure they meet their requirements or you want to check on a clinical site, you can send the information to us and we can double check with the clinical site coordinator. Sometimes clinical hours start pretty quickly depending on your background. So it's good to be thinking of this already, putting those feelers out, laying that groundwork so that people know that you need a preceptor so it's not a surprise and you are ready to have that information available when you get to that point.

State restrictions. We unfortunately cannot accept applications from students who reside in any of these states, so Arizona, Oregon, Louisiana, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Tennessee and New York. So it comes down to the DOE higher education regulation and state boards of nursing. So while enrolled in the program, you cannot do anything in these states, so you can't take a travel contract, let's say in that state.

No clinical hours, nothing can be done in these states.

I know I've had students who live in New York and are like, I've got an active RN license in New Jersey. I'll do everything in New Jersey, my clinical hours. I'll sit for the certification exam in New Jersey and then I'll transfer everything to New York. It's fine. It's not a big deal. No, you can't be living in New York and taking classes for our program. So kind of full stop, stay out of these states while you're enrolled in the program. The restrictions only apply while you're enrolled and before you pass the certification exam.

So once you complete the program, pass that ANCC or AANP certification exam. You can practice in any US state, so again, restrictions only during the program.

So this is where I will officially open it up for questions. Thank you for bearing with me. I feel like I've just been lecturing for 40 minutes.

So please ask your questions. You can again type it into the chat box.

And I see a few in the questions here. So when is the advisor assigned? So for like the enrollment services advisor like myself, you would get one of those when you request information.

So if you've filled out a form on our website or you've called and left a voicemail or you e-mail us which I'll have our general e-mail here at the end, you would automatically be assigned to myself or someone on my team. We have a specific student success coordinator, so advisor during the program. So you would get them, you would be connected with them. After kind of you apply, if you get an offer and confirm your spot, that's when you would be.

Forwarded along to your Student Success Coordinator.

And my team works very closely with them. So we're all in the Cincinnati area. So you know, Doctor Donna Worth is here usually.

I'm here all of the student success coordinators, faculty members. So we really work closely together with students. So even though the Student Success Coordinator is officially with the student, once you are enrolling.

You know, I still ask them questions. If you know, the students ask me something that I'm not sure about, I can talk to Doctor Donowworth as well. So we have that kind of.

Cross functional support for you?

So preceptors aren't chosen for clinicals necessarily. Like we are not going to place you in your clinicals. We will encourage you like I said to try and find some on your own. Put out feelers in, you know your personal and professional networks to see what you can find. We do have a really nice networking.

Kind of guide that we can send. I know it can be scary, especially if you're not a practicing MP currently, but you never know who people in your kind of group may know so.

Even if you don't specifically know an FMP, there might be someone that you know who is going to school for their FMP or they've recently completed and they have preceptors that they've used. So definitely good to start with those easy people, right? The people you work with or your friends or people you still talk to from nursing school and just see kind of what you can find by putting out those feelers. And again, if you are struggling at all, reach out to us so that we can connect you with the clinical site coordinator.

You are able to do clinical hours in different states.

So Florida, New Mexico and North Carolina are all approved. So those restricted states that I talked about before, let me here they are. So you just need to avoid these states when you're on a travel contract. So you couldn't do anything in any of these seven, but any of the other 43 states are fine. You just need to have an active unrestricted RN license specifically in that state.

So if you, I feel like a lot of times if you're a CRNA or an NP, your license will be kind of for both like the advanced level and as an RN, but just make sure you have both. I know it can vary state to state. So short answer is yes, you can do clinical hours in multiple states. You just need to have an active RN license and it needs to be an approved state for us.

So the amount of time you have to find a clinical site once you start the program can vary a little bit because it depends on your background and how many of those didactic classes you may need before starting clinicals.

If I am remembering correctly, for CRNA specifically, the sample schema I think has you starting Clinicals in maybe semester 3. I could be wrong, don't quote me on that. We can definitely talk and get the sample schema out.

If you haven't already with your enrollment advisor, definitely reach out to them.

So it can vary, but I always think it's good to again put those feelers out early.

It can be a little more challenging if you are traveling to make sure you have clinical sites in whatever state you may be in. It might be good to Once you are, you know, let's say you apply, you get an offer, you get your customized schema.

And you know which semester you'll start your clinicals. Let's say you're applying for summer, you start clinicals in spring, so January. You start the program in May, You'll begin clinicals in January of 20-5. Maybe if you can make sure that at least for that semester you're doing one contract in one state just so that you're not moving between states while trying to do clinical hours because that I can imagine that would be a little more difficult.

Yeah, basically. You know once you get your customized schema, we can work through it.

And we can also, you know, make sure that we're working with you on an individual basis to make sure the schema will work for you. So let's say you need to delay your clinical hours for some reason. We can do that. If you need to take a semester off, that's not a problem. We have students do that fairly often. We have a lot of students that are having babies, so they'll take a semester off or they need to take care of their parents for a semester or something. So it is easy again to.

Really customize the schema to what works best for you.

I hope that helps.

Any other questions?

Again, I know it can be difficult to kind of, yeah, go ahead.

Difficult to imagine what a schema might look like or what the curriculum may look like, so definitely reach out to your enrollment services advisor. We can help you with that. We just need to see what your background is and we can get that sample schema to you.

Most of the didactic portion is usually completed before clinical start, but there are times where you'll take didactic and clinicals at the same time, so.

Just pulling this up so that you can see there are a lot of times where students will do like Clinical management one. So that didactic class with internship one and clinical management 2 with internship 2.

So there are a lot of times where you're taking like a didactic class and also doing an internship, but if you wanted to space that out, you can so always an option to extend the length of the program. I know it's always kind of balancing, right? Like how long is it going to take for me to do this program?

And can I make it work for me so I can do, you know, my clinicals and my didactics?

Yeah, I think very likely you'll have a didactic with an internship. And then I feel like a lot of times The last semester of the program is just internships for this program, but varies depending on background.

And I definitely I want to see here if I can click into something else and hopefully not lose you guys.

I want to find the link for our website.

That will have the sample schema so that you can take a look at some of them and I just want to share it with you so that you guys have it available. Again, you can reach out to your enrollment services advisor and we can get you a sample schema or sample curriculum.

All right, so on here.

So on this page of our website, we have sample curriculum for a pediatric Npacrna, an adult acute NP certified nurse midwife or Women's Health NP and an accelerated direct entry. So that has a lot of good options on it. If yours doesn't fall into one of those, again, we probably have a sample schema for you, but just reach out.

I should probably have talked about application deadlines. I guess I needed to get to this slide. So what's next is a good question. Keep asking your questions too, we still have some time.

So we have three start dates each year. We have spring, summer and fall. So January, May and August. And right now the next available start is our summer semester that begins May 6th. So that application is open now and the deadline is March 15th at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.

That March 15th deadline is for your documents, so resume personal statement, are unlicensed that transcript entry, the individual course entry or paying for that professional transcript entry service and then entering the name and contact details for your references and the name and dates of colleges that you attended. That's in a nutshell what you have to do to be able to hit that submit button again able to submit before nursing cast has received your official transcripts and recommendations.

We will allow a grace period until April 1st for those to be received by nursing cast. So there is a little bit of a buffer there.

Definitely want to point out though, we have already been making decisions on summer applications, so decisions are made on a rolling basis. So if you know our program would be a good fit and you're ready to apply, you get all your documents in, you submit, and everything's ready to go by next week, let's say, then we would go ahead and get your application to Doctor Donna Worth so that she could both make a decision and create your customized schema.

So obviously good to keep these deadlines in mind. I know everyone needs deadlines, I need deadlines, but decisions are made on a rolling basis as well. And for those coupon codes that I mentioned that will waive the $80.00 application fee, we do have a limited number of those. So the earlier you are able to submit an application, the more likely it is that you'll be able to get one of those coupon codes.

And something where, again, you're able to submit before those transcripts and recommendations have been received, so don't worry about waiting on those.

Each section has a green check mark. Let your enrollment services advisor know so that we can get you that individualized coupon code. We do also have our fall application open right now as well. So if that August start would be better for you, just let us know so we can keep you updated on those deadlines.

So I'm going to put this up here just in case anyone needs it. So this is our phone number, our general phone number, and then our inbox. So if you have questions and you haven't been connected with a specific Enrollment Services Advisor yet, you can call this phone number or e-mail this account.

Big thing to note with the phone number, we have hybrid schedules now so which is great. Love that for US1. Downside is that it makes it impossible for us to actually pick up that line when we're working from home the 556-7400. So leave a message. Very very important to leave a voicemail. If you call leave your name, your number, we will get back to you. That inbox is checked multiple times a day.

So we're pretty fast at getting back in touch. If you already have a specific enrollment advisor, you should hopefully have their e-mail and their phone number. So obviously you can reach out to us most of our phone numbers you can also text us at that same number. So I know a lot of times texting is easier, so feel free to do that.

Obviously phone calls are great too, so do whatever works best for you.

Also like to put in the plug of for text messages.

Also emails and phone calls, but I feel like for texts I need to give a specific shout out that we will only respond to those during our normal working hours.

So we are usually not answering, let's say text messages at 6:50 PM Eastern Time on a Wednesday.

So if you text us when you have a question, by all means do that. I know I'm someone that if I don't ask the question while it's in my head, I'm gonna forget it. So go ahead and send us a text with that question, but know if it's at like right now.

You'll hear back from us the following business day, so just have a little bit of patience there. Emails, same thing, like we'll respond during our normal hours, but those are a little faster I think.

Yeah, definitely. Good to make a note of those.

Any other questions that anyone can think of? Thank you so much for bearing with me again.

I feel like I have just been lecturing for an hour.

So hopefully still got some good information and got to meet Doctor Donovan through that video. So I'm always glad that we have that option. So you can still get a feel for her. She's great and if you apply for the program and get in and you have her as an instructor, I'm sure you will love her. She is really great to work with.

Any other questions? I know we have a little bit more time here, so I don't want to kind of end things if people have more questions.

And hopefully everyone saw. I know there's a few different boxes I think so hopefully in the chat you were able to see the link that I sent for the sample schemas on our website.

If you're not able to find that, again, just reach out to us and we can send you the specific sample schema for your background. And we literally just need to know. You know, my MSN was from the University of Cincinnati and adult NP and just send that to your Enrollment Services advisor asking for a sample schema and we can get that to you.

Also able then to have an estimate of the total tuition fees once we know your background. So obviously cost again is a big thing with the program, so good to have an estimate of what to expect there.

Alright, any other questions guys? Wanna make sure I answered all the ones that are in there already.

You will be getting this recording, so we'll e-mail that out. It usually takes about 24 to 48 hours.

For the recording to become available. So once we have that, we will e-mail that out. So again, if you hopped on a few minutes later something, don't worry, you'll still be able to see the full information session, so you'll get all the information that we covered.

Alright, well, I think that might be it. So thank you so much for attending tonight and again for bearing with me and just having me tonight on my own. I hope that you enjoyed this session and you found it helpful. That's always our hope with these that it provides good information for you and any other questions you may think of. Please don't hesitate to reach out to us, e-mail us, call us, text us. We are always happy to help. I know this program.

It's hard to give specific details in an information session, so always good to follow up so that you can get some additional detail based on your background and any other questions you may have. We are here to help, so stay warm everyone. I know it's freezing in Ohio and a lot of other places right now, so I hope you have a nice warm night and hopefully you will be reaching out to us soon and you'll be hearing from us too.

Thanks guys.