MSN FNP Online Info Session

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Well, they started in just a second here. I just wanna make sure everybody gets logged in. OK. But if you are here, thank you for coming and logging in and spending a little bit of time with us tonight. My name's Megan Jacob. I'm an enrollment Services advisor for the College of Nursing at the University of Cincinnati. And tonight we're going to be talking about the online MSN FNP program. So we'll definitely be answering questions, giving more information, things you need to know, things you should know. But it's definitely a great way to learn more about the program and ask questions for sure, because I do have the program director on here as well.

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I'll go ahead and get started, so I don't want to wait too long. The good news is we're going to be recording this session too, so anybody that's registered. So if you have a friend or colleague that isn't logged in, that you know is registered or that might want to, you know, watch this and find out more about our program, You can send them a link to the recording because you're going to get one if you're registered 24 hours after. So tomorrow night you'll get an e-mail with a link to this so you can watch it whenever you'd like or reroute it, whatever you'd like to do. But everybody that's registered will get that automatically. But you can also forward it to any colleagues or friends or, you know, coworkers that you think, OK, they they are thinking about.

Looking and this might be something for them to watch as well, but thank you again everyone for logging in. Again, my name is Megan Jacob. I'm an enrollment advisor for the online FNP program here at the University of Cincinnati and the College of Nursing.

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All right, here we go. So like I said, this is on the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing, MSN FNP online information session. So thank you for logging in and attending.

I'm going to start with some information about the College of Nursing. Overall, our vision is through the creative leveraging of technology, the College of Nursing will lead the transformation of healthcare in partnership informed by the people we serve. Our mission developed nurse leaders who are empowered to generate, explore and apply nursing knowledge for evolving healthcare environments. Our core values, our collaboration, accountability, integrity, respect and excellence.

These are some fun vaccine. You may not know about the College of Nursing here at UC. It's actually the first in the nation to ever offer a BSN degree. So our BSN by default is the oldest BSN degree in the US We've been providing graduate level online learning specifically since 2007, so quite a long time, including the FNP for quite a long time as well. While others have kind of been playing catch up in the online kind of atmosphere, we've been doing it a long time. So it's definitely kind of something we're used to. 84% of the college nursing students attend their program online and that potentially goes up and up.

Really, I think every year, just due to the convenience of it and working it into your schedule a little bit easier. All full time faculty are certified in the specialty in which they teach, which is helpful to know as well. And pretty much all of them are working in those fields at the same time as well, at least once or twice, even more times a week depending on the faculty member.

There's something that's really unique about our programs, the online programs especially, but really all the programs in the College of Nursing. There's a lot of different layers of support when you're in the program. Sometimes that may not feel like that. And other online programs or just the vibe of online programs in general sometimes doesn't have that level of will. I have support, I'll be at home, I won't be in the class. So what are my support, you know, my layers that I could have. So these are kind of what you would have if you're in our program. One enrollment services advisor, someone like myself, I have a team myself and four other people actually work with the online.

Graduate Nursing Program specifically and we help you from, hey, I have some questions about the program throughout the entire application process to apply and kind of transition into if you're offered admission, what's your next steps? How do you do that? And answer any questions up to that point? You confirm your admission, then you'll be connected with what's called a Student Success Coordinator. They're going to be your advisor and main contact throughout the entire program. They can assist not only with registering for classes at the appropriate time, they also do check-ins. Even if you're not reaching out to them, which you can, they'll check in and say, hey, how's everything going? How's it going with this?

Course that you're in this semester. How do you need anything? Do you have any questions? You can reach out to them at any point as well. You'll also be connected with what's called a clinical site coordinator. This is going to be your main go to resource regarding clinicals, whether it's questions or help finding sites, things like that. We do encourage you to start putting out feelers for sites when you're first admitted, but the clinical site coordinators are really great because they can make sure you have the proper paperwork. All the requirements are met for whatever site that you're you know you're going to be working with, but also they can give you access to a list of sites in here around your area.

That have taken students in the past, so that's a good resource as well.

You'll also have direct access access to your program director while you're in the program, which is really great. You can contact him directly. I know Doctor Greg for example, I'll, I'll introduce him just a minute here, but he's very much one of the most responsive people that I've worked with in the College of Nursing. And so I will say he's super great about getting back to students if they need anything. If they have questions, faculty in general, you can reach out to them directly typically as well. Sometimes they'll have online like office hours, but a lot of times you can just reach out to them directly, sometimes to them via e-mail, sometimes to their phone number. A lot of them will put on their syllabi.

If they feel comfortable, most of them do. And you'll also have financial aid support staff member that works specifically with the online population. So they know a little bit more about your specific niche, your specific population coming into an online program. So those are just kind of some layers of support that we offer throughout the program, not just in the beginning or at the end, throughout the entirety of the program, you have a lot of points of contact to assist you if you need anything.

Our program pass rates is something we're super, super proud of, especially for the FNP program. You'd be eligible to sit for either of the national certification exams. By the completion of this program, you're eligible to sit for those now most recent from 20/20/2022 is 95%. Now this is the first attempt. This is not overall, this is the first time they took it and sometimes this is quite a lot of people and I've been at the College of Nursing at UC for about 8 years now and I've never seen it, but I think 94 might be the lowest that I've ever seen. That first time pass rate we do a tremendous amount of.

Work within the program to assist and make sure you're prepared and ready for that national certification exam, which is the whole reason you are in the program do become an FNP. So you gotta take this and do well in pass, right in order to become a family nurse practitioner. So that's proof in the pudding sort of. So I like to say, now this is Doctor Greg, I'm going to introduce him now and he can kind of give you more of a background, but he is the program director for the online FNP program.

I don't know if you want to talk more about yourself.

Well, not too much. I've been at UC for 13 years. I've, I think 3 days on the job. They offer me the program director position.

Cool.

So I've been been that the entire time. Just a little bit of background about me. My doctorate is a DMP, so it's a clinical practice doctorate from the University of Kentucky. I am actually dual certified as both a family nurse practitioner and a psychiatric nurse practitioner.

Do dabble in both clinically. I work for City Physicians Group in Northern Kentucky. I work in a family practice office one day a week, but I tend to see mostly community based psych. I also round at an inpatient psychiatric facility one weekend a month and around at 3 personal care homes in Cynthiana, KY for psych reasons once a month.

I guess my clinical expertise is in addiction.

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And I've published probably a dozen papers. I actually write questions for the certification exam.

And I'm on some national councils etcetera. So I I'm very rule my home county, Kentucky, there's not even a Walmart. So we have three that are within a 2025 minute drive. But I like, I like where I live. I live in the county I grew up in. My older son just passed this MCAT. We'll be starting Med school in about a year at the University of Kentucky, but he's in the early assurance program, so he'll.

Actually do it on Nku's campus Northern Kentucky University and then my younger one is going to be a a junior got his first college basketball offer so he's a little excited. But outside of that I do try to stay involved and is Megan said. You know you know that there's a couple very.

Key things about our program is all faculty who teach in the program are currently practicing clinicians. So it's not somebody who's been out of the clinical environment for years. You have people that are well versed on current evidence based practices and taking care of patients. Second Megan kind of hit on this is the multiple layers of support.

Even though we're a big program, you know, I think we're more intimate with students than than most small programs. All students that are in my courses have my actual cell number. So and I do typically respond quite quickly. Often it's within minutes.

Sometimes it may take a little bit longer if I read it and then I got to go find some information before I reply. I do have built into my syllabi. For example, the faculty will respond usually within 48 to 72 hours for non urgent messages, but I do respond very very quickly so.

With that said, uh.

We'll let Megan get back to start the presentation.

I think you hit the nose on the head with your background and kind of reiterating how you are because I can say I've heard from students that he definitely does respond right away and I'm like, I know it, I know it. It's always something I think that's important to point out.

Now the the MSN FNP online program, it's designed to address the needs of nurse practitioners to obtain integrated primary care skills across the lifespan. So from birth to end of life and remember it is primary care. It is not going to be your hospitalist inpatient type of program. It's going to be primary care community based program. The MSN FNP program provides essential knowledge and skills in family primary care nursing and integrated healthcare. The program provides a means for students to be eligible to sit for either the ANC or the ANP certification.

Exams that I mentioned earlier specifically for family Nurse practitioner now all courses are online including the FB seminar. The exception is going to be your clinicals. Those are going to be done in actual clinical site in your area. You won't be coming to Cincinnati to do those unless you already are here. Those will be done in your area. Now the program is designed for nurses with a BSN and at least a year of our own experience prior to applying. I would say if you're nearing the the year of experience, I would say go ahead and apply anyway Potentially we do do a holistic review of everybody that that applies to the program. So Doctor Greg kind of reviews and looks at how.

Two different areas that I'll definitely go over soon, but that experience is definitely one of them.

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Now preceptors, preceptors must be an active and unrestricted NP or MD, no PA So you can't do it under physicians assistant. It's a different scope of practice, it's a different kind of viewpoints. So you don't want to do it under them. Students typically begin their clinicals in the the 4th semester, so the second year of the program, students are encouraged to seek out their own preceptors and facilitate their clinical hours because typically you're going to know your area better than we ever would. And also professional networks tend to be the most successful when it comes to preceptors, we kind of tell students to start putting out those fields for their.

When you're first admitted, even though you don't start them, so the second year to give yourself a bigger window of time. As I mentioned earlier, you do get assigned to clinical site coordinator and they can potentially assist as well if you run into trouble. If you have questions, you don't know what to do with the paperwork, where to turn it in, that kind of thing. They can definitely help you if you're having difficulty locating a precept or just reach out to them and let them know they can give you access to that list of sites which could potentially come in handy as well.

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The program requires 672 clinical hours total. 150 of those are going to be specific to all women, 200 are going to be specific to pediatric, so children college age and below and then 322 are going to be primary care. Now all of those patients have to be across the lifespan obviously. So there's there's different areas for a reason because you have to be able to you know be eligible to sit for the national certification exam and you have to do those different areas or else you wouldn't be eligible. Now there is an option 90 hours of your PC hours in specialty setting.

I don't know if, Doctor, you want to kind of go over, you know, I don't know, a little more like insight.

Well, 4040% of the exam is on Women's Health and Pediatrics.

So you know the program itself.

You know, didactic, it's going to teach you about those populations, but that's why clinically you have to do so many hours and the different areas.

And you know, the main thing is this is a primary care degree. It's it's not a specialty degree. You know, sometimes you have students apply, prospective students apply and they're telling me how they want to, you know, working nothing but peace. They're working nothing but Women's Health and and you know, you have to demonstrate every five years you've worked with these populations or you have to reset for the boards. So this is a primary care across the lifespan degree. This isn't for critical care. This isn't for acute care. You know, we don't permit.

Great.

For example, clinicals in the emergency department unless it's a separate fast track component which is typically like a a basically a side clinic off of the Ed. So you'll need to be in in your typical primary care places, you know your community based doctor's offices, outpatient clinics, those kinds of things, so.

But you'll have to see all, all you know. You got to be able to want to take care of kids through adults, through geriatrics, so.

Yes, if you don't have that passion for children, you know you definitely don't want to treat kids. I would recommend looking into the Adult Primary Care program because you only focus on ages 13 and up, but it is also still primary care. So similar sort of atmosphere, but.

You don't have the pediatric component. If you want to do the whole lifespan, obviously FMP is going to be what you want to go into.

Now here's more information about Preceptors, your enrollment services advisor like myself and my team people that you ask for information about the program, we can give you access to this as well. Obviously this info session is being recorded, so you can go back and pause it and look at this if you want to, but your Esas can help you and send you a copy. This is helpful because it tells you acceptable types of clinical sites and acceptable types of preceptors, so who you can do what under. And then that middle section goes over the clinical focus of each clinical in the program. And then on the left side, the first column there it tells you how many clinical hours in each semester are required.

Now for clinical hours, that's the total for the entire semester. You can stay on a specific schedule where you're doing so many hours, the same amount of hours per week every week or you can knock out a bunch of hours by some folks will take PTL and do it and get a bunch of them out and then kind of finish up. The only the trick here is the real key is that you can't take, you can't carry over any hours to the following semester. So if it's 168, you have to do that 168 by the end of that particular semester. So you can't carry any over to the following semester. So that's kind of the main thing you have to remember.

And this is when it gets a little trickier, especially with scheduling when you get to the clinical portion because there is only so much time in a week. That's why some folks will take you know like the lesson, their hours at this point or sometimes they will take that PTO as I mentioned to kind of get them finished and make sure they they are learning and actually taking in the information, you know to be able to have a good clinical experience but also get the hours in. But I think this document is really helpful because it's going to tell you OK, where can I do what, what am I looking for before I even start the program.

And this one is the schema. This is helpful too because it's going to tell you semester 123456. This is the entirety of the program, what classes you're taking, and in each semester. Now the program is 6 semesters total, which is 2 years. It is considered. Even though this is our full time schema, it's still considered part time because you'll notice you're taking ten credit hours or less every semester, so it's still considered a part time program. So that's helpful to know. All the classes are asynchronous. That's also helpful to know as well because it means we don't have live lectures, we don't have set times or weekly set times that you have to log in each week.

So that kind of helps really with scheduling. We do have students from all across the country and we all know nurses have different schedules. So asynchronous courses seems to be the best way to do it. As I mentioned earlier, we've been doing it since like 2007, 2008. So it's definitely been working for the students. It's a feedback that we get when we survey graduates and current students and we have been for years and this definitely works best for nurses overall from what we've heard from graduates and current students.

But this kind of gives you an overall, we can also send you a copy of this as well from your enrollment advisor, but I believe there's a lot of this stuff on our website too.

And this is definitely very much a building program, which means you need what you just took recent and fresh in your brain to be successful in the next course or the next semesters basically. It's kind of like if you're if there's too much time in between the courses, you may not be super successful. So that's why it is built this way. And like I said earlier, our first time pass rates are super excellent. So it's definitely been working. So it's definitely been a tested method and it is very, very much working for our students.

We did get some We do get some testimonials and feedback from students pretty often actually when we ask or sometimes we don't even ask and they give us feedback, which is really great when we do survey them. Now this ones from Brandy, she said. My degree has enabled me to practice independently and to help patients in my rural hometown where providers are limited. This program is a good fit for a motivated and disciplined RN who is ready for a challenge, loves to learn and wants to give more to the community.

Now these are the prerequisites, prerequisites for the program. Now before you can apply, you must have completed an undergrad stats course with a C or better. This has to be done before you can apply. If you haven't taken one, you might want to talk with your ESA and they can let you know of all of the requirements specifically, but that's definitely one of them. Students must have completed their BSN at a regionally and nursing accredited institution. Typically we're going to look for a 3.0 or higher. If it's a little below, it's not an automatic denial since we do holistic admission, but the higher the better for that portion you know for scoring that portion of the application.

Students must also have one year of RN experience as well.

Now you see R and a BSN upcoming grads. If you're finishing R and a BSN program, ask your enrollment services advisor about your next steps for admission, because sometimes there's a little bit of overlap there and we can help you kind of navigate that a little bit. So just talk to your enrollment advisor about what do I do next. If you're finishing, we'll let you know when you can start and how that all works. Now the holistic admission that I mentioned, so the first step is to apply through nursing cast. Nursing cast is a centralized application system. It's a third party app system that we use similar to like a common app. So other schools use it as well.

Essentially, you'll log in, you'll make an account to any of the University of Cincinnati as one of your schools or programs that you're interested in, and then you should see all the apps that we have opened at that time, the enrollment services advisor like myself and my team, we can help walk you through the entire process or you can kind of do it on your own and just check in and say, did I do this right? You can do that too, but we're happy to help. So you'll complete that application in Nursing Cast. You're going to send all official transcripts directly to Nursing Cast, and this is transcripts from anywhere that you have ever attended, So anywhere you've ever gotten credit, send those transcripts right to Nursing Cast.

Nothing should be sent to. You see, it all goes through nursing cast first, so it has to be sent to them and they basically go through everything and verify, make sure nothing's missing, then everything's there. So that's why it has to go to them, not to UC. If you've earned any international transcripts or any international credits, I should say in degrees outside the US, it needs to be evaluated by the World Education Services or West. You'll get that evaluation itself sent right to nursing cases as well. Now you have to have your SSN conferred from a regionally and nursing accredited institution. Like I said, we look for a 3.0 or higher if possible. You also.

They have a current and unrestricted RN license, so unencumbered, no issues. Current and active. Now, three professional, academic or professional or academic letters of reference. One from a current supervisor if possible. It's not always possible, so that's OK. If you can't, it's not like an automatic, like, well, she didn't do it or he didn't do it. It's more three professional recommendations. People that can speak to you being ready for that FNP role and responsibilities. They can all be professional. You don't have to have an academic one, and unless you do have a really good one, you can use that if you'd like, but you're going to enter in their name and their e-mail.

They'll get an e-mail right away asking them to complete a recommendation for you. They'll do it themselves. You will not upload their letter. That's all you have to do on your end for that portion is entering in their name and their e-mail. You'll also upload a copy of your professional resume or CD. This is going to show that work experience that we're looking for. You want to make sure that you include any kind of like, let's say, committees that you served on recently or community volunteer work that you've done recently. All of those things you can highlight in your resume or CV and then the next thing is going to be your personal goal statement. This is similar to like a personal essay.

It's really your chance to say why FNP maybe. What's LED you to this point? Why do you want to treat families in that community setting? What would make you a great FNP? Those are things you can potentially highlight there. Now complete Transcript and Course for entry section is also required. So this is full coursework entry. You can opt to pay Nursing Cast to enter in all your coursework for you. They call it Pte. The cost is an additional cost and it goes to Nursing Gas. It's just a service that they offer where it means once they get all of your transcripts they will type in everything as it appears on the transcript and it calculates your overall.

GPA, which is why full course for country is required. It also calculates your science GPA. You can opt to type in all of your coursework yourself if you'd like. You just want to get a copy of your potentially unofficial transcripts. Use those as a guide to type it in just as it appears on those transcripts. The grades, the class number, the course name, description, all that stuff is going to be entered in just as it appears on the transcript. But as I mentioned, you can opt to pay nursing cash to do it for you, or you can do a half and half situation. If you have a lot of transcripts, you can opt to type in the shorter ones yourself.

And pay for them to do the long ones. The cost varies depending on how many transcripts you're gonna have them type in. It's usually from 1:00 to 3:00, it's this amount. From 4:00 to 6:00 it's the amount, that kind of thing. It'll pop up. It's called PT. If you do want to check into that within nursing class, you can.

Now this is the application process that I kind of mentioned before. What you'll do is you'll go through a nursing cast. Typically you're gonna pay an $80.00 fee when you submit the application. We do have some waivers available. Ask your enrollment services advisor when you're ready to submit. Before you submit, ask them if they have any waiver codes available. Sometimes we do have some nursing has been giving us a little more of those, which is really great, but it'll take off that $80.00 fee. It's an individualized codes such as ask us, make sure you ask before you submit. It cannot be applied retroactively, so make sure you do it before. But typically going to pay $80.00 and you submit you.

And pay and submit or submit your application even if you're waiting for a transcripts to get to nursing cast or if you're waiting for references to be complete. So recommendations to be complete. Those have a grace period even after the application closes. Full course for entries required for the application as I mentioned. And you must be in what's called verified status in nursing casts in order to move to the next step to be sent for review now. Right now they are waiving the UC application fee, which is usually the next step. Usually it's about $65 for the MSN at least, but that ones being waived. So there's nothing you actually have to do, you have to pay that right now.

They're waving it for the spring semester. So that fee is definitely not there right now anyway, they may bring it back, hopefully not. But right now it's waived. And then once you're verified, we typically send you for review that following Friday. We send applications for review every Friday after they become verified. So we send them right to Doctor Greg. So once you've done that and it's become verified, like I said, there's no UCC fee right now. So you don't have to do that portion. You should receive an admissions decision which will come anywhere from like I would say like 2 to 3 weeks. Just depends, sometimes a little quicker depending on how many Doctor Greg is reviewing in that same.

Exact time and how many we have to upload into the system essentially, But basically when it's sent, it usually takes that around that amount of time and you'll get an e-mail as soon as it's ready. Your enrollment advisor also be kind of looking out for that decision too and let you know as soon as they see it on their end, just in case you miss it. But you'll get an automated e-mail just letting you know an update has been made to your application. A decision is ready. So times vary, but that's usually around around the time frame.

Now this is a tuition and fees breakdown. The total tuition you'll see is in the top left hand corner there. If you're in state, it's $45,554. If you're out of state, it's 46,319. You'll notice it's not super different as far as like the difference between in state and out of state. We don't kind of gauge a little bit just because you don't live in Ohio, so that's helpful to know. That does include all tuition, all fees, everything except books, just because that can vary each semester and some folks will borrow and things like that.

So the MSN FNP program also so you know also is eligible for federal financial aid for those who qualify. And then the cost per credit hour to break it down even more so in state is 892 and out of state is 97 credit hour. If you are eligible for military benefits, you can contact your regional VA representative to determine what your benefits will cover and if they cover the whole program, they can definitely help. They're super nice and helpful for our on our end as well. So we do really like them. The program B is $56.30 and it's assessed each credit hour, so that's included in that.

I mentioned payment plans are also available. If you do have any out of pocket or you're paying out of pocket, you can definitely do that. There's a few options there. And then you'll also be paying a Bloodborne pathogen fee, which is $31.00. It's each academic year, so it's just like twice throughout the program typically. Ask your moment services advisor also about the University of Business scholarship program, we have a lot of university business partners. It's where employers, if they're a partner, it's it gives their employees anywhere from 5 to 15% essentially in the form of a scholarship off, which is really great. We do have quite a few.

Megan, this is.

Partners now like as you mentioned, he works at Saint Elizabeth, that's one of our newer partners, but we do have quite a few all across the country. So if you if your employer is not already a partner, the good news is it doesn't cost them anything to become a partner. All they do is ask them to distribute the information to the employees, which is really easy.

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With you speaking?

What?

Sorry.

And we can, we can pull up a couple different slides when I talk about things so.

Try it again.

I don't know why it's still doing that. I'm sorry guys, never happened before.

How much?

And so when I asked, someone asked about my dual certification. My masters was as a family nurse practitioner at Northern Kentucky University, and I did a postmasters psych NP through them also. But UC has a postmaster psych in piece. So after you get your F&P, you could theoretically do the psych NP program. It's a little bit shorter since it's a postmasters, but UC does offer that.

That better guys, can you see that?

Sorry about that. That's never happened before. We've done this plenty of times.

OK.

Maybe pull it back to the slide where it shows the semester schema?

Yeah, let's do that.

We'll pull you back here.

So folks, this this this scheme is set up for a couple reasons. One is to meet prerequisites to learn certain material before you can master other material. The other is this is a very well balanced in terms of trying to.

Balance out the difficulty of the courses. So it's very important students try to stay on schema. On this schema, some will opt to go a little bit slower.

Which can be done. We don't necessarily encourage that because the further out you took a course, the less you're going to remember some of the content. All of our semesters basically, or most of them are actually part time because they're less than 10 credits.

And we do go year round for for two years.

Hmm.

In order to be successful in this program, I do encourage that students be able to study for four to six hours per credit hour enrolled per week. For example, that first semester you're at 7 credits, so 7 * 4 is 28. Six times seven is 42, so you would need to be able to study 28 to 42 hours a week for for some success. Some may need to go more. When you hit that 4th semester though, that's when clinical starts, so on top of the hours of study.

Hmm.

You have so many hours of clinical per week. So the first semester of clinicals, which is semester 4, it's about 12 hours per week and then it's about 16 a week after that and then about 20 hours a week on the final semester. You can't front load hours. Some students are wanting to say, hey, can I do 300 hours in the first semester? That's not possible because you're still learning content.

So you know, this is a very doable schema.

And ultimately you'll do 672 hours.

What's this one?

And then there's different rules related to clinicals where you could do them, who you could do them with, things like that. But we can give get you that information and typed format. So has to be DDO or nurse practitioners or advanced practice nurses. Can't be PA's, can't be any relatives.

And you have to do so many hours with an NPC.

But most do we have. These Dos are NPC's.

Hmm.

And then now when you are applying to the program, understand, she said. It's holistic admission, so there's six different areas we look at. Just make sure that you know the things you can't change or your GPA and your science grades.

Hmm.

But uh, make sure you're selecting appropriate people to give you references. Make sure your CV highlights not just your education and your work, but any extracurricular activities or volunteer activities, community based activities that you do, And make sure your goal statement. And please don't take this the wrong way.

No.

We don't want to hear about why you wanted to become a nurse that you said on the bedside help somebody's hand, a family member's hand while they were were dying. We don't want to know why you want to be a nurse. We want to know why you want to be a nurse practitioner, specifically a family nurse practitioner. So tell us that, why you want to be an FNP. Demonstrate you know what the role is and how you plan to use the degree and your goal statement.

Umm.

And I'm trying to think if I forgot anything on top of that.

So.

I feel like sometimes people say like do they want to do other programs and their goal statement. So if you're applying to multiple, just double check that too maybe?

Umm.

Yeah.

And our board pass rates are 95%, UH no less than 95% in recent years, as much as 100% in some some batches and we have hundreds of students taking it. So we do a very good job of preparing, preparing our students not just for boards but that transition to professional practice.

Now I'm double checking to make sure everything's there.

This is the information about the application process I was talking about as well. You can also get this information from an ESA too if they you know, they can send it to you via e-mail to you, but this will be recorded to them. This is the tuition and fees that I was speaking about, the total costs in the top left there for in state and out of state. And it's all tuition and all fees. Everything except books, the University of Business scholarships, that thing I was talking about in the bottom right hand corner. If your employer is not already a partner, they can definitely be one and it doesn't cost them anything, which is great. They just ask that they distribute information about our online programs to their employees and that could be not just.

Healthcare and nursing programs, it could be like MBA's and things like that. So and like I said, depending on how many employees they have, it could be like 15%, which is really a nice helpful thing. So it's definitely a growing program that we're really excited about.

These are some state restrictions. Now as a result of the state boards of nursing and the DOE higher education regulation changes. The University of Cincinnati and College of Nursing cannot accept applications for distance learning programs. So online programs from students residing in the following states Arizona, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and then students who live in Hamilton, Butler, Warren, Claremont counties in Ohio and then Boone, Kenton, and Campbell counties in Kentucky. What you'll do is when you apply, you can still apply and do the program completely online.

You would just pick Cincinnati metro application. So we know that you're in the area and it has to do with clinical restrictions and things like that just for different county restrictions to make sure you choose the metro area. If you have already started the application for distance learning, you're like shoot, I'm local, just let your enrollment services advisor know they can figure it out and help you kind of navigate that and how to switch it over. They can do that for you.

Yeah, the dual certification.

I don't know if you guys want to do a Q&A now if you, I'm sure you have plenty of questions for Doctor Gregor for myself, but I'll, I'll check them in the chat. I know that there was one already that he kind of talked about a little bit, but feel free to chat. Any questions for Doctor Greg?

We're happy to help. It could be really anything you want to know. Could be about requirements or his certification like we asked before.

And there, yeah.

By hitting the dual certification is super interesting and I think I hear about it more often that I talk to people because I also work with the Postmaster psych program and there are quite a few FPS that say now I want to do this because I'm already treating patients in mental health or whatnot.

Right.

Now for F&P, there's two different certification bodies. They ANCC or a ANP. I'm actually certified through both, whereas the site MP that I am only A and C offers that. So but I hold 3 certifications, basically family with two different groups and then psych with one one group.

And actually, you could take both. You could literally take both certification exams, Pass one, not pass the other, and you're certified in P.

So some people actually opt to take both.

Yeah. And also sometimes certain areas, it's more common to take one versus the other in that area. So that's the reason why you're eligible to sit for either whichever one you want that's more common or prevalent in your area.

I'm going to go over some dates while you guys think about questions if you do have any others.

OK.

Now, this is kind of the deadlines for the upcoming semester, for the Spring 2024 semester, that's with classes beginning in January, that's the next available start. The priority deadline is September 1st. Priority deadline just means that if you apply by that deadline, you're insured to be considered for the particular semester that you actually want to be submitted for it, not be deferred. Essentially, we started creating these priority deadlines because some of our programs have a little bit smaller cohort. It's not necessarily the FNP and they fill up pretty quickly like prior to any final deadline. So that's kind of why we started really helping applicants know when should I get this in.

And the sooner obviously you apply, the sooner going to get that admissions decision as well. The CV or resume or personal statement and RN license, all of those items need to be in before you know, boy, by the deadline so you can submit. Even if those are pending, you can submit. You can't submit unless those you know are in the names and contact information for at least three recommenders. So at least three references you can put in up to six people, but three is the minimum, and at least three of them have to be totally complete for it to go verified. But you can submit even if they haven't done their recommendation yet.

They have that grace period even after the final deadline and then complete coursework entry if you're using official artificial transcripts to to do it yourself. Or you can opt to pay for Pte, that professional transcript entry service that I mentioned through Nursing Cast. You can submit your nursing Cast application and you can pick the fee is normally $80.00. But ask an ESA about a waiver because we do have quite a few of those left, I think. So definitely ask us because we're happy to send you one of those and what you do is you copy and paste a little like individualized code and it takes off that $80.00 app fee, which is really nice.

And then the final kind of verification deadline. As I mentioned, there's a grace period for transcripts to get to nursing casts and for recommendations to be totally complete. That grace period is you have until about October 31st for the everything to be complete and for your application to become what they call verified. So that's like professional transcript entry. If you paid for them to do it, they won't get started on the transcript entry until they receive all of your transcripts. They also do not request transcripts for students for applicants. So you still have to send all your transcripts to nursing guests, even if you pay for the Pte.

That just means they're gonna type in everything for you. It does not mean there were quest transcripts for you.

So hopefully that kind of clears that up a little bit. They do mention that within the application, but just in case, you can always ask questions and this is our main office of recruitment line. If you have any questions like I don't remember my ESA's name or I don't remember, usually you'll remember our names. We'll send you quite a few things and kind of text and e-mail you and call you as well. But if you need, if you don't have any S already, you can reach out to this number or this e-mail. We're happy to help answer questions that way. If you're like, shoot, I should have asked this, that's totally fine.

Um, I'm going to go.

Make sure there's nothing else that we needed to.

Highlight and cover.

But like I said, we are recording it and this this information session, it should be all these slides should be in there. I'm going to go.

And run through them really quick so that it's of course on.

I won't talk about it if you can every single one again, but this is just so that they're on your recording for sure.

This is some fun facts about you see college nursing, this is layers of support that I was talking about with different people that are throughout the whole entire program to assist you and kind of make sure that you feel supported even as an online student. And this is our first time pass rate, our most recent one anyway from 2022. Obviously we don't have 23 just yet because we're not done yet, but this is our first time pass, right, not the overall.

Doctor Greg is the program director that you've been hearing Lovely speaking all night. And there's some more information about the FNP program overall. And then the preceptor information, like I said, ask your ESA or Enrollment Services Advisor about the preceptor information. It's on our website as well on the College of Nursing website. But sometimes it's helpful to have this copy just, you know, via e-mail to yourself. It tells you acceptable types of sites and preceptors and more info specifically about the FNP clinicals And this is that scheme that we went over as well to make sure everybody has all the info there.

Any other questions before we let you guys go tonight?

Alright. Well, thank you everyone for logging in. We really do appreciate you taking the time and thanks for letting us know. I haven't had that happen to me before. So hopefully we were able to get the information out to you. But if you do have questions, like I said, feel free to reach out to your enrollment advisor. We're happy to help. At any point you can e-mail us or call us. It's myself, my name is Megan Jacob. Or it could be CC, it could be Katie, it could be Joni or it could be Christy. We're all here to help answer questions at any point, but feel free to reach out if you have any questions for Doctor Greg, we're happy to pass those along as well. He usually is really great about answering questions too. But thank you again for attending.

Great. Quick question.

And we hope to see you all apply for the spring 2024 semester. The applications open now in nursing CAS. So thank you everybody and have a great night. Thank you Doctor Gregg. Hope we do have a question. Just kidding. We have one please. You said asynchronous as just pre recorded lectures. So asynchronous means there's no set times they have to log in each week. If they do have any lectures, they are going to be recorded and uploaded to Canvas, which is the online platform that the students use in the program. So it's up to the faculty how they want to do it. I feel like a lot of them just do like short.

Kind of shorter lectures now.

Right.

There's there's a Sabbath, deadlines. Uh, so uh, But there's not a a definitive time. You have to set it a computer and watch a particular lecture, so.

Yeah, like Tuesdays at four or something. Like it's not like.

Right.

Usually there's like a window of time. For example, if someone's giving a test, the faculty person may have the test open for for two days.

I feel like it's like 48 to 72.

Yeah, so.

Something like that, They'll tell you ahead of time, like this is happening, like this is the window that you have and you take it anytime and there.

One other Are there a lot of papers in this program with how extensive the studying will be for the program? It's a good question.

I mean papers are going to be occasional throughout the program and some of the courses, I mean healthcare policy would make make sense.

Right.

But you'll work on a capstone.

Project the last year in a group. Uh, that's a digital poster presentation, not necessarily a paper, but I would say there's some many papers you'll write with that. But there's there's not a thesis or anything like that.

I really think it's up to like the faculty kind of decide how they want to run their course. In particular, I think some of them are going to be more of your study exam, study exam, like the three courses I feel like are more like you're you have to take them for the certification, so you have to make sure you know it, whereas others are going to have like discussion boards and projects and you know, group things potentially.

Which is a good mix, I think.

Good questions guys.

Wait.

Anybody else have any questions? I don't want to leave anybody out.

Think that's all I got here.

Well, if you do have them, like I said, reach out to any of the essays enrollment advisors. I'm sure we'll be emailing you and calling you and texting you and answering your calls as well. We're happy to help that way. Or like I said, if you have a question for Doctor Greg, just let us know, we'll forward it over to him, no problem. But we do thank you all for logging in. It was really great to see all these people logging in and asking him asking For more information about the FNP program in particular. Like I said the two the 2024 Spring application is open now in nursing guest. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. I know it can be a lot the application process.

We're here for us to help, but thank you guys for logging in. Thank you Doctor Greg, I appreciate your time, but I hope you guys all have a great evening.