2010 DePaul Masters Entry Cohort

The pharm book and the theory book not everyone needs to have, you just need to have someone you can borrow them from on occasion. The rest you should probably have your own copy of.

Hey I have some questions. I found out that there are 5 books for Nursing 301. and 2 books for Nursing 322 and 3 books for Nursing 332. Can you tell me that do we need to buy all of these books? I am going to buy from Amazon.

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For pharm, you can do without the calculations book unless Margaret changed how she teaches the class (which she might've). Otherwise, see my previous post.

Thank you. I will order all books of nursing 332 and 301. I will order Pharmc after starting class. Do you have idea about physical check up and vaccination? I ordered from certifiedbackground check.com for 87 dollar. Can you tell me what should I have to do next? thanks

The physical, vaccinations, and titers you'll have to schedule with your Primary Care Provider. Beyond that, take care of stuff on the list they handed out at orientation - it all needs to get done.

I agree with Squire... you don't need the pharm book unless something has changed... but where you will pay an arm and a leg is PRINTING... she gives you almost 500 pages of notes - and you need these - this is what the tests are based off of... some of the folks in our group sent the files to an online place and got it bound for about $30... I need to think about what that site was called.....

I'm just curious why you are doing a masters entry cohort? What are the benefits when you only need to be prepared at the associate's/bachelor's level? Once you have completed the bachelor's do you take the nclex or do you have to wait until you complete your master's degree? Sorry for the questions but I am just puzzled why someone would do this. It just seems like an added expense to go for the MSN. What are the goals of the master - is it geared towards NP, CRNA, or CNS? I'm not against additional education but just curious what the benefit is cause I really don't think you make a whole lot more money if you are at the RN level. Hope this makes sense. BTW, I looked on the DePaul website and it wasn't clear.

DePaul's program is geared towards people who a)don't want just another bachelors when they already have one, b) don't want to take a mess of weird prereqs ("Human development across the lifespan"? ***?), and c)are planning on going on to either get a research PhD or to some sort of APN certification. Included in our coursework is approximately the first year's worth of courses required for any flavor of APN, and we all have to do a masters thesis which could be further developed into a PhD should we choose. We're all fully aware that we won't make any more at the beginning - it's all about where we'll want to go after we get established in nursing.

Also, a BSN isn't included at all. We take the NCLEX-RN after we graduate from the MS in General Nursing program.

Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense. For some reason I was thinking this was for someone with no college and it took you all the way through from freshman to masters. I guess then that the classes are very accelerated. I'm currently doing accelerated classes and they are no fun.

I make more.... I work at a union facility and I make more per hour due to the masters... its not much - but it adds up. Almost $4 more an hour for regular day shift........