USA Grads

[graceofone]

Are there any University of South Alabama grads on this board? I am first semester of the FNP track and already worried about clinical sites! I know on their site they list their clinical affliations but did anyone arrange their own with sites not previously approved? Or did anyone come across problems with finding sites? Any insights on the program would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Blessedx3]

Hi! I am second semester at USA--live in Mississippi--they will meet with you for one week I have been told in the fall to set up clinicals. I believe as long as the paperwork/preceptor is approved, they will use new preceptors. Let me know what you find out...I am excited about getting to the clinical setting!

[JALEXSHOE]

One must submit a CV and a signed two page contract, unless it is a mini observation which is a one page contract for submission to your assigned clinical instructor for review and then it is sent to the college for acceptance.

Usually you discuss this with your assigned preceptor that the school provides for you, which is different than your preceptors that you will contract with locally to provide your clinical experiences with.

If your program is similar to the track I have almost completed, then you will do mini-observations in the Fall of Ortho, Derm, Radiology, Opthamology, etc. for fall semester. The second semester is women's health and peds. The third is internal medicine, and the last is family practice.

Be aware that ANCC has released that they will be requiring in the near future an unspecified amount of your training/preceptorship must be provided by an ARNP. It is generaly felt that where one certification board makes practice recommendations, the other is likely to follow. So please, keep this in mind, when locating preceptors.

Have a nice day.