For current acute care NP students...

I think I replied to one of your other posts. UMass's acute care NP program is two years long. It is now broken up into two semesters a year. The program does not start clinicals until the fall of the second year. Based on your nursing background they will try to place you in clinical sites that you are interested in. Usually if you are interested in the icu your first semester will be in a med/surg based unit and your second year will be in an icu. However some students are placed straight into ICUs. If you do not have experience in an icu then you probably won't be placed in the icu for your clinicals. Other sites are based on the students interest such as emergency (however you can only see patients over 12 years old).Sites for clinicals are all over the state, Connecticut and RI. Students give preferences of where they wish to have their clinicals.