St Joseph's College of Maine FNP program students

[LJames13]

I wanted to start this thread for all of the new (and current) students at Saint Joseph's College of Maine FNP program.

Any info, news, updates or questions/concerns could be asked here for all the new and current students.

Any advice that the current students can give us new students would be greatly appreciated :)

For example...

1. How many books are required for NU 501?

2. Has setting up clinicals been difficult?

3. Have the current students had any trouble communicating with your advisors? Do they get back to you promptly?

4. Overall, how has the experience been? Are you glad you are in this program?

Thanks so much!

LJames13

[LPN2RN2BSN2MSN]

Wild,

I can't tell you how glad I am to have come across this forum. That program has gotten a lot of negative feed back. Just to think, I was so dead set on this program being the one I went for, had a long conversation with the track coordinator, KW back in March. But since then I have heard nothing good. Unless I find out different, Brandmand's BSN to DNP Psych program is now my top choice. The only down side is that 65k seems like a lot.

[canchaser, BSN, RN]

Hello fellow students... Who is planning on starting clinicals this spring?? Myself and a coworker are planning on starting by March but she having financial issues was thinking she might have to postpone till April. Was wanting to see if there might be a cohort ready to go this spring with us.. Thanks.

[Leahbrasher]

Taking my classes slow to start. Almost done with nursing informatics. Not too hard just time consuming. I forgot what class I'm supposed to take next. I signed up for nursing ethics but my counselor said it was booked and put me in for nurs politics. I like this school so far. Nervous about finding preceptors next year.

[Leahbrasher]

I used examples from work on my leadership skills...like facilitating a code, changing some rules that weren't nurse friendly, pioneering new standards of care that are still used at my facility.....and yes I fudged a little to make myself sound awesome but that's what they're looking for.

[Leahbrasher]

I'm pregnant and due in march. Any suggestions on what class might be the easiest? Nurs research maybe? I still want to take classes while on maternity leave

[shannonFNP, BSN, MSN, RN]

According to my advisor, the courses need to be taken in a certain order with a few exceptions. Of the core classes, I would suggest Informatics. It was the easiest for me, but I grew up with computers. My first was leadership and management and that course wasn't so bad either.

[unobuckrn]

Hi All!

I have applied to St Joseph's using their online application process. How long did it take before someone got back to you? I'm assuming this isn't the entire process- but just the preliminaries? I also went a head and sent my transcripts from my other schools.

Just trying to see what the timeline might be. I'm super excited and am keeping fingers and toes crossed that I get in! St Joseph's sounds like exactly what I want and need. The flexibility and the ability to advance in my classes faster than normal is AWESOME!!!

Thanks in advance for any information!

[Leahbrasher]

According to my advisor, the courses need to be taken in a certain order with a few exceptions. Of the core classes, I would suggest Informatics. It was the easiest for me, but I grew up with computers. My first was leadership and management and that course wasn't so bad either.

I'm taking informatics and its pretty easy. I will try the leadership class

[Leahbrasher]

Just bought my books for nurs politics on half.com for about 13 bucks total and half of that was shipping. Also I will be selling my books from nursing informatics soon if anyone wants them let me know

[missorlando]

It looks like most of you are finishing our core classes in 4-6 weeks? Just curious if you're working full-time. I'll be starting Nursing Informatics at the end of the month and am wanting to gauge my timing based on working full-time.

I'd be more than ecstatic to start clinicals this summer, but I'm afraid that's be pushing it!???

[shannonFNP, BSN, MSN, RN]

I have been working full time and am enrolled in my 3rd and 4th courses. I plan to drop to part-time in two months, working 24h/week. I mostly just want to be PRN so I can pick my own schedule. Doing the program is a lot easier when I have several days in a row off, but lately I've been getting one-day-on, on-day-off type schedules which makes it extremely frustrating in school because I feel like I'm always working and doing school and having to stop writing a paper so I can go to bed for work the next day.

24h/week is ideal for me, but everyone has their own limitations. I do not have kids so I just need to work enough to pay the bills with a little padding in case of emergency.

[canchaser, BSN, RN]

I work a Monday thru Friday job. And ever Saturday I work a 12 hr shift so I'm working 52 hours a week. I complete a class every 8 weeks. I have a co worker working 36 hours at one job then a 8 hour shift on the weekends so that's 44 hrs. She does a class every 4 weeks.