When can I apply to Frontier???

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Specializes in L&D.

Hi, I'm a nursing student working on my BSN. I'm expected to graduate in May 2012. I've been looking at the Frontier school for some time now and I'm pretty sure I'm going to be applying there. I know you have to have the years experience, but since I pretty much know I want to go to grad school I wanted to know how early can you apply? I will have a job right out of school because I currently receive a service cancellable loan from my local hospital so I have to go work for them when I get done. Once I started working would I be able to go ahead and apply to the school even though I'm not completely done with my one year experience? I've heard that you can wait months before you get accepted and Frontier bound is a few months after that and classes don't start until a month or so after that! So I guess my question is can I apply while I'm still in my first year of experience as a RN and by the time I get through will all the applications and hopefully before bound I would have my years experience? Or can I not apply until I have a years experience first?:confused: I really want to begin applying asap after I get a job because I will be living with my parents and they said they would support me while I went to grad school (LIFESAVER)!!:yeah:

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Specializes in NICU, Post-partum.

You can apply to Frontier when you see the class posted on their website that corresponds when you will have the required work experience.

The only thing that they are not flexible on, is that you cannot apply until you have your BSN, even if you are working as a nurse already.

Which is a requirement that I don't understand and wish they would change...most colleges will allow you to apply for graduate school with final acceptance pending receipt of final transcripts, which if you have a high GPA, should not change much.

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Specializes in L&D.

YES that's such a relief!!!:w00t: I'm really excited and nervous about meeting my goals of becoming a Nurse Midwife. Have you heard of anyone that has said that the program was more difficult to them if they only had one year of experience? That's one of my concerns with going back to school so early that I want have that good foundation of experience to rely on.

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Specializes in NICU, Post-partum.

A good number of their midwives have never worked in labor and delivery at all..your focus as a practitioner is different than that of a nurse.

So, only one year of experience is not going to hurt you, but if you can get into L&D, it would be best.

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