Herzing PMHNP

studentnurse2018, ADN, BSN · Nov 13, 2020

@gamecockgurl How are the advanced pathophysiology and advanced pharmacology courses? Did you take one course at a time? I am taking these in the Spring along with 2 other courses.

KJ Otto, ADN · Nov 16, 2020

Hey all! I’ve been following this thread as after researching many online PMHNP programs I have decided on Herzing and hope to start with the Nov. 1, 2021 cohort next year after completing my online RN to BSN at GCU in September 2021. I’m curious how everyone has been doing with attempting to secure clinical placement, and if anyone is in the state of California. I checked the California state board of nursing website and it looks like Herzing is accepted as an out of state program for NP clinical placement - as of this month at least, I hear that was recent. I am relocating to California from Washington in May and definitely will not have the kind of connections I would if I had lived and worked there previously. How do you all go about finding preceptors? Thanks!

Denise Durham, ASN, MSN · Nov 19, 2020

For those of you who started the PMHNP program either in September or November, would you be willing to share some of your thoughts/experience thus far? I start in January and I am very excited! Thanks everyone☺️

gamecockgurl, MSN, RN · Nov 19, 2020

On 11/13/2020 at 10:03 AM, studentnurse2018 said:

@gamecockgurl How are the advanced pathophysiology and advanced pharmacology courses? Did you take one course at a time? I am taking these in the Spring along with 2 other courses.

@studentnurse2018 Hey! I took one course at a time this fall. So I had advanced patho the first 8 weeks of the semester and now currently taking advanced pharm for the second half of the 8 weeks of the semester. Advanced patho was not too bad. For that class, we had a discussion due every Wednesday, two responses to other ppl's discussion due every Sunday, and a quiz due every Sunday (you have 15 mins to answer 10 questions). We also had two papers as well. As for advanced pharm, this class requires more work and studying. We had two discussions due every week (one on Wednesday and another on Friday), two responses for each discussion (so 4 responses total each week), we have a quiz every week (which is super hard...each question is a paragraph long and you only have 90 seconds per question, so you have 30 mins to answer 20 questions), a shadow health lab assignment which is an online activity (it actually makes learning concepts a lot easier), and have a total of 4 papers. Both teachers have been very helpful and amazing. You will love the program! What other classes are you taking in Spring?

gamecockgurl, MSN, RN · Nov 20, 2020

On 11/16/2020 at 5:46 PM, KJ Otto said:

Hey all! I’ve been following this thread as after researching many online PMHNP programs I have decided on Herzing and hope to start with the Nov. 1, 2021 cohort next year after completing my online RN to BSN at GCU in September 2021. I’m curious how everyone has been doing with attempting to secure clinical placement, and if anyone is in the state of California. I checked the California state board of nursing website and it looks like Herzing is accepted as an out of state program for NP clinical placement - as of this month at least, I hear that was recent. I am relocating to California from Washington in May and definitely will not have the kind of connections I would if I had lived and worked there previously. How do you all go about finding preceptors? Thanks!

@KJ Otto Hey! You made a great decision! Herzing has been great so far. As far as preceptors, it all depends on your own connections. I would recommend that you start networking right now to see if you can get in touch with any psychiatrists/psych NP who can precept you in the future and lock them down. You will also have to do a clinical with a family med/internal med/family NP for the advanced physical assessment class, so have that secured too just for a semester. The school did not help me find anyone. We have to find someone ourselves just like all other schools out there, unfortunately.

Denise Durham, ASN, MSN · Nov 20, 2020

@studentnurse2018. I appreciated hearing about advanced pharmacology and pathophysiology and the class structure/process. I start in January so thanks again.

gamecockgurl, MSN, RN · Nov 20, 2020

2 hours ago, Denise Durham said:

For those of you who started the PMHNP program either in September or November, would you be willing to share some of your thoughts/experience thus far? I start in January and I am very excited! Thanks everyone☺️

@Denise Durham Hi Denise! So far, it's been a good experience! I really do not have any major complaints. The only thing I don't like about the classes so far is that they don't really "teach" you. They expect you to read the textbook and have to teach yourself. But I guess this is how all online schools are going so far. They do not provide you with any comprehensive notes, just a few PowerPoint slides just touching a couple of key concepts. Luckily, I still have my notes from nursing school from almost 10 years ago, and they have been tremendously helpful, so I do not have to read the book in detail.

studentnurse2018, ADN, BSN · Nov 20, 2020

@gamecockgurl

I am taking Health Policy & Management and Organizational Systems and Behaviors also in the Spring. For the weekly quiz, how do you study for them if there is no teaching or adequate powerpoints?

Denise Durham, ASN, MSN · Nov 20, 2020

@gamecockgurl, MSN, RN, thanks for the information. Sounds like it was when I did my Master’s. Except that I demonstrated applied knowledge through my papers. No tests. Does that sound about right? They at least provide the resources to obtain the information. I’ll post here how things go for me. Maybe it will help others like this has helped me. Thanks so much!

gamecockgurl, MSN, RN · Nov 20, 2020

Just now, Denise Durham said:

@gamecockgurl, MSN, RN, thanks for the information. Sounds like it was when I did my Master’s. Except that I demonstrated applied knowledge through my papers. No tests. Does that sound about right? They at least provide the resources to obtain the information. I’ll post here how things go for me. Maybe it will help others like this has helped me. Thanks so much!

@Denise Durham You're very welcome! It is kind of like that as far as papers and discussion posts go, however, we do have quizzes every week which are timed. The only resource they provide you is the 3-6 slides of PowerPoint they provide you (which is not enough information) and you also have your textbook.

gamecockgurl, MSN, RN · Nov 20, 2020

7 minutes ago, studentnurse2018 said:

@gamecockgurl

I am taking Health Policy & Management and Organizational Systems and Behaviors also in the Spring. For the weekly quiz, how do you study for them if there is no teaching or adequate powerpoints?

@studentnurse2018, luckily the teacher for the advance patho class derived her quiz questions from her PowerPoint slides, so those were easy (but I still read the chapter summaries and skimmed through the textbook to make sure I am learning). However, the advanced patho quizzes are no joke. You literally have to reach each chapter (which I do) and I still made an 80% (and those are one of the highest scores). I see a lot of ppl failing their quizzes. But I guess the points we get from the papers, discussion and shadow health labs helps even out the score so I'm sure they are all passing.

Denise Durham, ASN, MSN · Nov 20, 2020

@studentnurse2018 Wow! Great information! Thank you so much! Well I’m excited and I love to read and learn so as long as it’s manageable I pray I will be good. Now it does make me nervous to take a timed test but I’m gonna have to get over that , right! ? thank you