Johns Hopkins Entry into Nursing (MSN) Spring 2021

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Hi Everyone,

I wanted to start a thread for the Johns Hopkins entry into nursing MSN program for January 2021 applicants. I just started my application this week, aiming to get it in well before the July 1st deadline. Anyone else?? ?

Also, if anyone previously accepted here has any application tips, please do share. Thank you!

Hi there easily excited-

Yes. I did volunteer work at a couple local hospitals in September 2018 - May 2019. what about you?

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Thank you for your quick reply! I have 2 years of volunteer work, but not in the healthcare setting. I did volunteer at a hospital, 72 hours (only 1 Summer) many years ago, but it's not recent experience, so much time has passed. I would feel silly putting it on my application. Do you think not having healthcare volunteer experience will hurt me?

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Also, did y'all upload your volunteer work under the experiences section, or did you just included it in your resume? I was thinking resume but wanted to ask what y'all did. Thank you so much!

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Hi Michelle and Christina,

Hope you both are having a great day!!

Michelle, I sort of did a combo of both. I put some of my more recent volunteer experiences in the "experiences" section, but I figured since they have my resume anyway, they'll probably just use that as the go-to document anyway. At least, I would think that'd be the case. It is kind of strange that they have you essentially re-type what is already on the resume, though.

As for my volunteer experience, I've been a crisis counselor with Crisis Text Line since 2017, which JHU confirmed counts as "healthcare experience" in a volunteer capacity. I also included international volunteering I've done with underserved communities and refugees, which had nothing to do with healthcare, but I think it still is impressive (I hope? haha) because it shows I'm more than willing to go to foreign countries where I can't speak the language and do my best to help out.

Christina- I hope you get in this time!! ❤️ Rooting for you!! I have heard that early application makes a huge difference, so let's hope we both get in! ?

Michelle- ahh, come to JHU with us! haha. That's exciting about the whole law school thing and not quite knowing where you'll end up- it's like one big adventure! Love that. Is he applying anywhere that you really don't want to live? haha. Also, I think you should put any and all health related volunteer stuff on your application. They can't know about it if you don't include it, and you never know what they might want to see or be happy about seeing.

One thing I've learned in working with NursingCAS is that they take quite a while to process things. I have everything done on my end and today I was told it would take them 2-4 weeks to process everything.. I really sincerely hope it doesn't take that long, but if that's how long it takes for them to eventually get my application to JHU then there's nothing I can do except just be patient.

Also, I think one of you asked me about how my background fits into nursing- I think... in a broad sense...it fits in because I have always sought out roles where I can help people in a practical way. I basically boycotted the idea of corporate jobs pretty early on haha, I refused to do anything that was more about a bottom line than about helping people. I can't imagine working in a position where I don't help people, somehow. I had always loved classes that were detailed about the human body as well. As a psychology major, my favorite classes were cognitive psych, which was all technical information about the brain, and perception, which again was a lot of brain knowledge and how we process things.. I remember studying like crazy for an exam about how our eyes work, rods and cones etc, and I loved it. Then, in my Northwestern masters, I had one global health class that was very involved- tons of reading every week, multiple assignments each week, a quiz each week, and one day I sat back and realized that I had no problems with the workload because I loved the content so much. I even wanted more. So when I realized I had that intense passion not only for learning about health and disease, ways to prevent these things, etc. coupled with my strong passion for helping people, I decided to stop fighting my instincts that told me for many years to apply to a nursing program, and finally just do it. So here we are! ? haha Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. ha!

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Oh- I forgot something I was going to mention in regards to the application. I saw that they allow up to 4 recommenders, so I included a 4th person on there. I don't know how much it'll help, but I figured it can't hurt since they allow up to 4 anyway. Has anyone else done this, or is thinking about doing it? I had 3 professors from my Northwestern masters program and then 1 person I used to work with at Lens Crafters, who was a manager, since Lens Crafters is health related (eye health, anyway).

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Hi EE-

No. I mean, I think you should put the 2 years of volunteer experience in there. it can't hurt..Honestly, you should put whatever it is about you that shows how fabulous you are! I put volunteer experiences into my resume under related experiences.

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Hi Jen-

Thank you for saying that. I am rooting for you also. I can totally relate to the human body interest stuff. I feel the same way. mind and body are interconnected so it would make sense that we would be drawn to the medical field after coming from psychology field. I like trying to figure out what part of the body the pain is coming from..I put 3 references. are you thinking about doing a specialty afterwards? if so, what are you thinking?

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Christina,

Yes!! So much of the mind and body is interconnected. I feel like it is nearly impossible to treat one without the other. I am definitely wanting to do a specialty, and so far I've thought a lot about trauma and ED work. I work my best in very fast pace situations- it's weird, when I have to work at a really fast pace, I feel like I can think more clearly, like everything else kind of fades away and I see a direct path to what needs to be done..so I think that could be a useful skill in trauma and the ED. I'm interested in volunteering with search and rescue down the road too, which relates to trauma as well. However, I also know that maybe something in clinicals will surprise me and really pique my interest, so I'm also trying to keep an open mind. I do know I eventually want my DNP as well. What about you? ?

Jen

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Hi Jen-

SAME HERE! LOL. I hate slow..Fast keeps me focused. I was thinking about doing a speciality in either acute care np or crna. I really like trying to figure out the complex cases. I am also the type who likes to "BE" there all the time to make sure stuff is done right. Hopefully, there will be lots of action and plenty of cool stories to tell at clinicals.

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Christina,

I had to laugh when I read your comment because about 15 minutes ago I went on a rant to my dad about how I felt I needed to be present for a project I am consulting for so that things were "kept on the ball". I can completely relate to what you wrote! It sounds like were definitely cut from the same cloth haha. I think as I was ranting I said something like, I'm on the ball, why aren't they on the ball? We all need to be on the ball. Let's get things done. (of course my dad just laughed at me). At least we both know we will be excellent nurses because we will advocate for our patients and get things done! ?

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Jen,

LOL. I agree. It's hopefully, something to look forward to.

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Has anyone else submitted their applications yet? Is anyone else super nervous (even though we have months to wait?) haha. I was thinking about post-bachelors courses...I took a bunch after my bachelors... do you think that just gets factored into the overall undergraduate GPA? I'll have a graduate level GPA too, but, I would think post-bac stuff is a part of the undergraduate GPA??

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