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Did anyone apply to Marquette DEMSN for Fall 2019? Looking to connect with other applicants!
Hi all,
I was recently accepted into the Spring 2021 program at Pleasant Prairie and was wondering if someone that is currently in the program could answer some questions. Mainly around the time you are actually required to be on campus (especially with COVID) and how you like the program, if you feel it is setting you up for success in a career as an RN, etc.
Thanks for the help!
Hi SARM212,
Feel free to PM me if you have more specific questions.
Obviously, COVID can require things to change rapidly, but currently first semester students are meeting the same as typically scheduled with 1 day per week in skills lab and I believe that exams are being administered remotely with the expectation that all students are to take them from home utilizing a school provided lockdown browser program and at a specific, scheduled time. You also typically have 3 days clinical experience at a nursing home in semester 1, but I'm not sure that is currently happening given the restrictions at nursing homes nor am I sure as to how they are making up for that clinical experience as I am currently a 4th semester student.
Honestly, I really like the program. It is a lot of hard work and very time consuming. This program does a great job of not only preparing you for being a nurse, but also requiring you to complete rigorous graduate level coursework that you will be able to build upon either in future schooling or in your career. Additionally, the program is an asynchronous program with your lecture work fully online, which means you need to be prepared to do the majority of the work yourself. The professor are there to guide you and to help you if you are not understanding information, but they are not going to spoon feed you the information you need to know like some professors may have done in undergrad in-person lectures. I know that for some of my peers that have come directly from undergrad, this has been a very difficult transition for them along with the need for having to find a time management strategy that works well for them in a program where most assignments are due on the same day at the end of the week.
BrenMar
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Like many of the other recent posters on here, I also got waitlisted for the fall and accepted for the spring!