Neonatal Nurse Practitioner

Specialties NICU

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Hello all,

I am new to all nurses and found it to be very helpful! I am a NICU RN with three years experience and I am currently applying to the NNP programs offered at Duke University and University of Pennsylvania. I know the programs are competitive... Duke mentioned only accepting 8 people per semester at their information session this year. I was hoping for any advice on the application process.... for those who have interviewed or gotten accepted what did it seem like they were mostly looking at? thanks so much! :)

I applied to 3 programs and was accepted to all - didn't seem that it was too competitive. Have you checked out University of Cincinnati? I think that's a pretty good one as well. Right now I'm going to Creighton in Omaha. Edited to add - I had 15 years of experience and a 3.6 GPA in undergrad.

I was under the impression that NNP school admission was not as competetive becuase of lower numbers of applicants?

im not sure.... I hear different things! Some schools I have talked to say that because finding clinical sites is so difficult they can only accept a small fraction of the applicants...

Are you doing an out of state program? My general advice (something I wish I knew) was that not all states will accept clinical sites if it's an out of state school. I was accepted into one program and didn't find out until 4 months later that whoops - Washington state won't accept that school. This may not pertain to you but I'm just throwing it out there.

Hmm that's a good thing to

know... I Live in the DC area....and im applying to Duke at the moment. Nothing on their site mentioned not accepting out of state Clinicals, but I may need to ask about that.. Thanks!

Specializes in Neonatal Nurse Practitioner.

Ask your Board of Nursing. Mine is very strict and specifies which school and what programs you can enroll in. A school may have FNP, NNP, ACNP, and so on but if the board of nursing only approves the FNP, then you can't enroll in the others.

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