Nipissing SPP 2020 Applicants

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Hi! I am applying to Nipissing's Scholar Practitioner Program for Fall 2020. I am really excited about it and would love to connect with other students who are in the same boat!

How is your application going?

20 hours ago, NurseAlden said:

Hi y'all,

I'm currently in my second semester of the Nipissing program and saw this thread link in the second entry post (used to look at these so much when I was applying as well). If you have burning questions, feel free to ask away and I'll try my best to answer ?

Hi! Thanks so much!

Could you further expand on what the "narrative-inquiry pedagogy" is?

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On 1/21/2020 at 5:29 PM, NurseAlden said:

Hi y'all,

I'm currently in my second semester of the Nipissing program and saw this thread link in the second entry post (used to look at these so much when I was applying as well). If you have burning questions, feel free to ask away and I'll try my best to answer ?

Hello pls can you insight into how to prepare for the interview? What do we need to do. A friend did the interview but didn't do well and she said she did all but don't know why she wasn't given the admission.

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On 1/22/2020 at 3:44 PM, NurseAlden said:

The program itself is very different from anything you've probably experienced ever in school. We usually have a month of "lecture" but the content itself in those is more theory and research stuff, not necessarily skills (skills you do learn eventually but it is not heavily practiced in that month of lectures). After that, we go straight to clinicals (even in first semester) for 2 months at a minimum of 24 hours a week (either three 8 hour shifts or two 12 hour shifts for those 2 months). Additionally, we have 1 reflection class every week in those 2 months (these are with your peers where you discuss experiences that happened during the week). We dont do traditional tests like undergrad. Instead we have a final portfolio project worth over half our mark at the end. It is a very self-taught program for the most part. I say this because we do not learn nursing skills specifically through our lectures. They are learned during your clinical placement as well as looking it up on your own. However, you learn so much during clinical because each student has 1-to-1 preceptorship. So, you basically shadow and help out a designated nurse for 2 months each semester. Just you and the nurse, so you're bound to learn a lot of things as opposed to shadowing a nurse with 3-4 other students. All these things will be covered to you once you meet faculty or make the interview process.

As for the application, I don't think my letter really highlighted anything too fancy. I included things like: why I wanted to be a nurse, why the program structure would benefit me, and volunteer experiences (I volunteered at one hospital, was a sex-ed counseling volunteer, and helped out a professor in teaching students human anatomy). I made my personal statement sound really passionate on why I wanted to be a nurse and used experiences that I had previously to kind of support it. As for grades, if your third year wasn't too good try to do better on your last year. My total avg for last 10 courses of my undergrad was not a 4.0 or anything I think it was maybe like 3.6-3.7 gpa. I do know that the program definitely looks out stuff other than grades though. Like Casper, the reference letter, personal statement, etc. I know this from asking faculty to, that the interview is weighted extremely highly. So, if you get to the interview stage, you definitely want to try your best there and do all the basic stuff correctly (eye contact, clear voice, confidence, enthusiasm, etc). Hope this helped ?

I really can't thank you enough because this has been incredibly helpful. Reading this makes me more excited about this program than I was before!! Other than my undergrad university, this is the only other program I am applying for because I love the structure of the program...now its all a matter of conveying my interest and experiences to the admissions committee.

Also, congratulations on being admitted to the program!!

Thank you!!!

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Hey everyone!

I'm applying to the 2020 program as well. I am aiming to have between a 3.45-3.67 gpa by the end of this year. I have a broad range of ECs but still feeling really anxious about hearing back from the program. I've been involved in varying work/volunteer experiences since even before undergrad; spent 3 years working as a Tutor with kids of all ages, was part of Youth Advisory Councils with the local hospital's cancer prevention program, volunteered in a soup kitchen during a portion of high school as well as worked with Relay for Life throughout high school and university. Did volunteering through the summers at U of T with Heart and Stroke Foundation and Canadian Cancer Society, as well as community clean ups and volunteering to plan and coordinate faculty events along with my profs and TAs. Additionally, I worked as an instructor for U of T's high school summer programs (med faculty) and have been heavily involved in dance and a campus cultural association for the last 2 years. I've also familiarized myself with health care through caring for my grandmother.

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On 1/22/2020 at 4:13 PM, absn2020 said:

Hi! Thanks so much!

Could you further expand on what the "narrative-inquiry pedagogy" is?

Narrative inquiry is basically using stories told by patients or a person to further research and look into what the best way to care for them is. Each person is different, so care is expected to be different to cater to what that person needs. It'll make more sense if you read a paper on it which you can find just by googling

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On 1/26/2020 at 7:59 AM, Samuel Nsi said:

Hello pls can you insight into how to prepare for the interview? What do we need to do. A friend did the interview but didn't do well and she said she did all but don't know why she wasn't given the admission.

For the interview know why you wanna be a nurse, what about the program interests you, your own strengths, some info about the hospitals you would want to go to, etc. I have no clue why you're friend wasn't given admission despite completing the interview. It could just be competitive since the class size is typically 30-50.

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On 2/6/2020 at 12:37 PM, NurseAlden said:

For the interview know why you wanna be a nurse, what about the program interests you, your own strengths, some info about the hospitals you would want to go to, etc. I have no clue why you're friend wasn't given admission despite completing the interview. It could just be competitive since the class size is typically 30-50.

Thank you so much. I just saw your reply.

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Anyone gotten interview invitation yet?

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7 minutes ago, Samuel Nsi said:

Anyone gotten interview invitation yet?

I still haven't finished my Casper so I hope they haven't started sending those out yet!!

My test is on February 23rd so I think it's possible they are waiting for those results to come in before interview invitations are sent out.

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4 minutes ago, vvnursinghopeful said:

I still haven't finished my Casper so I hope they haven't started sending those out yet!!

My test is on February 23rd so I think it's possible they are waiting for those results to come in before interview invitations are sent out.

Maybe that's true. I'm just going to call this week. I'm so so anxious.

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5 minutes ago, Samuel Nsi said:

Maybe that's true. I'm just going to call this week. I'm so so anxious.

I don't think they wait for CASPer. It takes around 3 weeks for them to receive the results of the test and the interviews themselves are taking place in mid March. In the application package we got in the mail it says they send out interview offers at the end of February! Don't worry ?

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2 minutes ago, HappyGuarantee123 said:

I don't think they wait for CASPer. It takes around 3 weeks for them to receive the results of the test and the interviews themselves are taking place in mid March. In the application package we got in the mail it says they send out interview offers at the end of February! Don't worry ?

Ooo yeah, you are correct. Anxiety has made me forgotten about that. I was actually thinking invite would come this past week.

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