I am a first year male nursing student at Jacksonville State University. I am planning to apply to the Adult Nurse Practitioner program at University of Alabama in Birmingham for Fall 2013. I have several questions for whom who want to share their experience or want to give me some advices:
1. What criteria do they look at when they pick applicants? GPA/GMAT score/Experience/Extracurricula/Essay/..., and which criterion is more favorable than the others?
2. If I was to attend the program right after BSN, is it possible? (graduate Spring 2013, apply for Fall 2013) Do they take the the NCLEX as a admission requirement?
3. What is some extra good advices you can give me?
Anybody who got accepted, is applying or plan to apply to NP at UAB?
I am awaiting to see if I am accepted for the PMHNP program, part-time spring 2012. My GPA overall is high enough for waiving the GRE and MAT. They actually calculate both, overall and last 60 hours taken and take the highest. I also know a young man that has applied to the PMHNP track, but they have required him to have one years experience before even considering his application. He is currently taking courses as a non-degree student, but you can only take 12 hours of those and only certain ones. I do know they also have decided to decrease the amount of students being accepted into any nursing program, not sure why, but could be lack of staff? also, there are many cc in our area graduating 100+ students each year and flooding the area. The ANCC recommendation/proposal of having a DNP to practice as an NP after 2015 has also driven many to return to school.
If you decided to do the no-degree thing, you need to take patho, research, and adv assess and diag alone. Very deep, lots of discussions, activities and papers. You also have to have a "B" in each class to count and can only repeat once. Just some FYI stuff.
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I am awaiting to see if I am accepted for the PMHNP program, part-time spring 2012. My GPA overall is high enough for waiving the GRE and MAT. They actually calculate both, overall and last 60 hours taken and take the highest. I also know a young man that has applied to the PMHNP track, but they have required him to have one years experience before even considering his application. He is currently taking courses as a non-degree student, but you can only take 12 hours of those and only certain ones. I do know they also have decided to decrease the amount of students being accepted into any nursing program, not sure why, but could be lack of staff? also, there are many cc in our area graduating 100+ students each year and flooding the area. The ANCC recommendation/proposal of having a DNP to practice as an NP after 2015 has also driven many to return to school.
If you decided to do the no-degree thing, you need to take patho, research, and adv assess and diag alone. Very deep, lots of discussions, activities and papers. You also have to have a "B" in each class to count and can only repeat once. Just some FYI stuff.