JustOneRN

It's going very well. Here is my summary and perspective. I have 5 years Critical Care experience (PCU, ICU, ER, PACU), work full time and have a family with young children. I am enrolled full time. The first year, as noted by previous students, is very manageable with full time work ( depending on your ability for self-discipline, time management, and also your desire for material retention). Across the board in graduate programs they will assign/suggest reading that is typically more than most students will actually read. The less you work/more time you devote to school, the more you can read/retain. I keep hearing that year 2 is very much more intense. I plan to scale down to part-time or per diem (hoping for per diem) to focus on more of the material I honestly care more about retaining and spend more time reading/studying/absorbing (take a look at the curriculum grid on the website for an example). I went back and forth between a cheap online program vs brick and mortar for years and..up until the last minute. While there is an endless supply of discussion about this on allnurses and the web, I will not revisit. My personal thoughts of my personal situation are as follows. I chose UW because I always wanted to attend and, in the end, wanted both the name recognition and the training that I thought I would receive at UW. Thus far, I am not too impressed (and I have no experience of an online DNP program to compare it too)- we are online and learning distance and I am paying double what I could've paid at a online school for virtually the same format. But I am only in the first year... time will tell. However, I'm in the AGACNP track and part of my hope was for the anticipated skills labs, lectures, and preceptors (set up for me) to exceed those of an online program. Time will tell for this also but I do have one important thing to consider that makes my experience unique. I have worked all acute care and work in a float pool where I am exposed to numerous providers and potential preceptors. I always knew that if needed I could likely find my own. I am also very sociable so I knew this could help as well...I live 1.5 hrs away from the campus and my track lead suggested that if I was interested to reach out to potential preceptors in this area to decrease the commute burden for my precepting experience in the Seattle area...since then I have found all of my potential preceptors! While I will likely commute to Seattle for a few rotations with some preceptors I've connected with the ICUs, I wouldn't need to if I didn't want to. In summary, my thoughts are: If you're well connected and experienced, don't mind missing out on the brand name recognition, and do well with self study, you could probably save half the money by attending an online school. But if you crave the name recognition, want your rotations set up for you, and desire a (arguable and debatable) higher education, or have a personal dream of going to a school like UW - then follow your heart and do it!

JBMmom, how is the program going for you? Any chance we could talk about your experience and how the education is structured? Have you done the skills intensive yet? How is it? What do they go over?

Anyone attend and/or graduate from Pursue Global for any of their nurse practitioner specialties? I know a lot of online or hybrid schools are a lot of self learning. I’ve read the forums and went back and forth for quite some time. I’m looking into Purdue Global and would love to hear from someone who is near the end or has graduated from the program... How was the education? How was your experience with preceptors? thanks!

I’m on waitlist as well. Got the same response about how they might have a better idea at the end of March. Emailed beginning of April and they said there’s been no movement on the waitlist and there might be movement “in the next couple of months or so.” Fingers crossed :)

For those who were accepted, when did you need to let them know of your intent to enroll?