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have you ever used the app Figure1? It is sort of like a facebook meets instagram but for medical/healthcare professionals to share interesting cases and also discuss best practices.

Just remember that if you have to take out student loans those usually start coming due 6 months after you graduate, you could possibly get it deferred for up to a year but I am not certain. But if you're just working as an RN and then those student loan payments kick in it may be trouble. If I were you I would change things up by finding a new job either at a different hospital and in the same setting or maybe try your hand at a different type of nursing to get out of that environment and then choose your track for graduate school based on where your strengths and interests lie, not in what you think is going to give you the coziest career. There are tens of thousands of people who never work a weekend, a night shift, or a holiday but end up still hating their jobs, if you're that worried about "limiting" yourself just do a dual track degree or a post master's. or do what a lot of people I know have done, go be a travel nurse, save up a big bankroll and go back to school on your own dime or with minimal loans.

From reading posts in the NP forum the consensus seemed to be that employers at the NP level did not really care about your RN experience because you will not be practicing as an RN for them. They care about your professionalism, your ability to function as an advanced provider and many people mentioned having a portfolio of some kind to show off the experiences they gained during their clinical year/s

are you saying that you want to pursue a DNP because employers will be expecting it in your state? From the Maryland BON webiste and others I couldn't find anything that stated you are required to have a DNP to be an advanced practice nurse, only that you have to graduate from a program approved by the state board which I believe includes MSN degrees from places out of state.

be wary of these programs. There has been a lot of news coverage recently of the majority of applicants getting screwed out of these plans as you have to have the exact right type of loan, the exact type or repayment plan and from the required lenders, it's so complicated that many lenders don't even know the rules. You can believe you're doing everything right then find out that something was not correctly done on the application or the type of loan was the wrong kind and then be stuck with the loan plus interest. Something like only 3% of applicants are actually getting loan forgiveness currently, it's especially hitting teachers hard.

your hospital system may have an office for Advanced Practice Provider placement or something similar. There are usually deadlines to apply to such things though but my understanding is that they help connect you with preceptors within the network and possibly recruit you once you graduate.

I'll admit to be a little confused at your question. To my knowledge under the consensus model there are no longer just "acute care NP's" and "gerontology NP's." The specialty is now adult-gero acute care NP. I guess i'm confused since you stated you were conflicted between acute care vs gero care but maybe you meant that you felt only being eligible to work acute care areas unlike say an FNP would be limiting? AGACNP's work in different settings besides just a hospital, it's the patient population that matters not the setting. You will specialize in caring for acutely ill population from ages 13 on up. You could work out of say a cardiology group office and round on their inpatient's or work for an intensivist group or a hospitalist group and so on. You can always go back for a post masters in primary care or the like if you want too, or there are schools that offer dual FNP-AGACNP tracks.

unfortunately no additional information online that I could find. I spoke to one of their general admission people who explained a little bit that the classes are all 7 weeks and pretty much self paced. you get your assignments and it's up to you to complete them all within the 7 weeks. there is zero on campus visits required, if you're not too far from nku they have a list of potential preceptor sites nearby. also told me that if you enroll for the 2nd part of the fall quarter that begins in October you get a $7,000 scholarship from the school to use for tuition. I wouldn't be able to find out anything more specific unless I got accepted and spoke to one of the nursing advisors. All in all I decided to avoid nku as I don't believe 7 weeks is enough time to properly cover important topics like advanced pharm or advanced patho and felt like I'd basically be paying for a syllabus and teaching myself.

Trying to find any first hand knowledge on NKU's online MSN program set up. How the classes were presented, professor support, would you recommend the programs, I'm interested in the acute care NP Program specifically.

I'm not sure how old this discussion is but i'm possibly enrolling in NKU's online AGACNP program october 2018. Any experience with the program yet?