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My decision was up for my MSN program today. ADMIT! Woohoo!

I talked to the admissions office about graduate decisions today. They said people would be notified towards the end of the month.

I took the inpatient obstetrics review in 2009 and sat for the test on the third day. I thought the review class was really helpful in brushing up on the concepts on the test. The review text that came with the class was teriffic. The only downside was the paper and pencil testing and the long wait that ensues finding out if you passed. Well worth the money in my opinion.

I had new grads in a couple of my classes, at least one of whom was in the same situation as you. They either answered papers with hypotheticals or from situations they had seen in clinicals. I'm sure instructors will be willing to work with you, they are very flexible! You may have to be a little more creative in your papers, but all that paper writing involves a fair amount of BSing anyway.

There are no clinicals and no going anywhere for any of the classes. In community health you will do research on a community health problem in your area and focus on the resources available to the community. I found all of my information online for this class, but I know some people visited or spoke with public health departments, free clinics, etc. The capstone course will focus on a problem you've identified in your work area. Collaborative healthcare has you set some goals for your professional development at your job. The research class was just breaking down how research is done and articles are put together. I finished up in December. I recommend the program. There were no extra surprises or hoops to jump through, and I never had any issues come up in the program. Let me know if you have any other questions.

I am applying to a MSN program for Fall 2012. I called them Wednesday, freaking out because one of my letters of reference had not been posted. They told me they had a ton to process, and they posted it Friday morning. Now my application is complete and ready to review! :) Gotta cross my fingers for awhile. Does anyone know when they expect to make decisions?

I had the exact experience that SuesquatchRN did. Chamberlain was more expensive, but has less ridiculous hoops to jump through. I am 2 weeks away from finishing all of my classes for my BSN and very happy with my experience. One thing to look at is how many credits you can transfer in to each school. Although Chamberlain was more expensive per credit hour, it ended up that many of the programs would have been a similar cost because they wouldn't accept as many of my transfer credits.

NR 351 (Transitions) teaches you all about how to write an APA format paper. Do yourself a favor and buy a program called PERLLA. It is an add on for Word that helps you automatically format your references in APA format. It also keeps your previous references in a database, so you can pull them into a new paper. It's handy because in many of the classes you write about the same subject for several papers. Good luck, you'll do great!

Thanks for the info! I asked JHSON and they gave me some standard admissions data for the whole school. Obviously this program is pretty different.

Are you aware of admissions rates or percentage of students who got federal funding for your cohort? I've tried getting though to the admissions department, but no luck hearing back from them so far. Congrats on your new job!

EBP isn't too bad. Three of the weeks are reading the same two studies and identifying the different parts of the research. The other two papers are just annotated bibliographies of 7 articles that pertain to your topic. One paper is 3 articles and the other is 4 articles. Don't get worried! It is a bit of writing, but in my book it was much easier than writing a complete research paper.

Rent the textbooks! I rented all of mine through chegg.com (there are other rental websites as well) and have never felt like I would have needed to keep any of them. The only book I've bought was the APA manual, which you will need constantly.

I got my grade for Econ yesterday. Luckily I'm carrying on my 4.0! So Econ may be hard but it is do-able. Remember to attend the live lectures, or at least view the recording. Those were really the key to getting a good grade.

Pardon my mistype! That's what I get for replying late at night. Around here most of the reproductive endocrinologists have gone to single embryo transfer for women who have a good prognosis, which the EBP supports. It seems unethical to be transferring multiple embryos into a patient who so strongly desires a singleton pregnancy. Of course, there is the chance of the embryo splitting, but I would be interested to know how many embryos the REs are transferring in these women, because it sounds like multiple embryos every time.

I'm confused as to why the MD would implant more than one embryo if the patient had already decided to only have a singleton pregnancy?