UVA Grad Nursing

After Saturday morning, there will be a link that indicates that the letter is available. The link will become valid on that day. Information about the Conway Scholarships will be sent in February (after we know who has accepted the offer of admiss...

The decisions will be available on Saturday, December 20. You will need to log into the application itself and there will be a link that says "Your Admissions Decision is Available". Click on that link to see the decision letter. That link "goes l...

While there are many Direct Entry MSN programs that would prepare you to become a nurse and a NP in one 3-year (full-time program), none of these are fully online. None of these are in Kansas. Since you are not available to relocate to another sta...

Are you open to relocation for a teaching position or a long commute? My University has offered the NFLP since 2006, and we have seen the opportunity for loan cancellation if you are open to moving where the jobs may be. It is hard to know precis...

®Nurse The finance component is covered in our Care Environment Management I & II classes. The course description for the second semester class is: The course emphasizes the role of the Clinical Nurse Leader as a leader, educator, and advocate...

We've had a CNL program for a decade now, and have three entry points (Masters Entry, RN with an Associates Degree, and BSN-prepared). We instruct our Master's Entry folks that they will be interviewing for the same novice/new grad positions that ...

Phil: In the second summer of the program all students take a course in Community & Population Health. The classroom part of this course is taught across 2 weeks. Then students have 4-6 weeks for their practicum experiences for this course. Ab...

elefant: Most of our applicants are instate residents anyways (nearly 70% last year), so we have not needed to focus on the 50% Virginian requirement. The admissions committee focuses on selecting the best candidates -- instate/out-of-state status h...

We do offer a very holistic review process. The faculty on the admissions committee consider your overall undergraduate GPA, the particular grades received in the 5 prerequisite classes, your volunteer experience, your healthcare experience, your p...

UDC = Univ of the District of Columbia. You would either need to contact the Washington DC nursing board, or look on the website for the ACEN for the accreditation status for any associate degree or LPN program in the US.

The University of Virginia also accepts students directly from high school into the nursing school. The nursing classes and liberal arts core are threaded through all 4 years of the program.

There is a small number of online programs to learn to become a RN. But I would be wary of them. In many states, graduates of these online programs are prohibited to sitting for the RN examination and becoming licensed. In my own state of Virginia...

The mean duration of full-time students in our BSN-PhD program is just under 5 years. This would include approximately 3 years of coursework for the MSN and PhD and then approximately 2 years for comprehensives and the dissertation project. Our MSN...

According to the website of the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), the AAS program at UDC is on warning. The last visit was in 2012 and they are scheduled for another visit this fall. ACEN is the agency that accredits all as...

If your interest is in public health nursing, why not look at your local public health department. I know many nurses in public health departments and clinics with only Associate degrees.

Numbers will vary from school to school, but in general there are many more people applying for pre-licensure programs (those training you to become a RN) than for RN-BSN programs. The pre-licensure programs are also more resource intensive (requiri...

There will be a need for NPs in the US, but not in all markets or all cities. In my own town of Charlottesville (population 45,000), the FNP market is fairly saturated with the only jobs opening when someone moves away or retires. There are, howev...

We allow people to complete their DNP practica at their employment site, but not to use their work time as clinical time. So you cannot get paid for the same experiences for which you are earning academic credit.

We have been graduating Master's Entry students since 2007; we award a MSN degree to those from non-nursing backgrounds. None have had any difficulty being hired at Magnet facilities or at the V.A which also has a BSN requirement.

The DNP degree is a doctoral degree in nursing. Since you do not have a Master's in Nursing, you should consider the many BSN-DNP pathways in the country. The MSN-DNP pathways would not be appropriate for you since you do not have a Master's in Nu...

Go for an accelerated program (ABSN or a Master's Entry). There will be prereqs to take before you apply, but you should be able to take these at your local community college. We've enrolled folks with fine arts degrees into our Master's Entry progr...

We have a number of military nurses in our graduate nursing programs at the University of Virginia. The payback for DUINS, AFIT, and Army Long Term Education for grad school is two years of service for every year of schooling covered. DNAP progra...

DNPs are in specialty tracks that relate to direct patient care (mostly the Advanced Practice RN roles) or in the care of populations/communities (public health nursing, etc). Not all nursing disciplines fall under the guidelines of the DNP Essenti...

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The employment situations will vary from region to region. Here in my state of Virginia, employment for WHNPs has been tightening. At the state NP conference this year, I talked with many WHNPs with 10+ years of experience who are going back to sch...