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NCLEX? FNU is a nurse practitioner and nurse midwife graduate program offering master's and doctorate degrees. You have to have already passed the NCLEX and be an RN with at least a year of experience to apply. If you're asking if it adequately prepares you for your certification boards to become a nurse practitioner or nurse midwife, I found it to be more than adequate, and passed my boards without issue.

Hello Miss Laura... Wow, 52 identical posts across this forum all requesting people to email you. Do you need friends that badly? I think not. Your profile has been reported as a spam queen. Have a nice day.

Frontier took my Excelsior ADN no problem.

The best thing you can do to pass the CPNE is attend a week-long simulation workshop. There's several offered around the country. I went to one and passed the CPNE with no retakes on the first try, and I don't even have a nursing background (paramedic). Good luck!

You must have a Bachelor's degree and are applying to the regular MSN track? I just have the ADN-RN and am in the Bridge program, we get Stats and PA as part of the first year's courses, so I can't help you on that. I know some schools have eliminated their MSN program in favor of the DNP (Washington State University is one of them), but I don't know if that NLN recommendation has really gone into effect. You'd want to ask Frontier directly if they were planning to eliminate their MSN program. As of right now, it's certainly still just an option as there are plenty of Master's NP programs around still. --EquuszRN

But apparently, not your use of apostrophes.

Yes. Three times if you're in the Bridge program.

Well I don't know for sure, I'd call their Board of Nursing. But "online MSN" to me is like the Clinical Nurse Educator or those types of Master's programs that don't have clinicals. It would be impossible to have a nurse practitioner program without a year of clinicals, and that makes it not a typical "online program". If you find out Texas wouldn't accept it, please let us know because that's something I think could be challenged in the legislature. Especially since Frontier is a very reputable school and was started by Mary Breckinridge...one of the icons of nursing whom every nursing student learns about in school!

Try correctional nursing. I did it for a year and the only reason I left was to go overseas and make more money for nurse practitioner tuition. They REALLY like male RN's in corrections. Might return to it after I get my FNP, at least until I'm experienced enough to open my own practice. Another upside is, there's usually lots of overtime and good benefits. --EquuszRN

Huh? A nurse practitioner license is a nurse practitioner license. There are no states that wouldn't accept a Frontier graduate if they've passed the national exam. I know there are a few states don't accept Excelsior grads' RN licenses because of the lack of clinical hours, but this is a whole different movie. This is graduate school advanced practice nursing, with a whole year of clinicals. No comparison. Having said that, I wonder if an Excelsior-grad RN (like me) who goes on to NP would have trouble getting licensed in one of the states that rejects Excelsior, since you usually have to have both the RN license and the NP license in the state you want to practice in. Definitely something for me to research, but doesn't have anything to do with the Frontier part.

LoveMy3Girls - I was also accepted to Bridge Class #102. Exciting, isn't it? See you in May! I'll probably be the only dude there. Ha!

Well, they took me and my RN experience has been unusual to say the least. I've been a paramedic for 20 years, and an RN for two. The last 7 years or so I've been working in remote sites like oil ships and currently in Afghanistan - these are expanded scope, almost midlevel type positions because we suture, do primary care etc without a doc on site. So that probably helped. But I certainly didn't have typical med-surg RN experience! I just found out I was accepted into the ADN-MSN Bridge class 102 in the FNP track. I have the campus orientation in June...can't wait to get started, it seems like a great program! --EquuszRN

I haven't heard of any place doing clinicals for nurses that weren't their own students but I suppose it's possible. But if I were you I would take my NCLEX there in AZ; you should be able to work at the VA in Washington under any state license. Good luck! --Equusz

There doesn't seem to be any place to do a 1000 hour internship in WA. I would take the NCLEX and work 1000 hours in AZ before you move, otherwise you'll have to test and work in Oregon or Idaho. Or possibly the VA in Washington will let you work there with another state's license. --EquuszRN

Just thought I would update how it worked out: I live in Oregon but right on the Washington border so I wanted to have licenses in both states. Oregon has no restriction on Excelsior graduates so I took and passed the NCLEX-RN there. I then continued my work as medical officer on an offshore oil ship (now as the ship's nurse) until I had the 1,000 hours. (I was coming in as a paramedic-to-RN not LPN-to-RN so I wasn't eligible to qualify using a nursing internship, which doesn't seem to exist in Washington anyway.) There's no place on the application to document "1,000 hours worked as an RN in another state"; it doesn't even ask about your employment history, just other states licensed in. But, sure enough, they sent me a letter saying I needed to show documentation of those hours. Fortunately, since I was working on a U.S. flagged vessel in U.S. waters, it qualified as "another state", so after I sent them a confirmation letter from my employer I was granted the license. So if you're wanting to endorse into Washington from another state, you DO need to have the 1,000 hours. Hope this helps. --EquuszRN