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When you were a Psych-NP student, what kind of psych placements did you have for your clinicals? Did you do clinicals in hospitals, community mental health clinics, nursing homes, or other places? What were they like? Did you see patients individuall...

I am in nursing school now, and it is a second career for me. So far, I'm doing OK! At my clinicals in hospital settings, just about all the nurses work 12 hour shifts except the ones with most seniority who were employed before the change in policy ...

Last year this event was open to both accepted and waitlisted students. I encourage all in either of those categories to attend (if invited, of course). You get to tour the Clinical Performance Lab, which will make you excited to start! You also get ...

This quarter I have classes all day two days a week, including both labs and lectures. I have clinicals all day two other days each week. I have one day free, but they occasionally schedule things on this day. I also have to go to the hospital the ni...

Hello everyone, I am in the APNI 2010 cohort and reading this thread brings back memories from last year. There are people in my class who were waitlisted and made it into the program. My interpretation of waitlisted is that you are qualified to do t...

JKP, I'm just beginning my Psych NP training, and very few in my program have psych training--it's a direct entry program, so they expect you to enter from other fields. I hope there will be jobs when I graduate. I went to an orientation for the new ...

If it makes a difference to you, I think one can begin a Direct Entry nursing program with less healthcare experience than a PA program. I am beginning a direct entry nursing master's program soon and my classmates have a wide range of healthcare exp...

Thanks, Lucianne. You sound like a wonderful preceptor. Is there typically a choice in placement to align with one's interests (e.g. community mental health vs. residential treatment)? Anyone else?

I'm really encouraged by all the posts here on successful treatment. I think I've had PF for about a decade. My doctor told me to do exercises which didn't help much and then suggested icing whenever they hurt. I didn't seem to be able to communicate...

Thanks, David. Makes sense.

I understand about low overhead in Mental Health, but why can PMHNPs charge cash and have patients bill their own insurance companies whereas other NP specialties cannot? Can't FNPs do this? (Probably this question is naive, but I'm just getting into...

Very good info in this thread for me too. Thanks for the posts, all. In my state, people with master's level degrees in psychology cannot be licensed or reimbursed as "Psychologists", but they can be licensed as other mental health care providers, su...

TristanT, what are some examples of clinical placements for UW MEPN students? Why do you think so many were bad? Does the faculty have few contacts with clinical sites to set them up? Thanks.

rockett, I spoke to UW Financial Aid last week, and they said I would have my financial aid award letter by the end of this week (for GEPN). Maybe it won't happen so soon, but that's what I was told. They said it would appear online in MyUW. I antici...

Do you think it is harder to get financial aid if it is your second degree?

I recently received both an email and a letter in the mail with more program details, including that a $150 deposit must be made by April 1 in order to reserve your spot in the program. After that, the letter said they would give up your spot to anot...

I am much older than 35 and beginning my program this summer. Why not?

I start Anatomy the week after next. It is my last pre-req. I already took Physiology. I'm a little nervous as Anatomy sounds like a lot of memorization. I liked Physiology because it was so much about function--how things work. If you understood how...

I have found that if the pre-nursing students are undergrads, that it is better to tutor in a small group than individually. Individually, the hourly rate is too high for most undergrads to pay, so they can split the cost among several and get close ...

Sometimes people have to accept multiple places since the response deadlines and award offers are all of of synch with each other. What else can one do? You have to be able to make an informed decision. It may mean losing a deposit, but it's hard to ...

My letter of acceptance said something different. It said I had 14 days from receiving the acceptance letter to decide, which will come well before April 15. Did the School of Nursing tell you April 15 over the phone, JSBH?I too only applied to Seatt...

I think some schools count the GPA of the pre-reqs heavily, so if you have 2.9 overall but 4.0 on the pre-reqs, this would be quite favorable. I also think if the GPA is weak, that taking a couple of years out of school to work in healthcare can help...

Good luck in Rochester, malapata. I hope to see you around on these boards and hear of your experiences of U of R. And good luck to you JSBH at Samuel Merritt. I used to live on the other side of the hills from SM, and it is a lovely area (but can ge...

I'm confused by this, and it might apply to me. So if you have a previous Bachelor's degree you cannot get a federal loan to do a second Bachelor's degree? Am I interpreting that right? Or is it if you have a previous Bachelor's, you can't get a loan...

I got an email today inviting me to the new student reception (and I have been accepted), and I am planning to attend the event. I want to see their clinical training lab--I've heard it's really nice. The email was in my spam box, so watch for it the...