MiHopeFull

I'm a 2016 graduate of the program, let me know if you have questions.

Experience goals, what lead you to apply to the program etc..

Heads up, if you did not get in and want to apply to another speciality they reopened the deadline for several specialities from March 2-April 1.

I got my acceptance email today, for FNP.

Ohio State U. offers direct entry NP with no nursing experience.

When I was a bedside nurse at Ohio State U $25.00 an hour, you commit to a minimum of 4 hours, and they give it out like candy. After, the first 4 hours I was making time and a half, plus the other incentives so around $70 an hour I think. You could pick it up every day if you were willing to work any unit.

When I worked in Columbus Ohio, there was a bedside nurse making 260,000 at my hospital, was working 6-7 days a week though it was at a major university with all the employee salaries being publicly available.

In general 3 years part time, 2 years full time.

I applied to Post-Masters FNP, fingers crossed.

Oh yes you are correct, I thought you were out of state, it would be within a 2-hour drive of your home address, and 1 semester you would be expected to go anywhere in the state.

It comes as a surprise to everyone, the clinical portion, the last 3 semesters is 3 days a week and 1 day of classes, you have a figure in the travel times and getting hotels often complicates things. We are talking about the onsite FNP? the online distance program you have to arrange your own preceptor's. One semester your clinical can be anywhere in the state, the other semester's 1.5-2 hour drive radius from Columbus.

They provide preceptors, but the site can be up to 2-hour drive from Columbus, and 1 of the semesters they will place you anywhere in the state of Ohio, a friend lives in Columbus, but gets a hotel in Clevland a few times a week.

Ya, it's only part time which is 2-3 classes per semester till you hit the last 3 semesters. The last 3 semesters, you need to do 670 hours of clinical for FNP, a typical clinical experience is 6-7 hours per day, since most of the clinic's are open around 8 hours, so around 18 hours a week give or take. Some, of my friends in Acute care NP, where able to work 12 hour clinicals in the ER, or ICU which shortened the number of shifts per week. Family is more difficult to do this, since most place you will go to are open only 8 hours a day. There is one class meeting per week as well, not sure how they work it for online students. When I went to OSU, they told us family NP only has a 25-30% acceptance rate, so I ended up going into another specialty, I have a lot of friends who got in, and a lot who got rejected, and there does not seem to be any rhyme or reason as to why.

I have a friend who just started the clinical portion. He said 3 clinical's per week, then one 1 class meeting per week.

Everything is garbage compared to Uworld.