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I was writing to get opinions or facts about a certain issue. I am currently in a BSN to DNP program for NP. The school has always maintained that they will find us clinical sites, which they have. Some have been better than others, and at times students have had trouble getting hours in because the preceptors call off, go on vacation, switch days with other co-workers, get sick, etc. This semester has been a disaster, as within the first week of school a preceptor was fired who had been assigned to several students for the 16 weeks. Needless to say, those students had to be squeezed in at other sites that already had students which prevented the original students from completing their required hours prior to mid-term. The second disaster and unfortunate event was a preceptor's husband passed away suddenly leaving myself and another student without a Women's Health site to work at for the second half of the semester. The school has yet to find alternative arrangements and attempting to find a site on my own has proven fruitless. My question is, can the school rightfully give you an incomplete when it was their responsibility to find a clinical site for you? As of now, we are being threatened with an incomplete if we can't finish our mandated 120 hours. Any suggestions?

Are you or have you been following the recommended 36 month plan? Are the quarters with two classes manageable?What have you found to be the hardest class/easiest class? I heard that financial aid doesn't count you as full time unless you have at least 4.5 credits per quarter. Is this true?

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Was anyone accepted as a wait list student for the FNP program? If so, have you heard anything else yet? Just FYI I know someone who is in the pediatric program. She works 3 12's and has no kids, does the advised curriculum plan for the 36 months and she said it's tough, plain and simple. A lot of papers and a lot of research.

I don't think the first class starts till Sept. 23rd. If that helps. One more week till notices! Good luck!! $

I'm going to ask a bunch of questions answer what you can, I know not all questions pertain to everyone. So the part time curriculum has 4 quarters and per quarter has classes as so: 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 Do you think the part time curriculum is manageable with working full time days and two kids? I have been in school for the last 3 years taking anywhere from 12-15 credits, so I think I will be okay, but for some of the classes that only have one class per quarter, I wonder if it's possible to do 2? Any suggestions for course sequence? Overall, how many days do you spend on campus (for those on campus days) and when we do clinical, how many days a week do you do the clinicals? What areas are they looking for you to get when you have to obtain your clinical sites? (Dr.'s office, long term care, hospital??) Also, I heard Drexel sets you up for your online tests with some major security features in place. Is this true? Are any of the assignments able to be worked on in a group setting? Has anyone come in as a non-matriculated student? Does anyone know why this program has so many credit requirements in comparison to other local schools? Sorry for all the questions, but any help would be greatly appreciated. I've started to hear some negative things about this program, but I don't want to waste any more time and money applying to other schools.

Hi everyone! Congrats on being accepted into Drexel. I am currently finishing up my BSN, (I graduated in May, but have to complete two courses right now (over the summer) to fulfill my requirements. I applied to Drexel and received a wait list reply for this fall but with automatic admission to the following cohort (2015) if nothing opens up this fall. Drexel allows you to take 9 or 12 credits ( I forget) as a non-matriculated student, which I think I will do if I don't make it in this fall. I do not want to put this off for another year. The sad part about that is, I would have to apply as a non matriculated student and that would remove me from the wait list, and would have to reapply for the cohort next fall, but they said they have never had anyone not get in when doing it that way. It just makes me a little nervous. My other thought was, if I do make it as a non-matriculated student, I could take the 3 "P's" at West Chester, where I live, and take the other ones concurrently at Drexel to really knock some courses out, not to mention, WCU are the typical 15-16 week semesters. I think Drexel will take up to 9 or 12 graduate transfer courses. I heard that even two classes at Drexel are grueling. Is everyone working full-time and doing the part-time program?

Did you apply? Get accepted? I applied and have been added to the wait list. I wonder what the likelihood is of getting in in the Fall?