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The intensives consist of: skills and patient assessment check offs, lectures and this semester we have to prepare a presentation with a partner. It sounds intimidating, but the faculty is great! I only had the references requested and no additional. If I remember correctly, the personal statement letter is simply that.....why you feel a career as an NP is right for you, your accomplishments so far and why you think you will be a good fit at Anderson, etc..... I don't know stats on the accepted students. I came in with a 3.5 gpa (maybe 3.45.....). I believe there are about 12-15 of us in the FNP and about the same amount in the PHMHNP program. It's not a big group which is great because the faculty gets to know us at a personal level. I'm in Texas, but I feel like the faculty is very accesible and responsive to any of my questions or needs. I know they all know me and that's what I was looking for in an NP program. Good luck and maybe I'll see you Fall 2018!!!

Update: Spring 2018 marks my semester 2 of 4 in the FNP Program at Anderson University! What can I say about it so far? It's a lot of information and at times it is overwhelming! But nobody said NP school was going to be easy.....it's a full load of courses each semester with lots of reading and a lot of assignments each week. This semester we start clinical rotations which should add a little more stress to our lives but it will probably a great learning experience. The faculty at Anderson has been AMAZING and meeting them at our first intensive last semester helped put us at ease. They really want us to succeed and they are really there to help us! If we are willing to learn and put forth the effort, they will teach us what we need to be great NPs and pass boards. We are already doing board level questions to get us ready for our boards when we finish in December. I do work full time because I have to and I try to have a social life because I have a family. It's all about time management and setting priorities. I honestly believe Anderson's NP programs will become very popular and even more competitive once the word gets out that it's a top notch school. I highly recommend it to anyone looking into NP school. It's not a "diploma mill" type school...it's the real deal! I hope I answered some questions....

How exciting! I wonder how many of us there are....we'll find out soon. see you in September at our first campus visit! -Sammy

Thanks for replying. I'm only a second year nurse and all I know and have been taught has been scanning pt wristband and meds at bedside. It's probably BEST PRACTICE to do so but it appears that it's still not a universal requirement/practice. I agree that we must go through all the RIGHTS each and every time despite the tools we have available to avoid med errors. It was just surprising to me that an ER at a very busy trauma hospital still has not implemented that requirement. Of course there are situations in the ER that scanning meds isn't feasible due to time contraints but that is not always the case. Thanks again for responding to this concern!

Does anyone (or has anyone) ever worked in a facility or just a particular area of a hospital that does not scan medications before administering? I mean: pulling meds from the Pyxis and then going directly to administer to the patient to administer without scanning wristband nor the actual medication in the patient room. Any thoughts about working at a place that does this as an accepted practice on a daily basis? Thanks!

I applied to UT Health Science Center in Houston and UNLV.

I applied to 3 FNP programs and was denied by 2 but accepted to Anderson University out of South Carolina to start August 2017! It's not a very well known program because it's fairly new (as of 2015) but it appears to be a solid school with a good reputation. Moslty online with a mandatory visit each semester. They have the only cadaver lab dedicated to nursing students in the state of South Carolina. I'd say this is exactly what I was looking for in my FNP program! Tuition is even very reasonable! Once the word gets out about this program I'm sure it will be a very popular choice. Anyone out here going to be my classmate for this particular FNP Cohort? -Sammy

Congratulations!!! That's very exciting! Was it via email or a phone call? If I'm lucky we may be classmates..... fingers crossed!

Do you happen to know how many applications they receive vs how many students they accept each year?

Has anyone applied for the Fall 2017 cohort FNP program at UNLV (online)? I haven't read much about the program here so if anyone has any information that they can provide it will be greatly appreciated. My application is complete and I'm just in waiting mode.......I wonder when they begin sending out acceptance letters? Good luck to everyone in all their educational and career endeavors. Sammy