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Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Anyone else going for psych?

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Same here! Got an interview on October 25th. I live in Texas though. Do they do phone/skype interviews? Do you think that would hurt my chances?

Hey guys, nice to meet some other UAB AMNP applicants! I'm 28 and live in Houston, TX and graduated with my bachelors in Biomedical Science from Texas A&M in 2010. Ultimately will be going for PMHNP. Worried about my chances for this program. Here are some stats: Cumulative undergrad GPA: 3.72 UAB AMNP Pre-Req GPA: ~3.8 Medical experience: Active EMT throughout college, international medical mission trips in South America, was pre-med during college and completed academic internships at medical schools (Baylor College of Medicine and UTMB SOM) and rotated/volunteered in various departments at Texas Children's Hospital and John Sealy Hospital along with numerous affiliated clinics for the clinical portion of these internships. Also did volunteer ER clinical research and a neuropsychology research internship at Emory University. Have volunteered in departments such as the ER, internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, pathology, plastic surgery, etc. Now for the past two years I have been working full-time as a Psychiatric Technician/Behavorial Health Associate in the nursing department at a psychiatric hospital in Houston, mainly on the chemical dependency, adolescent, and psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU). I also act as a preceptor/trainer for corporate to train staff at newly opened company hospitals around the US and am the hospitals CPR/CPI Instructor. Other experience: College tutor on and off for many years, worked in construction (supervisory and administrative/management positions) for a couple years, worked in Seattle for a company subcontracted out by the FDA to perform pre-clinical and phase I clinical trials for experimental pharmaceuticals for three years, and also worked in the oil field in Houston as a Core Analyst before getting back into the medical field at the psych hospital. I am extremely passionate about Psychiatry and the mental health field in general and truly hope to establish myself as a Psych NP and become a leader and agent of change in the field, whether through clinical work or as leadership/management of a psych facility in the future. Also interested in someday teaching university-level students. In my UAB AMNP essay, I had to take up quite a bit of space explaining why I ultimately declined acceptance to medical school many years ago and how I instead chose advanced practice nursing as my professional goal. This was difficult due to the 500 word limit on the essay. I just hope I conveyed everything I needed to! So what do y'all think my chances are? I am only applying to two direct entry MSN/NP programs (UAB and Ohio State), but I really have my heart set on UAB. I submitted everything on 08/06/16 but I never received the recent informational email everyone is talking about. So I emailed the program yesterday and asked if everything in my application was complete/submitted and she said yes all is complete and my file is pending committee review around mid-October. That is all the information I received.

Hey guys. I've got some questions for y'all after recently deciding on nursing after much deliberation. I graduated with my bachelors in Biomedical Science in 2010 from Texas A&M Corpus Christi where I was under the pre-medical track. So I've done the whole gamut of volunteer work, research, organizations, medical internships at UTMB and Baylor College of Medicine, etc. My GPA is roughly a 3.7 overall and 3.6 science. Last year I worked in Seattle for the Anatomic Pathology department at a pre-clinical drug testing facility and this year I am back in Houston working in a Petrophysics lab in the oil field. After college I decided becoming a doctor was not for me (due to lifestyle reasons) so I went back and forth between PA, NP or pharmacy for the longest time while holding a range of jobs in different fields just to get by. My ultimate goal is to becoming a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner after seeing their true scope of practice and lifestyle. I am still learning a great deal about the nursing field in general; trying to compile all of my degree options. The hard part is, I am completely unsure on which direction to take. Since I already hold a bachelor's degree and eventually want to become an NP, I took notice of the direct entry NP programs for degree holders. But I have also read they are extremely competitive to get into. Also there only seems to be one in Texas, at UT-Austin. Although I'd definitely be willing to go out of state. I'm looking to go back to school full-time within one or two years and complete the RN to MSN in the shortest amount of time that I can. My question is, what would be a good option for me? An accelerated BSN program? A direct entry MSN program (assuming I can even get in)? What about an ADN? Are there any NP programs out there that are ADN to MSN? Overall I am just looking for any advice or guidance I can get on this subject matter. Thank you.