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Hi Fedupwithwilkes, I was responding to the user jennifer2021 who posted the original post and only had this one post. Since I had a different experience including the learning platform it seemed to warrant my post. I'm not sure if you are the same user with a different username, but I felt the way it was written (the original post) just seemed sketchy and thought I'd post about what I felt were inaccuracies or the different experience I've had. I said that I haven't started clinicals yet but I definitely am not new to the program. But this is why I definitely withhold making my opinion public in general on social media, its never worth it to me afterwards. But no, ha, I'm definitely not a paid Wilkes rep and I am not saying they are without their flaws. But for the price (the lowest one in my thorough research) for the experience I've had, I do feel justified in at least trying to highlight the positive differences I've experienced from Jennifer2021. I'm sorry you've had a very negative experience there but in my research of PMHNP programs that are available online, Wilkes is just not (to me) how she made it sound and because certain online schools do some very aggressive marketing, it's not out of the realm of possibility that a post like the original could be due to that, I've seen it with other businesses and it's not as if we don't see how many online programs are run more like profit churners than reputable educators. But I'm sorry for offending you either way and I do take your comments about my nursing philosophy seriously as I strive to always uphold the core values of our chosen profession.

Hi, I have to say somewhat pessimistically that this account only has one post and a very generic name, and as a current PMHNP student at Wilkes, I have some troubling thoughts about this "student"'s comments. Namely, they are not even accurate so I have to comment. So I will at least in my few minutes of time clear up some of the inaccuracies. The online learning platform has never been the one mentioned by this user, but instead this one called Desire2Learn or just Live is what I have seen it called and what I have called it (or D2L sometimes). It is a good platform and I have had the same online experience with it as I have had with any other online learning tool. I will say there were no lectures until I got further in the program, the last several classes I have had actual lectures either in the form of recorded videos or in interactive video sessions. The citations are also not outdated as this person states, the oldest I have seen is about 5 years old and most of the time they are the most recent book editions, etc. I have had no problems with the staff or getting in touch either. They email me back the same day typically and even though this has been an online program I have had an equivocal experience with administration as I did when I was getting my Bachelor's at TCNJ as an on-campus student. I am in the middle of completing my requirements for clinical placements so I can't speak to that part yet except to say they have been helpful thus far (I have emailed them several times and have gotten replies the same or the next day). I have called multiple departments multiple times over the length of my program without any of the issues this user talks about. I have never had anyone be nasty or rude, and they have always helped me in whatever I need. I am not a paid rep I promise! And the school definitely isn't perfect but it DOES NOT feel like a "degree mill" it feels like a brick and mortar school with an online masters component which almost every university has these days. I will know more if I am not placed at a clinical site and then I will have something more negative to say, but at this time I have the feeling from the plethora of inaccurate info this person is saying that unfortunately this user is not an actual student but a marketing person from an online school that is actually more of a degree mill. I was so aggressively marketed to by some schools when I was researching PMHNP programs that it was a complete turn-of and it was hands-down the worst with Walden, so I can't help but think this user might just be a Walden employee! It wouldn't shock me. I just had to add my two cents because it really doesn't feel fair to Wilkes to have this inaccurate info out there.

Hi everyone in this cohort! (Fall 2020 Wilkes PMHNP program) --- I am hoping to get a leg up as much as I can before starting this program in 2021. Can anyone let me know the textbooks or reading assigned for the first courses? I also would love to start the advanced psychopharmacology text if anyone knows which one(s) Wilkes is using. Thanks!

Following as I am very much considering Regis vs Wilkes and I am actively trying to figure out the clinical placement "guarantee" myself!

Heavily considering this program compared to some others, following this thread as well...

Hi all, I am hoping to just get some feedback and kind of "think out loud" about my situation. I am a brand new nurse and I have started a grad-nurse program at a local hospital. I was always interested in neuro and also psychiatric nursing, and have been placed in a neuro progressive care unit. Unfortunately, the neuro part has turned out to be more of a rarity. It is really a step-down unit in general. Tele-unit. Intermediate care unit...you get the idea. I don't really have a problem with that except that I am disappointed. I do not normally complain and I feel that as a new nurse I need to just suck it up in most ways, and I am a super hard worker. I push myself. But in this situation, I feel like I am pushing myself too hard...over the edge. I am starting to feel like when my orientation is over in about a month, I will definitely not be able to handle the constant admits and discharges, being flexed up to 5 patients on a regular basis, and all of the head-spinning that all that entails. I have already started to blank out when I am trying to remember what to do because there is just too much, my brain is fatigued, and I am physically and mentally unable to keep up. I have been so busy that I have been lucky in each 13-15 hour shift to get 1 bathroom break. I have gone without a bathroom break all day most days, and I am so busy that I don't even realize that I have not gone all day. I am just nervous for my patients when I am completely on my own. All this leads me to say that I NEED to talk to my manager about what to do. On one hand, I think they will just fire me if I say this to them. On the other hand, I feel like they are a huge hospital with 5 locations, all sorts of departments, and they really need BSN-trained nurses which I am. I am confident in my assessment skills, my patient advocacy and my patient education skills. I have a good background in pharmacy before going to nursing school so meds are not as hard for me as most grads. Of course so many things are new to me, and I am slower than seasoned nurses at most things. In order to be safe I need to be given a chance to not be speed-nursing all day, every shift. I am a valuable asset as a new nurse...just not in a flexed-to-5 tele unit in a high-turnover rate unit. I need them to give me a different unit. How do I not get fired, but also get out of this unit?? Can anyone here give me some concrete ideas of what to say or do? Thank you so much in advance!

Thank you so much HeySis!!! Your information is invaluable. The details are so great, it was really what I was hoping for but didn't think I would get! Thanks again, it helps me more than you know :)

I am a new nurse applying to a nurse residency program which has openings in the following units: Women and Children, Clinical Decision Unit, Stepdown, Ortho, ER, ICU, OR Oncology, and Outpatient Surgery Center, Post Anesthesia Care Unit I am curious mainly about what the actual work is like in the OR Oncology, PACU, and CDU, as the rest I have either had a clinical experience in and am considering (like ICU) or know for sure are not for me (like Women/Children). Any insight into what life is like as a nurse in these units would be OH SO APPRECIATED! Thank you!

@NurseAlia2Be, I don't have enough topic posts to pm you, but I am hoping to contact you since I know you and I are in the same boat in regards to starting in the Fall at the ABQ campus. I am having quite a time trying to stay on top of everything necessary by the deadlines and I am in touch with our admissions rep, but well....there are some dead-end links and whatnot I am being sent to work with. I would like to keep in touch with you so we can share our information, if thats cool with you! Please email me at [email protected]

Congratulations!! I got accepted to the ABQ campus too!! I am so excited!

I really am hoping that the poster Maycation was confusing AT Stills with ABQ location....please let us know Maycation what you heard!

Has anyone heard yet about when the ABQ hopefuls will be let known their acceptance or denial?

Has anyone heard yet about when the ABQ hopefuls will be let known their acceptance or denial?

I truly hope so too!!

Hi cc02, I think I got an email because it was an email sent by the ABQ location advisor to the ABQ hopefuls.