Simmons FNP Sept 2017

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Beyond excited to start my journey of becoming a FNP at Simmons College this September. I have to take the Biology Bridge Course which I'll take in May. Has anyone applied for this cohort, or plan to apply? Accepted? Goodluck to all.

Hello everyone! Today, I accepted my offer to Simmons FNP Fall 2017 in the part time cohort. I'm very excited and feel so relieved now that I'm settled on a school. I joined the FB group and look forward to meeting all if you in virtual class.

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Congrats to you

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Hey,

I was accepted this morning for September cohort of FNP online. I am excited, but nervous too. I also have to do the bridge biology, but the admissions counselor said it isn't your "average" biology course but a good "refresher" to get started in graduate FNP classes. Statistics is something I have to do too. Overall, I'm excited. Looking forward to getting to know everyone.

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Recent Simmons FNP grad here stumbled upon this while looking for some board cert tips and thought I'd chime in. First of all congrats on getting in to you all and furthering your career. I start by saying this program is what you make of it, and how much time you have to put into it.

I would ballpark about half of the program is spent writing papers, research, and other non-clinical stuff which I personally hated. You will have to learn to write in meticulously perfect APA format, or you won't make it far. The last 3 semesters will be your toughest which consist of your clinical rotations, and clinical courses. Just when you think you have finished all the tedious paperwork stuff, it gets even more tedious now. You have to write 8-10 typhon logs per clinical shift, 1 long SOAP note every week, and somewhat random papers (projects) thrown in per semester. I personally did not really find the live sessions the last 3 semesters particularly useful since instead of going over content you were thrown into a group and just present a case study on a disease process, so basically writing a SOAP note with a group every live session. Due to recent program changes you are not allowed to review your exams/seeing what you got wrong, I believe it had to do with people cheating and sharing exams. Do not get your hopes up when you are told exam questions are reviewed and dropped depending on the validity of the question, from my experience questions are very rarely dropped. They will tell you at the start not to arrange your own clinical rotations, I would highly suggest begin networking and getting ahead of that entire process! I have talked to fellow students you have to travel ridiculous amounts to different states for their rotations. If I recall correctly they can arrange clinical sites up to 2 hours away / 100 mile radius. This almost happened to me, luckily I just went ahead and found my own preceptor and got her approved. Certain courses I saw many people dropping out on were assessment and pharmacology, so put your time into them or you will pay dearly. Judging by how many courses were offered my last semester and typically has 5-7 students each so I estimate about 30-40 of us passed the program from about the 100 that I started with.

Well those were the negatives I found of the program. Major positives were that without being in an online program I doubt I would have been able to juggle fulltime work, family and school. Live sessions are at a scheduled time and attendance is typically mandatory, but you save a ton of time when you can just hop on your computer in your pajamas. Towards the end of the program it will feel like your teaching yourself the material, I personally didn't mind. Your publication research paper is done with a group, I have met students from other programs which have had to do it individually and much lengthier.

Overall this program is what you make of it, there isn't much hand holding here. It literally is survival of the fittest. Time management will be your key to success here, and knowing how to study.

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I just applied to Simmons 2 weeks ago for the Sept '17 Cohort. Does anyone know how they notify you of acceptance? I'm definitely starting to hit that nervous stage where the longer it takes the more it makes me think I've been rejected. My application was strong and it's the very best I could have done. My references were pretty good too. Can anyone tell me how you knew you've been accepted and what the next steps were that you had to do? Congrats to all those who've been accepted. Cheers!!

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I got a phone call from my enrollment counselor then an email later that night. The enrollment fee had to be paid next... $650 corfirming your intent to enroll...goes toward your first term.

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Thank you LovelyRN757. That was very helpful! Again congrats to you!

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My application is rejected. Any suggestion in applying to different college for FNP program?

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Did they give u feedback on why it was rejected? You can reapply for November if they give u an idea of your deficeincies?

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ooops

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I am weighing it against another school. I have been looking at reviews and seeing them as mixed. Also, does the program look like it is manageable while working? I'm really leaning towards this school, but it is more expensive.

what do you all think?

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I have applied to Simmons this week and am waiting to hear if I'm accepted. I graduated 9 years ago with my ADN, so I'm hoping my years of experience will help me. My advisor said hopefully there will be an answer within the next week or two. I know this program is on the top of my list because of the live format classes. Congrats to all who have been accepted!

Did anyone apply anywhere else?

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