UIC's GEP Fall 2014

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Just looking to see if anyone else out there has applied to UIC's GEP for Fall 2014. I just finished my application.

I have an undergraduate degree (1994) from Iowa State in Art & Design and a Master's degree (1996) from UIC in Art Therapy. Hopefully my alumni status will increase my chances.

I live in the western suburbs of Chicago and, if accepted, will commute.

How about you?

sara

Hi Everyone, in case you were wondering, we'd get 1,080 clinical hours in the GEP program :)

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Has anyone started their certifiedprofile account and looked into their immunizations?

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Has anyone started their certifiedprofile account and looked into their immunizations?

no but I am going to ASAP!!!

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The website is pretty user friendly. Does anyone recommend somewhere to complete CPR certification? I'm looking for the cheapest possible.

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Hi everyone!

Just came across this thread! I've been accepted into the GEP Program to start this August as well. I currently do research here at UIC and have for the past two years. My family has actually been in the UIC/ Little Italy neighborhood since my grandparents came here from Italy in the 1920's. If anyone has any questions about the neighborhood, feel free to ask! I live here now and have my whole life so I can help. I'm so excited to meet everyone and start this August. Congrats to everyone else getting in, hope the FB group goes up soon! ;)

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I started mine already! It's a long process because I have to get a bunch of stuff from my military records. ugh!! lol

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@dokhtashirazi That's perfect! I think that's the amount of hours you need for those people who are planning on going to DNP.

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Does anyone know the job outlook for new grads from the GEP program? What percentage actually gets employed when finished with the program?

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Hi guys,

I have applied to UIC's program. Can anyone currently in the program talk more about it? Does this program offer the MSN or just MS? Thanks for the help!

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Hi Soni7,

I am in the program. What questions do you have?a

We get an MS in Nursing, which is the same as MSN. The only difference, we've been told, is who confers the degree. At UIC, the graduate college awards us the degree, so it's an MS. (At some other schools, that School of Nursing will award the degree, which will then be an MSN. As for the other programs in Chicago, DePaul awards an MS, Rush awards an MSN. But they are all the same.)

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Thank you for your reply! Can you talk more about the whole layout and structure of the program? Are all clinicals done at UIC hospital? How often do classes meet etc? Does UIC offer programs after to get certifications in like NP?

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Sure thing! We are the first class in this new program and it's only been one semester so we're kind of like guinea pigs, and things may change for the next class. You take your prelicensure courses and your graduate courses at the same time. Most graduate courses are online, which so far, my class resoundingly hates. I think that's the major downside; the online classes are team based learning with students from other campuses in the DNP program, which doesn't lend itself well to group work. Hopefully our feedback may change this in the future though! Our first semester was two online courses and two in-person classes. We had in-person one day a week (9-4). It seems like a light schedule but it gets overwhelming pretty quick; it is an accelerated program after all. I am working, but only 15 hours a week doing admin work and it's still tough some weeks.

It's 7 semesters, you don't start clinicals until the 2nd semester. Next semester we will have class/clinicals 3-4 days per week plus one online class. You can get placed anywhere and you don't get a say until your last semester (don't quote me on that though). You can be placed at UIH, Northwestern, the VA, Stroger, I think MacNeal and Northwest Community (those are in the suburbs). There may be a few other places too. There are five rotations (psych, peds, adult, mental health, community) plus your final advanced generalist rotation.

You get your MS in Nursing, and you're an advanced generalist. Some schools (not in Chicago that I'm aware of) offer a post-MS NP certificate, but UIC only offers NP at the DNP level. The courses we take, however, do carry over to the UIC dnp programs.

The professors we've had for our in person classes are awesome. The people in my cohort are awesome. I'm overall very happy.

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