UMSON CNL Applicants for Spring 2014

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Hi all,

I am starting this thread for anyone who has applied for UMSON spring 2014 CNL class. I thought this would be a good place for us all to get to know each other and keep everyone updated on our status. Please share your thoughts, anxieties, hopes and goals for applying to this program. I am particularly interested in knowing what attracted you to this program as opposed to traditional BSN or RN. Also, please share your background? Also, current students please feel free to add any insight to enlighten us all.

Little about me, my undergraduate degree was in Political Science & Philosophy. I worked in the field of banking for seven years and then as an office manager for a radiology facility for 5.5 years. Working in healthcare field I was exposed to every aspect of healthcare management and administration, but I lacked the clinical background. I am gravitating towards family practice and very interested in providing primary care services. I want to work with the underserved populations. I like the CNL program because it is a master's level program which will give me a chance to elevate my education while giving me the hands on training to be a nurse.

Looking forward to getting to know you all. If you find this thread please introduce yourselves and share a little something about yourself :)

cheers,

Hey Wildflower13,

I live 45 minutes from Germantown :(

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I would very much like to know our status tomorrow.

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Still waiting...Wildflower I have the intention of going to the financial aid office and applying for any institutional scholarships. Of course the FAFSA is required for any federal aid. I will be applying for graduate loans through the federal government. Beyond that there are a lot of scholarships out there that you can apply to once already enrolled. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing has a lot of great resources including a Graduate Nursing Association that you can join that gives you access to podcasts on contemporary issues in nursing. Here is the link for scholarship resources.

American Association of Colleges of Nursing | Student Scholarship Programs

In the meantime did anyone else read about the camel to human virus leap? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-mers-virus-found-in-patients-pet-camel.html?_r=0

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NurseCrespoEM, thanks for sharing. I called the financial aid office and I was told that unless admitted, they could not help me. They told me to call back once i have been admitted to find out my financial aid options.

I am just worried, that we are already into the the third week of November and we still don't know about our admission status :( Were you the one who said that you deferred admission to Spring 14?

Thanks for sharing the article.

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Wildflower13-I was NOT the one with a deferred admission to Spring 2014 already. I was just reading your background and I wanted to share with you that I, too, was a Philosophy major. I focused on non-western political science theory from the middle east in the medieval period. I went to St. John's for 2.5 years in Annapolis, and then graduated from UMD College Park. I had the desire to study old Arabic morificecripts in Beirut. I even met the woman who I wanted to work with at St. Josef's in Beirut through graduate classes I took at UMD with the main translator of both Rousseau and Averroes. I minored in Arabic in the same year they developed the Arabic minor there, 2008. And after travelling to Egypt in 2009 and studying there, I was doing painstaking translations of handwritten Arabic with a colleague right after graduation. I was on this entirely academic career track...But I was always an L.M.T. doing massage work to get through school, and my main fascination has always been health care. I have been a therapist for almost 10 years. So.....After much thought, I decided that would like to be a nurse now. Its pretty simple. I like working with people and listening to them and I like analyzing health problems as well as running around taking care of everything. So...That's me. I've got a family at 35. I don't want any more kids either. I just want to be a kick-ass nurse and step up my caring career a notch. I figure there will be plenty of work in the middle east in health care in the coming years and Arabic will be useful as well as having a cultural competency there. But I imagine you have a lot of experiences that I don't already since you've worked in radiology and in the patient-care system. I've tried to get some more health-care experience by volunteering at Shepherd's clinic as an L.M.T. working with patients coming in without insurance. I think I'll adapt well to a hospital environment, however, because I like institutions and rules, but your work has prepared you for the business and logistics of a unit. I can see why you are an excellent candidate to learn nursing. I'm so used to walking in to a room with a person who needs caring touch and understanding how to treat them from a soft-tissue perspective. I think we'd be able to learn from each other as students together. Anyway, I just hope we both get accepted. -Em

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NurseCrespoEM you have an impressive background. You have definitely been off the beaten path on quite an adventure of your own. Arabic is a difficult language to learn if is not already your first. I don't speak it but understand quite a lot (my best friend is Egyptian). We can definitely learn a lot from each other. I think you will do great as a nurse. I hope you we get in. Good luck to all of us :)

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Guys I got into the program check your online status!!!!

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she called!! Im in!!!

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I heard that I was accepted into the UMD Spring CNL program at 9:38am and let me tell you Nicole Willhide's voice was the sweetest sound! Congratulations to those who already heard the good news. This will be something exciting to share with family at Thanksgiving. Right? Yay!!

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I got in as well!!!!!! I just checked my status!

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Wahhhooooooo!!! Guys I'm creating a face book group come find it:p

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Im in!! So so happy! Im finding the fb page now!

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