University of South Alabama DNP Fall 2021

[TinyNurse18]

Hello there! I just wanted to start this thread to see if there were any people applying to USA for next fall for their nurse practitioner program? I am applying to the BSN to DNP-Neonatal Nurse Practitioner program. Anyone know how the current pandemic might affect the application process? Thank you all in advanced, looking forward to hearing from you all and starting this journey. Also, I am currently based in FL, anyone else from out of state care to share their experiences with this program being online and all? How was it finding a clinical site and preceptor?

[R.stuart11, BSN, RN]

Request sent!! Also, all of my contact from USA has been from Brea, just Fyi. But I answered the question as Jennifer because you said that was the answer ?

[TwiliRN, BSN, MSN, RN, APRN]

Thank you for letting me know. I actually sent you a message through facebook as well. Please make sure to agree to the group rules so I can add you as a moderator ? I'll edit the response answers to include Brea as well so it doesn't have to be written in.

[rn32224123]

Congrats to everyone! For those of you who got in/are waiting to hear back, what was your GPA? I'm concerned about mine.

[R.stuart11, BSN, RN]

22 minutes ago, rn32224123 said:

Congrats to everyone! For those of you who got in/are waiting to hear back, what was your GPA? I'm concerned about mine.

My pre requisites GPA was a 3.4 and my nursing GPA was a 4.0

[TwiliRN, BSN, MSN, RN, APRN]

3.8 prereqs and 3.9 nursing

[TexasBSN.RN]

I am just making sure I did not miss out on an email this morning.  For those of you who got an email yesterday saying "You will be receiving the second acceptance email tomorrow morning and letters will be sent by the end of next week"  Has anyone gotten this second email this morning?  

[TwiliRN, BSN, MSN, RN, APRN]

Just woke up but nothing yet. 

[TexasBSN.RN]

1 minute ago, TwiliRN said:

Just woke up but nothing yet. 

Thank goodness!  LOL

[TwiliRN, BSN, MSN, RN, APRN]

Just got it ❤️❤️❤️

[TexasBSN.RN]

10 minutes ago, TwiliRN said:

Just got it ❤️❤️❤️

Me too!  Yay!  

[TexasBSN.RN]

When they say "medical records" , do you think it is just a physical and immunizations?

Update: I just found this info in the email.  LOL 

[TwiliRN, BSN, MSN, RN, APRN]

On 3/22/2021 at 2:15 PM, tlynn11 said:

Has anyone heard anything else, such as when the online orientation will be? I had a trip planned in September I'm now trying to reschedule. We had planned it before I applied to grad school. Hoping to reschedule for the Summer before all of this starts. I'm also going to be working full time, school full time... and my kiddo will be 5 when the program starts. We can do it!!

I might have some good news for you. Acceptance packet emails went out this morning and I found this gold nugget in there. Please confirm with the college before making your final plans, but you might  not have to reschedule? 
"Statement of New Student Orientation

Students accepted into the dnp programs will attend the New Student Orientation. The New Student Orientation is located on USAOnline as a Virtual Orientation Site (VOS). The VOS will open on July 19, 2021 and close on August 13, 2021. This is a required orientation for all new students.
The Course Coordinators will provide a separate specialty specific orientation after the beginning of the semester. Please watch your jagmail account for more details on the specialty orientation."

Hope this helps. I'll post it in the facebook group too.