University of South Alabama dual FNP/ACNP Fall 2019

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Specializes in Surgical Intensive Care.

Hi! I was wondering if anyone out there applied for this program as well? I got my acceptance email from the “Congradapp” waiting on the official letter. Just wanted to extend a happy hello and possibly meet some of the folks that will be in my class ?

-Alex

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Hey! I got my acceptance email for the FNP program as well. I'm just waiting on the official letter too. Hopefully more people will find your thread. I would love to have people to chat with and exchange study ideas with.

-Jasmine

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Specializes in Surgical Intensive Care.

Thanks for the reply and congrats!! ? it’s always nice to have people to study with/bounce ideas off of

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I made us a Facebook group. Just search “University of South Alabama Dual ACGNP/FNP Fall 2019”

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I was accepted to the FNP program for Fall 2019. Congrats everyone!

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I copied and pasted in Facebook trying to find the facebook group. Did anyone else find it?

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Specializes in Hospitalist Medicine.

Congrats on getting accepted. I'm in the Dual Role ACNP/FNP program but started Fall 2018. Gearing up for clinicals in Fall and will be going to campus intensive #1 in July.

Just a few notes for you: every track takes the same 6 classes at the beginning. Your Patho, Pharm, Physical Assessment, EBP/Research, Theory, and Population Health courses will have students from all MSN tracks in them.

Definitely search for your course-specific Facebook groups when you're in Patho, Pharm, etc. Those groups are full of great info. They only allow you to join during your current semester, but the Patho & Pharm groups have been lifesavers with alphabetized study guide indexes and study aids. You'll find each class on FB as UnSoAlNU.### with the ### replaced with your course number. Definitely join those pages once you're registered.

They are pretty mindful about not scheduling exams and papers due in the same week, even with different courses. I felt I had plenty of time to prepare in between assignments.

You will need the ability to convert your papers to PDF. In EBP/Research, you'll have to merge all your research articles with your paper, so you'll need the full version of Adobe to do so.

Make sure you check USA Online often once it's July. You'll have a day-long online orientation. Ours was scheduled to end at 5 pm, but we had technical difficulties with WebEx and didn't get done until nearly 7 pm. Find out the date and make sure you have the day off, as they don't allow make-up sessions.

Exams so far have been open book, open notes. However, you have a short amount of time to take the exam, so if you aren't prepared, you aren't going to be able to "wing it", especially in Pharm.

Beginning Fall 2019, exams will only be available on a particular day for a certain time frame. They used to allow 24 hours in Patho and 48 hours in Pharm to take the exams. A couple of students decided to cheat and discuss exams/quizzes online and the school found out. So, they are cutting down the time window for exams significantly. It's unfortunate a few bad apples ruined it for the rest of us. My clinical didactic course in the fall only has a 2-hour time window to take the exam from 1000-1200. I'm a night shifter so these hours are awful for me. I'm usually sound asleep at that time. Yikes!

Good luck to you all :D

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Hello, I got accepted into the FNP program for Fall 2019 as well! I also tried to find the FB page with no luck. ?

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Strange! Did you search using this forum topic or the name I shared? Here is a link! Hopefully it works!

https://m.facebook.com/groups/2030817513879394?ref=share

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I have also been accepted into the FNP program for Fall 2019! Congrats!

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Hello all, just wanted to contribute to the good ole acceptance praises ?. I too ; was also accepted for the Dual Role DNP for Fall 2019. Big congrats to us all ,and Im definitely looking forward to this journey with you guys . Thanks so much @SopranoKris for all the pertinent information you have provided , it’s definitely much appreciated??

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Hi everyone. Congratulations to all. I also was accepted into the BSN-DNP Dual Role FNP/AGACNP for Fall 2019. Im so excited for this new journey!..

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