Would you recommend National University Post-MSN PMHNP program?

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Looking for feedback on those who may have attended this school for their postgraduate pmhnp cert.

What was your experience? Would you recommend or not, and why?

Thank you

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Are you in the program yet? I am about to apply...

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On 4/25/2020 at 5:21 PM, delsol7 said:

Are you in the program yet? I am about to apply...

No, ended up applying for and getting into Wilkes

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1 hour ago, ToFNPandBeyond said:

No, ended up applying for and getting into Wilkes

How is Wilkes?

Tons of BS essays? or reasonable assignments?

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Specializes in Emergency Medicine.

I am only my last semester at National, I live here in Southern California, one of the biggest reasons I chose this school because it was in my State. I had applied to University of Cincinnati, got in but had to go a few times to Ohio and traveling was hard for me at the time. So I chose National.

National was about a 9 month program post FNP. Mostly online, you do have to go to an OSCE once per semester. Overall I liked it. Not much face to face teaching more like your teaching yourself. I have always felt school is what you put in. If your willing to put in the work I think its a good school for psych. PM for more questions.

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15 minutes ago, EDNP100x said:

I am only my last semester at National, I live here in Southern California, one of the biggest reasons I chose this school because it was in my State. I had applied to University of Cincinnati, got in but had to go a few times to Ohio and traveling was hard for me at the time. So I chose National.

National was about a 9 month program post FNP. Mostly online, you do have to go to an OSCE once per semester. Overall I liked it. Not much face to face teaching more like your teaching yourself. I have always felt school is what you put in. If your willing to put in the work I think its a good school for psych. PM for more questions.

I wanted to send you PM but somehow the site is not letting me send any PM.

I heard from people that quite a number of employers are specifically asking for new hires who didn't attend online school but traditional schools. That alarmed me and thought of going to APU instead.

How is the workload in NU? Tons of BS essays? How are tests like?

I live in Brea so I don't mind driving do SD. It's just that I am more concerned about the quality of education. I just completed an online FNP program and... it was not hard but I felt wasting on unnecessary BS essays and assignments to fill up "study" time. Simply "busy" work rather than really learning anything from the program.

I really appreciate your feedback. =]

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Specializes in Emergency Medicine.

I went to face to face FNP school, and so far I like online better. Clinical is where you learn most of the stuff. I have a psych NP job already and not even done! I wouldn’t worry about which school right now. Psych is in demand. Tests are not bad, they go with what your reading and for boards. I personally like it. I precept for APU FNP students and that school has a LOT of BS work. For NU I turn in a lot of soap notes and papers. Psych is way more interesting to me then family practice.

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7 hours ago, EDNP100x said:

I went to face to face FNP school, and so far I like online better. Clinical is where you learn most of the stuff. I have a psych NP job already and not even done! I wouldn’t worry about which school right now. Psych is in demand. Tests are not bad, they go with what your reading and for boards. I personally like it. I precept for APU FNP students and that school has a LOT of BS work. For NU I turn in a lot of soap notes and papers. Psych is way more interesting to me then family practice.

Yeah. I think many FNP schools either online or offline schools have a lot of BS work as I just had online FNP school. haha.

I have someone locally and she is currently attending APU in the last term. She told me that she only goes to school once a week and only wrote 3~4 papers so far throughout the entire program. According to her, APU also suggests clinical placements. Some negative that I see is that the program is 1.5 years and next term does not start until next Spring... NU starts this fall and only 9 months.

My gosh.. life is full of choices...

Would you mind sharing me one of the class syllabi?

Thank you so much for your time! =]

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Hello this is not related to this post but I am an applicant to the FNP for the following Fall and I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking the time to create the survival kit. I will be reading your guide probably on the daily basis. I am a full time float nurse with small children. Wish me luck. ?

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Does anyone know if National provides preceptors? 

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please disregard last post. I saw that you went to Wilkes instead. Thanks! 

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@delsol7 hi! Did you end up going to NU for pmhnp ?

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