Yale GEPN 2023

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Hello everyone! This thread is for folks applying to Yale's GEPN program for the fall 2023 start.

Feel free to introduce yourself, ask questions and offer guidance and support to other candidates. Please be respectful and kind and remember that this is a long, exhausting, expensive, stressful journey for lots of people. Let's do our best to uplift and help each other. Good luck!

And YES, MANY schools are transitioning to DNP. I was going to apply to SUNY Stony Brook on Long Island but they couldn't even tell me if they were this year but I decided I didn't want to waste my time not knowing and because going directly from nursing to midwifery school, adding one more year seems like torture. Frontier has the option to add on DNP fairly quickly if I do eventually want to do that. 

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Yeah there's a statement here: https://www.nonpf.org/news/400012/NONPF-DNP-Statement-May-2018.htm that says that all direct-entry nursing programs will be required to transition to DE-DNP starting in 2025. I am not sure if this actually makes a difference in terms of all NPs needing to have DNP. I am slightly concerned about this but I think that we will either be grandfathered in, or, it won't matter because it is addressing the programs not the students (at least in my interpretation)

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potentialpmhnp said:

Yeah there's a statement here: https://www.nonpf.org/news/400012/NONPF-DNP-Statement-May-2018.htm that says that all direct-entry nursing programs will be required to transition to DE-DNP starting in 2025. I am not sure if this actually makes a difference in terms of all NPs needing to have DNP. I am slightly concerned about this but I think that we will either be grandfathered in, or, it won't matter because it is addressing the programs not the students (at least in my interpretation)

I'm not sure I read that statement as a requirement, rather more of a goal. Since it was written in 2018, it'd be interesting to see where things stand now. I don't believe it is a requirement, outside of CRNA programs. And generally, anyone practicing would be grandfathered in, if the transition from other disciplines is any indication. 

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Yeah I've seen that announcement and I find it SO problematic, especially right now. Do they REALLY need to put an extra barrier to practice (time, money, etc.)? Now? When nursing is at epidemic levels and we don't have enough providers in general? Especially mental health and maternity. Like holy ***, how blind can they be!? Are master's prepared advance practice nurses really not competent/safe enough? This is ESPECIALLY frustrating concerning midwifery, where the rest of the world is mostly a direct entry 3-4 undergraduate degree and whadayaknow, they have better outcomes. We need more APRNs (especially midwives). This will slow halt this and will continue to perpetuate racial inequities in the career.

*sorry not sorry* ?

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Specializes in Women's health.

Hi folks,

I applied for the WH track and had an interview (that I honestly felt not great about but I'm probably overthinking it) and am anxiously waiting for an email from Yale because it's my first choice! I got into the UPenn WH track program but it's a close second choice. I wish I had found this message board months ago because I have been so anxious and had so many questions about this entire application process. 

Concerning the DNP question, this has been on my mind too. I work at Planned Parenthood at a couple clinics, and my clinicians are mostly nurse practitioners (DNPs and ARNPs) and I interviewed like seven of them about this very question. They all really didn't think this will actually happen at all (let alone in 2025). They said there's been talk of requiring DNP certification since 2004, but the AACN has done little to actually move this forward. They also said they believe ARNPs would be grandfathered in if the requirement actually becomes a thing within the next decade. Considering the current state of our wildly dysfunctional healthcare system it seems unlikely the requirement will change (it would also be insulting and frankly, dangerous). However, that's just the impression I've gotten from my small sample pool of nurse practitioners so who knows!

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So anxious and scary....I don't think I can compete with other candidates since my bedside nursing experiences is very limited!

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@FutureFNP2023 you never know what they're looking for! you got the interview so, rest assured at least that they were interested in you. but yes, it is just an anxious waiting game (over soon enough).

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Thanks!!  I was interviewed by a couple of schools and ended up with a rejection ? LOL...Whatever the outcome, I'm mentally prepared for it!

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Ooof. Sorry to hear that. I am mentally preparing for either. I had a dream, well, nightmare, that I got an acceptance letter (in the mail, ha) but then my husband noticed it was to someone else with a different birthday. ?

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LOL that sux...but this time its reality...an acceptance letter with your name on it!!

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FutureFNP2023 said:

So anxious and scary....I don't think I can compete with other candidates since my bedside nursing experiences is very limited!

Since this is the GEPN program, most candidate have no bedside nursing experience. They may have some healthcare experience, but likely not in nursing per se.

MidwifeLife1224 said:

Ooof. Sorry to hear that. I am mentally preparing for either. I had a dream, well, nightmare, that I got an acceptance letter (in the mail, ha) but then my husband noticed it was to someone else with a different birthday. ?

I wonder why Yale is so far behind the other programs who have sent out decisions already, some over a month ago.

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I'm applying to the RN-MSN program...so I'm competing against other nurses with over 15 years of experiences ?

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