Family Nurse Practitioner Virtual Information Session

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So we do have one person registered, but I was like you know what. It's a start. We I emailed it to over like 200 people and then we also shared it on Facebook and Instagram twice. So we've done it on Monday and we did it today on top of emailing and so I'm almost wondering if we don't like redo. Another one 'cause it's so close to Easter, but I forget that people check out.

In Louisiana, like even though we have Friday like they take the roof on the other app.

I really yeah thanks mark we went they plan on Monday not too.

Yeah so I kind of forget so I was like well I'm like at least we get to say you know we've done one and we've got to you know reach one student and II mean it's a start and so we can only go up from here.

OK that sounds good we can do that.

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Yeah and so up here at the Top like where it says control screens you um control slides you will get people to control the slide so it's just like zoom and then you'll be able to click on it and then what I do is I have it locked to where the participant can only see what you click on so that's the way they can't just come in and log in and then just decide to review it themselves and then leave.

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What kind of makes him have to stay to be engaged so?

Yeah absolutely now I won't see the participant right they wouldn't see me.

No, yeah, you won't be able to see him like it'll come up in this chat box. It'll say chat questions, participants and so then that's whenever will know that this person is on there and then they can ask questions. And then I have to approve it. So I just.

And they can't come in and tell exactly 3:00 o'clock, so they can't come into the room before.

OK before that with time.

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Yeah.

I'm sorry kinda goes.

So that's kind of the one other thing, yeah, so well, so now they're able to get in and she also gets a text message an hour before it with the link sent to the text on her phone. So then she'll be able to bring it up on her phone too. So that's kind of something that's nice about slate versus Zoom. Is that they would have to actually download the software to get in, and this one. It just kind of relieves that. Yeah, and so even though there are some other really better functionality's.

Of zoom uhm so it just kind of.

It is just.

Just a different platform everybody everything has its pros and cons.

Open.

Yes, exactly so I was like but I and then we are working on trying to get the applications waived for graduate program so I know that people graduate. We just heard this morning that those were waved and so they said not for graduate as of now. So I'm hoping that soon they'll say, Oh.

You mean the fee or the actual paint like the.

And should be application that application theme.

The actual application.

No, just the fee 'cause there's.

Yeah so.

All the thi OK that's what I was thinking OK yeah well that would be nice OK.

Yeah, and it would be just a little bit more intriguing to them to say Oh well, I can put in, you know, and I don't have to. Not gonna be losing $50.00, so that's something.

Not.

Yes.

Absolutely mind will try put it in and see see.

Absolutely.

I know you know where is better. I mean, at least we're trying. We're trying to promote it or doing something different. Uhm, so thank you for your time. Thank you for everything you put into this. I'm very.

Oh no problem.

I was added only one person and like I said, I think it has to do with it Easter weekend. I don't even think of it.

And so I just kind of think that some people.

Going into yeah 'cause technically tomorrow is Good Friday and then.

Yeah.

And there may be some other well no I don't know I was just thinking this is probably everybody's off so don't matter I was thinking with it being spring.

Yeah yeah.

In their problem it's so close to quitting time for the weekend, and I do.

I know that they just checked out.

Even think of it, I was like I should have not done it, but I was like well.

Yeah.

So.

It's OK we can always do it again how did anesthesia do.

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I work OK.

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They did really good and so that's what we'll probably do. Will probably do like next time. Tell me what day works good for you. For like an 11:00 o'clock. That time seems to be working working well. Yeah, well for people. And then I'm going to do another one next week at 6:00 o'clock for image. And so I'll let you know how that one goes so that you can kind of tell me like how they want to try XY and Z and then we can do it. So 'cause now that I had.

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Everything set up on my stuff. all I have to do is copy and paste and change dates so everything is good.

OK I'm good with an 11 o'clock like.

At work.

OK yeah.

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Yeah, just so you just let me know what day works best for you. Will look at will look at what's in the next couple weeks and then what I think would be really good to do is to add students on here. 'cause I think that we might get a little bit more traction too. If we did like meet the faculty and then had a student panel at the end and then I can give them logins to slight as well and then that way they could talk and they could get to know you.

Anna student panel. So what? Some different options to try to kind of include him?

OK, that sounds good.

It sounds good.

OK.

So well, this person. So Miss Diane. So she is an answer. Hi Diane, thank you for joining us on buying.

My God man.

My name is Heather Lopez. I'm the academic support coordinator, and I'm going to.

But Doctor Bates here introduced herself in and she will be leading the presentation. So at anytime you have a chat box over there. So if you have any questions, please feel free to write any questions in there and then I will read the question and we will both be able to answer it. And so I'll let doctor Bates take it from here.

Awesome thank you, um, so Good afternoon Diane. Uhm I am Alisha, Bates or doctor Bates. I'm currently the director of the family nurse practitioner program at friend. You thank you for being with us this afternoon so that you can hear a little bit about our program.

OK so I click on control slides right OK?

Yes, yeah, and then you'll just click as you move. You'll just click on the slide and it will keep moving.

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Alrighty so we'll start by talking a little bit about our program mission first. Uhm, the mission of Franciscan missionaries of Our Lady Universities. Family Nurse Practitioner program is to advance the skills and knowledge of nurses in preparation for advanced practice. As Franciscan servant leaders in a variety of health care settings, particularly with the focus on Roulin medically underserved settings, alot of our clinicals are actually focused on those areas, so you will find that.

When we place you come in the community, were trying to put you in those rural areas or those medically underserved areas. The program achieves its mission by creating a respectful environment that embraces culture diversity. It emphasizes collaboration, an interprofessional healthcare teams, an it promotes, evidence based healthcare across the lifespan. So in the FNP program, we're actually.

Teaching you how to care for patients all the way from infancy until older adult so.

We currently have about 3 full time faculty members, including myself. As I mentioned, I'm currently the director of the entire program, but then doctor Kristen Marten is our clinical director of education, so she works closely with students as far as trying to find their clinical placements.

And then we also have doctor Leon Gallo. He is one of our full time faculty in the program and then we have doctor Lindsey Mullins. She is part time faculty. She's also the chair of the Gerontology program, so she kind of splits her roles between both and then Miss Valerie Seba is currently our academic support coordinator. So within our program all three of us including doctor Mullins kind of teach the core curriculum.

We do occasionally have a few adjuncts as needed.

So there are three options for the family nurse practitioner program. We have a two and a three year option. Two years considered are full-time program, three years considered part time. They're both 44 credit hours total. So three hour, 3 year would just take a little bit longer to complete it. It's for people that you know want to take a little bit longer. They don't know how their work schedules going to.

Pan out with school work so they're not really in a rush to kind of get through it in those two years.

With both options, you still have to do 600. Practical Bowers usually start to practicum hours the last year of the program. So for the two year program, you'll do your clinical hours that second year in the spring, and then for the three year you'll start at your third year. We do also have simulation with some of our courses, particularly health assessment, where students will come on campus and will do checkoffs, or will practice skills, and that is our 44 hours of.

That time.

We are glad to announce that last year we opened the postmaster certificate program, so this option is for students that already have a Masters degree, say in nursing, education or clinical nurse specialist. It has to be a master's in a nursing program, but they decide that they want to go back and become a family nurse practitioner. They can actually get a PNC, a postmaster certificates, so it's not quite as long since they've already taken some courses.

Prior but, um, there still required to do the 600 clinical hours as well as the lab hours.

Accreditation we are as a University. We are accredited by Saks so that's on a University level and then from a nursing perspective we are accredited by the Accreditation Commission for education and nursing. For short we call it ace and we actually just had a accreditation site visit in February, so we're proud to announce that we have preliminary.

Preliminarily received a credit re accreditation for the next eight years. Although we are still waiting to get our formal report.

As far as admissions into our program, we only accept students in the spring, so we accept in the spring and we graduate in the fall. If you're interested in applying to the program, our deadline for applications is Sept 16. That's kind of our hard deadline every year.

So you would apply by September 16th. Uhm, and then we would do interview shortly after that, and then if you're accepted you would start in the spring of the following year.

So the emission criteria can actually be found on the FM P website. I'm not sure if you had an opportunity to check it out and read through it.

In

Uhm, but I have listed some of our requirements here. Um, we recently just received approval that Jirari is no longer a requirement for our program, so we do need to update the website and remove that. But as far as all of the other admission criteria, you still need to have preferably a GPA of 3.0 or higher minimum of one year of our inexperience, and that's prior to your practicum courses.

So historically we have accepted students that hum just received their Baccalaureate degree and they will actually go and start practicing for a year and then they'll enroll into the three year program. So about time they start their practicum courses, they will have one to two years of nursing experience.

Also have to be BLS certified with current immunizations. We will need all of your transcripts, undergraduate and graduate. Of course you have to have an RN license with a Baccalaureate degree and then three professional letters of recommendation, preferably one from your immediate supervisor and then a personal goal statement. Just kind of explaining what led you to become or desire to become a family nurse practitioner. What's your motivation in your passion?

For this career field.

Air this profession.

As I mentioned just a moment ago, so kind of our important timeline is we start with applications that are due on September 16th and then we do our interviews October and November and then usually like early November, maybe even late November will start sending out denial or acceptance letters.

And then shortly after that it'll be January. An classes are ready to begin, so.

So we all know that there are quite an abundance of nurse practitioner programs across the USA. Lot of 'em are moving to strictly online platforms or if they aren't completely online, a lot of them are hybrid, such as ours, so you may be wondering, you know why? Why do I want to get my education from friend you? What makes us different and I will just say that.

It's it's just who we are. We are a faith based academic community or a smaller school. You actually get to know your faculty members as well as your classmates. You're not living. You know, most of our students are within the Louisiana or surrounding states, so it's not like you're trying to hunt down somebody from across the world.

Art, like I mentioned, our classes are a lot smaller. Our faculty, doctor, Marten. She coordinates all of our preceptors for you. That is definitely a benefit I can tell you just from personal experience trying to find your preceptor can be tough. Some individuals actually have to postpone their graduation or sit out of semester because they cannot secure preceptors for their clinical hours. But we actually kind of take on that task so that you can focus 100% on your.

Your didactics and your clinicals

We also do service learning opportunities.

Obviously, with the current situation, we're not able to do the Baton Rouge free clinic this year, but historically we've done that. Uhm, I was actually working with Louisiana, operate with a collaboration that we were developing where students could actually go into the schools and teach about mental health about substance abuse, just different.

Things that are related to opera believe it or not, so it's kind of a neat collaboration, but there are so many different things that are being offered an in the SMP programme were trying to take advantage of those opportunities and pass those along to the students. We also do a lot of interdisciplinary collaboration with other programs across campus. For example, last year one of our on campus intensives, we actually collaborated with.

Nutrition so the students in the Nutritional Sciences Department and we did a tell a Medison scenario. So it's kind of cool to see how you know from other programs across the University. You can collaborate and communicate and better take care of patients, which is what you'll be doing one day. Once you graduate and become an FNP.

And then we also have universitywide simulation experiences like the disaster day that the University puts on.

And then one thing that I really enjoy about our program is our standardized patients. I personally did not have that in my program, but, um, that's kind of you. I will, I'll say, unique. In a sense, it was unique to me when I first came here and found out that students actually come on campus and you get to Chekov and do some of your skills with actual live patients that come in and portrayed to have certain disease processes, and you're able to communicate with them and assess them and diagnose and treat.

It's it's learning in a safe environment, so I feel like that is a really cool and neat experience.

So that kind of concludes.

My presentation I would I do have some contact information on here. Heathers information is on here. If you have any questions or email or phone number, we also have a Facebook page. You are welcome to look us up on Facebook like our page and then.

Um?

If you are have any other questions like about admissions or criteria that can all be found on our web page.

So there so we have a couple of questions here. Can you see it, Alicia?

OK, I can.

Perfect, so yeah, I'll let you answer those those questions.

OK, thank you for congratulating us. We're very excited. Accreditation can be a very stressful process and we started it almost a year ago. So when they finally came on campus we were We were relieved and also excited. So thank you. Yes there's no GRE that is required so you will not have to worry about that. And then the practicum. So practicum in clinical is basically the same thing. Sometimes you'll hear me say practicum hours, sometimes you're home. You say clinical hours.

But it's the same thing. It's 600 hours that you're required to do by the end of the program, in the way that we have it broken up is.

In the spring of your last last year, the program you'll do. 240 hour's.

And that's an FM P1. And then in the summer you'll do 120. And that's an SMP two. And then in the fall you'll do another 240. And that's an F MP3. So summer I'm sorry spring is usually like a cute and episodic, so usually you go back and urgent care setting.

Or internal Medison Family Madison. The summer is usually Women's Health in Pediatrics and then the fall is usually chronic in complex. So usually internal Medison family Madison.

So.

I hope that answers your questions.

That was perfect.

Awesome.

Well, I'll give Diane just like one more minute here if she has any other questions on here and I and if you have any.

Maybe?

You know questions about going over Tran Scripps or applying to the program. We're also offering virtual one on one appointments, so I could sit with you just like this, and I could help fill out that application or review your transcripts and make sure that you have everything in order to apply to the program. And it's great to hear that we're getting away from the GRE, so that's something that even if you see that on our application right now, because we're in the process of having it removed from the application so it is.

Because its own you you're going to see it still on there, but just know where in the process of getting it taken off.

Yep.

So perfect here we go. Here is another great question.

OK, good.

That is.

Uhm, OK, yes, so I would. That's a great question. I actually want it makes me think.

Uhm, I would say that the majority of our students is probably.

Uhm, between 23 and maybe 32, but we do have a handful. Two that are maybe 32 to I think our oldest student yet was probably in their 40s. Forty 5 ish maybe. So I I do honestly think we have a good blend. It certainly students are going back to school earlier. You know they're graduating with their back loredan there realizing hey I want an advanced degree.

So they may get out and do their one or two years of nursing experience, and then they're going right back to school. So I do feel like the the trends are shifting a little bit and you're finding students are a little bit younger. Coming back to MP school.

But

I still feel like we have quite a few experienced nurses as well.

Absolutely we do.

We need we need people your age to come in there to help them with a lot of experience. So that's really big. That's a lot.

Yeah, you know what will take it back. We may have a 50 year old now. I'm thinking about her now.

No, with class that's coming behind us is going to be a pretty decent size class, so it's got a great mix of age age breakdowns in there so.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

And even on campus like you'll, you'll see other programs in you will not be the oldest because like peas are really great example of a second career, and so that's a really big variety and their average age is like 27. So like likely she was saying like you'll see younger ones. But then you also see a couple of the older ones who.

Trickle in.

And they.

And don't fret about online learning. I mean certainly it can be a transition if you're not used to it. But once you we do a lot of orientation for students. If you have questions, we have a 24 hour support line. Like I said, the faculty are on campus. Obviously. Right now we're not, but but we're usually there Monday through Friday 8:00 to 5:00. So if you have any difficulties, questions you can actually come.

Up to the nursing building and speak with us, we can help you whatever needs to be done. Well, we'll get it done so.

Yes.

And I was like, oh, let's see here quite another one from her coming on here.

Yeah.

Absolutely yeah, that's the beauty. The small environment, yeah?

And the platform.

So I will say our first cohort that we graduated. I think there was 13 and then our second are both of our cohorts were 1313 graduates, so that's pretty small compared to some of the other schools like USA or.

You LL? I mean, they're probably graduating on average 40.

Now in my class we had like 35.

So that was back in 2012, so.

In traveling from Metairie, I mean, I think that you see quite a few people who end up traveling to your program.

Yes, we do, and you're not required to come on campus a whole lot, especially the first couple of semesters in the beginning. When you're taking your foundational courses like Patho Pharmacology Research, all of those are pretty much on line completely, but once you start your health assessment in your clinical courses at that point, then we usually have you come on campus, maybe 2 to three times within that semester, and we are mindful of schedules, so we try to give your dates ahead of time.

So that you can kind of play in them around your work schedule and your life schedule and everything else that's going on so.

And then you also use Moodle.

Believe it or not, a lot of students enjoy the on campus time. You know, just to be able to interact and see their peers and learn from each other so.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And Moodle is the platform that they use in its so user friendly and so even though you've been out of school for a while, hopping into Moodle is. I mean it. It can seem kind of overbearing at first, but it's so user friendly and it's just a really great way to access in, have everything delivered to you. So I highly recommend it and it makes it really, really nice for learning.

Absolutely.

And once you learn the platform, it's it's pretty easy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Perfect, alright, well thank you so much, Diane, and thank you doctor Bates that was fantastic.

You're very welcome anytime. Thank you for UM. Logging on and listening to me talk this afternoon. And if you have anymore questions.

Mrs are people interrupting Mr. Nice to see faces.

I know.

If you have any other questions, just um, other email, Heather or myself.

We're glad that you enjoyed the the information in you. I mean it would be.

Sounds like you would do good and you could have some experience, so we look forward to helping you along with the process.

Yes, ma'am.

Power.

All right ladies will again thank you both very much and I hope that you both have a happy Easter and stay safe and will be chatting with you all soon.

You know?

OK, thank you Heather, have a good one. Happy Easter Diane.

I don't really know what to click though. Just click on break.

And just a big red X.

OK.