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• If you have drive If you have drive and push to navigate at all yourself then you have no problems. Thing is you shouldn’t pay that much for school and have no significant guidance or assistance. - Alum
• Walden University NP Informative professors, good balance of assignments. You have to find your own preceptors and there was no help with that. It was difficult at times. Overall a good program. - Alum
• Clinical challenges The quality of the first part of the education was ok. What got challenging is when we got into the harder courses and there was less flexibility….which was frustrating for a program that bills itself as flexible for working adults. Instructors were always available by email. But also expected their students to be as readily available as they were. For example: I was working a day/night rotation for one of my clinicals. I was flipping back to a day schedule so I could work, and received a notification from her that she would doc my grade if I wasn’t able to return an email within 24 hours. Speaking of clinicals - I was responsible for finding my own clinicals. The program would place me if I couldn’t come up with anything, but it also said that it couldn’t guarantee where the placement would occur - just within my state. The advisor actually suggested re-activating my RN licenses in a neighboring state so I could potentially reach out to other systems there searching for placement. - Alum
• PMHNP program It was feasible allowed us to received education at a good pace. Books and resources were right on point and provided necessary info. Staff readily available when questions needed answered. Professionalism was executed - Alum
• No support whatsoever in finding preceptors The school gaslights the students and forces them through a lengthy and punishing bureaucracy to get help finding preceptors that meet their requirements. They offer an assist program but the process of getting enrolled and moving through is is sequential (including tasks the student has already tried, they must repeat it all over again) and the goal seems to be to exhaust the student so they give up. I believe the cost of lost tuition due to attrition is included in their business plan. The advisers encourage students to continue taking didactic courses despite not having secured preceptorships that correlate to the didactic class in order to generate revenue, even though they know the student is struggling. Emails to anyone in the school have a 48 hour mandatory wait time for a response and you rarely speak to the same person. In order to get my hospitalist rotation completed I had to travel from NJ to Ohio because that was the only NP I could find to precept me. - Alum