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OK, great thank you everyone. My name is Jamie Bergstein an I am the associate director of graduate admissions here at the University of Pennsylvania. It is my pleasure to have doctor Dong bent who is the program director of our nurse anesthesia program.
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12:02:52 PM
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Come here with us and she'll be giving the presentation. I just want to go over very quickly. Some administrative back end things about the web and are we recommend using the laptop or desktop computer with Chrome or fire Fox? Some event features and audio won't be available on mobile devices or other browsers. Unfortunately, we can't troubleshoot during the presentation, so if you do have an issue, we recommend refreshing the page or closing out the web and R and going back in.
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12:03:37 PM
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I'll please save any questions for the end of the presentation will have a Q&A or recording of this presentation will be available in a few days. So if you do have to leave, you'll be able to catch the recording. And Lastly, if anyone wants closed captioning, just click the CC button on the Top right. There is a picture of it on the slide and you can get close captioning and now I will hand it over to Doctor Don vent. Thank you Jamie. So.
Megan Roy
12:03:52 PM
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Excited to be here for our web and R just to talk a bit about our program that we have at the University of pen to DNP. Nurse anesthesia program just a little bit about our mission at the University of pen. We want to provide exemplary practitioners who will go out and forge are si RNA practice. In the future? We like to send benchmarks for quality clinical practice, scholarship and service. We do encourage our students to get out in practice an and facilitate learning for other learners.
We engage in interprofessional collaboration to promote patient safety and optimal health outcomes, which should be the basis of any program. We do like to translator translate research into inform best practices, so we encourage our students to read evidence based practice while there here so that they can be righted practitioners once they're done.
And we embrace innovation that transforms health systems to meet the diverse and complex populations that we will be dealing with.
So what are some of our program values as I described earlier, evidence based practice is embedded within our curriculum. Just about every class from the beginning of your program until the end of the program, we tell the students just delve into as much research as you possibly can.
We do what we are. Consumers of quality research. Here at Penn we have a very rich research based faculty so you will see that throughout the curriculum as well. We do use interactive simulation sessions, which is one of those things that we pride ourselves in from the beginning we get our students into our SIM lab so that they can get hands on practice with what's going on.
One of the things that you will recognize as well is that that translation from science to practice is integrated. Once your second semester comes in, you begin in the OR. Obviously there is clinical scholarship and professional development. We work with each student from the time they step on campus until they graduate in many of our alumni come back and help in simulation as well.
Just so you have an idea of our didactic faculty, I myself in the program director again, my name's Don Bent Doctor Angela Rosa D denado is my assistant program director. She is definitely my right hand. We have tons of program faculty.
Simulation leaders and then on the right side of the screen, all of our all of our our clinical fact faculty and didactic faculty that work here at the University of pen. I would be remiss not to mention Susan pelts as our program coordinator. She helps keep us in a straight path and make sure that students get the things that they need when they are here.
So just a bit about RDNP program. It was mandated by the council on accreditation or the COA that all si RNA programs would be doctor Lee prepared by twenty twenty five. What that means is anybody who's entering a program in approximately 2022 they need to be entering into a DNP program. Our program is 36 months. It's a full-time plan of study for the DNP. We have fully a fully integrated program, meaning we have to adapt it. Content clinical content simulations.
And our course units are divided into 9 semesters over those 3 years.
Once graduates complete the program, of course they will be able to sit for nce or national certification exam and you'll be able to make print, maintain practice in just about any state under an unrestricted nursing license. So you have to make sure that your nursing license is up-to-date during your program here and subsequently when you graduate.
This is our plan of study. You can see that we begin our session in year one in the summer, which would be in May of which every year you would be accepted into a code word. These are all the classes that you would attend, whether they're anesthesia related classes, University based classes, and also our clinical practicum is added into that as well.
Whip a DNP program. Plan of study of final DNP project will be overseen by a formal DNP committee. What that means for you is that you know you would be assigned a DNP Committee, which would consist of faculty from the University and a clinical preceptor clinical faculty as well. And those 2 people along with whoever your DNP group would be in your cohort. We would pick a scholarly project and those.
Program faculty would help you throughout your 2 1/2 years of the DNP part and I say 2 1/2 years because you don't begin your DNP coursework until maybe your second semester in the University. So your deliverables for that would take form of a submitted manuscript. We encourage our students to submit manuscripts. That would be.
Eligible to be printed in a.
Peer reviewed Journal and also for dissemination of our project. I can tell you that some of the students that graduated in 2019, their projects were used as quality improvement areas within the hospitals and some of their projects were actually implemented. An are utilized now in their clinical practice areas.
So our clinical faculty, you would be assigned with the si RNA an anesthesiologist.
They are the people who will guide you, mentor you and serve as your preceptor at our sites are clinical rotations of one to one or one to 2.
Ratio. I'm sorry would be throughout your program. What we mean by one to one or one to two ratio. You'd be supervised either. Just buy a C RNA or anesthesiologist or you would have a solo room. An anesthesiologist would be covering yourself and a C RNA once you're at that place in your clinical rotation.
So our political experience we pride ourselves on having a primary site model. What that means is that we pair you up with one of our eight primary site. And that's kind of your home base throughout your your studies. Here you will go on rotations. We have 4 pediatric sites consisting of Saint Christopher's Hospital for children chop. Of course AI DuPont in Delaware and we also send students on a rope pediatric rotation at Johns Hopkins University hospital as well. We do have specialty rotations.
Consisting of cardiothoracic and non cardiac, cardiac, thoracic, pediatric, cardiothoracic, obion, trauma rotations, we try and let our students pick their clinical sites, pick their clinical rotations. That way it gives you a little bit more autonomy when you are in school.
Our simulation on lab. We doubt ourselves on that practice makes perfect. We try and bring students into simulation so that we can simulate things that may happen in the operating room lot of times. These would be emergency cases emergency scenarios. We want you to understand and know what you're getting into an how to manage an emergency cases during your your clinical site visits.
International opportunities. It's been a few years, but we have a group of students January of 2020. They will be going on a missions trip to Guatemala, so they used to do it every year. An we kind of have a little break in that, and we're getting back to those international opportunities to provide anesthesia for our students. This would typically happen in your 2nd and 3rd year. I can tell you that we do take most of the 30 year students on missions trips.
One of the things we do encourage and our program is that students are integrated on a regional, regional, and national level would be professional Association meetings. We give our students off to attend panel, which is the Pennsylvania Association for nurse anesthesia. Once a year, the American Association for nurse anesthesia holds their annual meeting, which is typically sometime in September and we do give our students offer that as well. Students participate in lobby days.
Because we think it's important that when you're entering a practice that you understand what the barriers, maybe to your practice across the country. So we do encourage students to attend Bobby days and see what's going on on a political level with your.
Uh program. And also your profession students participate in nurse anesthesia week activities throughout the community as well. Nurse Anesthesia Week is typically in January and a couple of years. Students had fun runs and pen. Some students have actually gone to food banks and helped out in homeless shelters so we really encourage integrating not just your si RNA practice into life, but just reaching out to the community as well.
Again, this is just come si RNA week. This happened in 2015, the students have their annual fund. It was little cold, little chilly, but everybody got through it and they had a really good time. We are looking to work with other programs in our area to do some si RNA week activities come January.
One of the nice things about the University of pen. It is in a world class location in Philadelphia. You are going to find so much to do here. There's so much history in Philadelphia. I know that our first year Co board, the ones that started in May of 2019, they actually did a scavenger hunt throughout the city so that they could get to know the city better and they really enjoyed that activity amongst themselves.
So what is the admissions process? An admissions can speak more on the process, but we have a cohort admissions process, so you would be admitted for specific code board. The 2019 cohort is complete and the 2020 cohort is complete as well. So we will be admitting for the twenty twenty one cohort. the University does require 2 essays, 3 written references, typically from your employer, academic or someone in your professional life. All of your college transcripts.
A total score if it's applicable. Anna formal interview would be then granted to you by invitation. Once your application is reviewed by admissions and the program.
So any advice for students that would be aspiring to come to our program? Absolutely review the program's website. You get very valuable information there. One of the other things I can tell you is careful planning is.
Paramount students want to make sure because you're in a full time program, an most of our students do not work. We might have one or 2 that do, but it's very very difficult. So planning financially is very important as well.
Prepare for the time commitment. One of the things that our students will say in the beginning of the program is. Well, I didn't know it was going to take so much time, but we do tell you plan for the time commitment. Consider it a full time job and that's what you'll need to do in order to be successful. Our program is very rigorous, but we do have a lot of support here. A month faculty between myself and Doctor D denado any of your didactic faculty. We have a student to faculty mentor program, so that's always helpful.
And we have a student to student mentor program as well where you would be paired up with a student in the cohort ahead of you so that they can help you with specific questions and clinical or just in classes. Here at the University as well.
I'm email the program for specific questions. 2 program administration. We do encourage that if you have anything specific to the program that you can reach out to us, anything specific to admissions to reach out to admissions.
And shortly will be taking questions. We thank you for your consideration of pens nurse anesthesia program. So if you have any questions would be happy to answer them at this time.
So if you have questions, just make sure to type them into the chat box anwyl door. Best to answer if you have very specific questions to your specific situation. You may want to hold those. Offer an email, but if anyone's questions, please feel free to type them in the chat box.
Sarah Hershey
12:16:40 PM
Thank you! This was extremely helpful
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Marissa Davidson
12:16:57 PM
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Ricardo Aragon
12:17:00 PM
How many students do you admit per cohort?
Jae Jang
12:17:01 PM
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Emily Sassano
12:17:03 PM
How many people are generally accepted? And about how many application do you receive?
So one of the questions is how many students do we admit per code word for each cohort. We admit an maximum of 28 students. How did we come about a number for 28? This is given to us by the council on accreditation based on specialty sites.
Marisa Brantley
12:17:22 PM
Do you give admission preference to local students?
Another question was asked about how many we how many applicants we accept, but how many applications do we receive?
Last year we received a little over 100 applications and so we siphon through each of them and determine who were going to bring in in order to interview.
Marissa Davidson
12:17:58 PM
Any tips on preparing for the interview
Another question is do you give admissions preference to local students? I won't say that we give admissions preference really to any students. We try to look at your qualifications where you worked and then how you interview as well.
Any tips on preparing for the interview?
A couple tips that I can give you is in your clinical environment. Always make sure that you're trying to dig down deep into the cellular level of what's going on.
No. Your medication. Know your your patience. We may ask you specific questions on patients of your you know whatever units that you may have come from. So that's the biggest tip that I can give students an just come in prepared an relax as well. I know that's difficult sometimes to do.
Sarah Hershey
12:18:34 PM
When are interviews typically held?
When are interviews typically held the application process applications closed November 30th November 1st. Sorry not November 30th applications closed November 1st we give ourselves about a month and a half to go through applicants an so for the cohort that would be interviewing for for twenty twenty one we will have interviews sometime between February and April of 2020.
Alexander Gottesman
12:19:21 PM
Is interview priority based upon when you receive the application?
Any other questions up here we are is interviewed priority based apon when you receive the application. No sensitive cohort admissions. We open the applications up in July and again they closed November 1st and so just because you submit an application in July you still have the same chance of getting an interview. Even if you submit the application, October 30th or October 31st.
Emily Sassano
12:19:59 PM
Are there an specific pre requisite courses for applying?
Marissa Davidson
12:20:13 PM
Do you have preference on specific ICU specialities, or travel vs staff nursing?
Are there any specific prerequisite courses for applying? Yes? So this is one of those questions students asked. I would encourage you to view the website because that will give you all of the information about your prerequisites and what's required for for submitting an application.
Megan Roy
12:20:24 PM
Does the program allow students to take any classes before the cohort starts?
Do you have preferences on specific ICU specialties or travel versus staff nursing? So staff nursing is preferrable just because we know that those who are on staff at certain hospitals in ICU's that you will be able to take care of the sicker patients. Whereas a travel nurse is a lot of times they are not any ICU specialties. We take medical ICU, surgical ICU, cardiac.
Cardiothoracic intensive care trauma. ICU pediatric ICU as well.
We do take neonatal ICU and we we encourage applicants to get as much adult experience as they possibly can.
Does the program allows students to take any classes before before the cohort starts? Sure, so he students are allowed to come into pen and you know take horses as non matriculate eed students. Yes, that is a possibility. There are 5 courses that we allow students to take.
I just want to go back to the required courses for admission. We do require an introductory statistics course and this can be really any introductory statistics course so it could be the one that you took in your BSN or entry level nursing program. If you are a nursing second degree student and your first degree was in business and you took an introductory business statistics course will accept that as well.
An you do need to have a BSN or entry level MSN nursing degree in order to apply to the program.
Endera Preval
12:22:31 PM
Do the SRNAs have to compete with Anesthesia residents at the primary clinical sites?
Do the S Rnas have to compete with anesthesia residents at primary clinical sites? That's a very popular question. No Rs rnas don't compete with anesthesia residents. We have clinical coordinators at each clinical site and if there are, if a student is at a site that.
Actually has residents as well. The clinical coordinator make sure that the S RNA is able to participate in cases that they absolutely need to participate in. There are some of the sites if there is a residency program there as well. The clinical coordinator will say, OK, well on Thursdays, the S Rnas are here, so that's their day to do whatever the case is, whether it's cardiac or thoracic or anything of the above and Tuesdays when the SRNA is not there.
Maybe the day that they residents are in the room for those cases, so they do a very good job of making sure that there's not that competition during the clinical day.
Talon Deemer
12:24:11 PM
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Alexander Gottesman
12:24:15 PM
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Endera Preval
12:24:15 PM
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Megan Roy
12:24:18 PM
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Marvin Vinluan
12:24:22 PM
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Jorge Pozo
12:24:22 PM
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Sean Barnard
12:24:23 PM
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Lana Kesbeh
12:24:26 PM
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Victoria Goldbach
12:24:27 PM
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Marisa Brantley
12:24:27 PM
thank you!
OK, well if no one has any additional questions, will closeout the web and R again? This will be emailed to you in a few days, so just lookout for that email. Thank you again for attending. Thank you doctor bent for providing valuable information again. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us and the next cohort for twenty twenty one. The deadline to get his November 1st so we hope to see your application.
Ricardo Aragon
12:24:28 PM
Thank you very much!
Holly Russell
12:24:29 PM
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Jason Norris
12:24:29 PM
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Wendy Kuang
12:24:33 PM
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Sarah Hershey
12:24:37 PM
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