CU Graduation

Well. Such a day actually comes! Oh my… never thought this would end but it actually does!

There is one last step that you need to do for graduation that is clear as mud. lol.

For me, I didn’t receive an email from school until I called them for it but you should be getting an email for an instruction that a student needs to follow for graduation application. According to the email, steps are following.

1. Log in to the student portal at my.chamberlain.edu.
2. Click on the Resources icon in the left navigation toolbar.
3. Click the Support Services icon and select Ask Student Services. A new window will appear.
4. Select the Cases link on the top left of the screen, and then click New Case.
5. Under the Department drop-down menu, select Student Finance/Academic Advising. Under the Request Detail drop-down menu, select Online Graduation Application.
6. Fill in all of the information in the blank fields and click Submit.

Then you will see the below page.

Currently employer: Yes, they want you to put your current employer in.
Session: This is the month and year you started the very last class. I ended my last class in April 2020 but the class started in March 2020. So, I am putting March 2020.

The school will take about 10-12 weeks for them to deliver the actual paper form of a diploma. However, if you need something quicker for going to another school before that 12 weeks, then you can request for program completion letter about a week after you submitted the graduation application. The school will send the program completion letter following 2~3 days.

And… YOU ARE DONE!!! YAY!!! Congratulation to you! =]

No. I am attending the graduation ceremony. Done with school, got the paper with MSN on it. I don’t care. =p

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NR661 – APN Capstone Practicum

March 2020

Finally the last class!!!

NR661 Syllabus – This may change depending on when you are registered to the class.

I initially didn’t want to go to the review session as I didn’t plan to take the board exam. I am continuing to another school for PMHNP. Hence, I actually started to work on the Alternative assignment. Thankfully my procrastination saved me as I only did the first 3 pages of the entire assignment.
At the last moment, I decided to go because the flight was only $115 to Chicago from LAX! I couldn’t believe the price. Maybe because of the Coronavirus? Hum… Anyhow, with 20 hours of clinical hour credit and not doing the alternative assignment which could be 50-100 pages of typing, going to the review session sounded more appealing than when the ticket price was $400+.

*For April 2020 review session, the event has been canceled due to COVID-19.

But for those who are considering the alternative assignment, here is the info.
Here is the rubric (NR661 W8 Alternative Assignment_V2) for the alternative assignment.

Anyhow, here goes my NR661 journey.

Intensive review
Below is the agenda. Dates will be different but the event starts on Sunday. Here is the Review session fact sheet.

Saturday – Travel Day
All Day	Out of Town Student Travel Day *No planned Chamberlain Activities *If you live locally, you do not need to be at the Q Center until Sunday morning
Sunday
9:00am – 10:00am	Arrivals & Registration at your leisure
10:00am	APEA Review Begins
12:30pm – 1:30pm	Lunch
7:00pm	APEA Review Day 1 Concludes
Monday, April 20
7:45am – 8:30am	Arrivals & Registration at your leisure
8:30am	APEA Review Begins
12:30pm – 1:30pm	Lunch
6:00pm	APEA Review Day 2 Concludes
Tuesday – Optional Session
9:00am – 11:00am	Optional Session – Join Chamberlain Career Services professionals to learn: Professionalism & Social Media – Too often we fall back into thinking that the only time we should maintain a positive online presence is when we are looking for a new opportunity or job. Instead, we need to remember that at all times in your career, there is chance you will meet, talk or connect online with someone and get a chance to enlarge your networking group. Learn about developing your professional online presence through social media. Career Management – Several great professional development resources are available to you as Chamberlain students, learn how to access job leads, connect with employers and attend upcoming events resources. Interviewing- Strategies to successfully prepare for and execute a nurse practitioner interview.

If you are not staying in Q Center, then your DayPass is $81.40/day. So, you are paying $162.80 for the pass, that is if you are not staying for the optional day.

Practicum logging
I just clarified with my instructor regarding the expectation of practicum logging, and according to the instructor, as long as I see 2 patients/hour, he is ok with it. I think I have an angel for the last class! Make sure to check with your instructor before you start to log any hours. In NR661, you are only required to log 105 hours instead of 125 hours. This is because you get 20 hour-credits for attending the APEA review sessions.

APEA Review Schedule
Note: You can watch the review video up to two times.
Make sure to reach your instructor regarding QBank. Some instructors will come up with their own and require you to get 100% on QBank in the exam mode. Below is one of the students whose instructor requiring QBank.

Yes, my professor said all qbank questions must be completed in each subject in exam mode or it is an automatic fail at the end if we cannot get our completion certificate.

My instructor stated that QBank is “recommended but not required”. Below is my instructor’s response regarding QBank.

The QBank questions are not required per se, but recommended. But you have to submit your first 150 question practice exam you take each week for a grade starting in Week 2.

So, check with your instructor.

Week 1 APEA review topics

• Introduction, Antibiotics (Part 1-3)
• EENT Disorders (Part 1-3)

APEA QBank practice questions

• Practice EENT Subject Area Questions, plus Mixed Content Practice Questions

Week 2 APEA review topics

• Pediatrics Section 1 (Part 1-5)
• Pediatrics Section 2 (Part 1-4)
• Growth and Development (Part 1-4)

APEA QBank practice questions

• Practice Pediatric Subject Area Questions
• Practice Health Promotion Subject Area Questions, plus Mixed Content Practice Questions

Week 3 APEA review topics

• Hematology Disorders (Part 1-5)
• Orthopedic Disorders (Part 1-4)
• Dermatological Disorders (Part 1-4)

APEA QBank practice questions

• Practice Hematology Subject Area Questions
• Practice Orthopedic Subject Area Questions
• Practice Dermatology Subject Area Questions, plus Mixed Content Practice Questions

Week 4 APEA review topics

• GI Disorders (Part 1-3)
• Endocrine Disorders (Part 1-4)

APEA QBank practice questions

• Practice GI Subject Area Questions
• Practice ENdocrine Subject Area Questions, plus Mixed Content Practice Questions

Week 5 APEA review topics

• Neurology Disorders (Part 1-3)
• Mood Disorders (Part 1-3)

APEA QBank practice questions

• Practice Neurology Subject Area Questions
• Practice Psychiatry Subject Area Questions, plus Mixed Content Practice Questions

Week 6 APEA review topics

• Cardiovascular Disorders (Part 1-4)
• Pulmonary Disorders (Part 1-4)

APEA QBank practice questions

• Practice Cardiovascular Subject Area Questions
• Practice Pulmonary Subject Area Questions, plus Mixed Content Practice Questions

Week 7 APEA review topics

• Men’s Health (Part 1-2)
• Women’s Health (Part 1-4)
• Urological Disorders/STIs (Part 1-4)
• Pregnancy (Part 1-3)

APEA QBank practice questions

• Practice Men’s Subject Area Questions
• Practice Women’s Health Subject Area Questions
• Urology Subject Area Questions
• STI Subject Area Questions
• Pregnancy Subject Area Questions, plus Mixed Content Practice Questions

Week 8 APEA review topics

• Primary Care Procedures
• Exam Strategy

APEA QBank practice questions – Random practice exam

• Random Practice Exams

APEA exam score x 0.3 = course score

Week 2 to 7, APEA practice exam worth 30 points each with 150 questions, and it doesn’t have to be done in one sitting.

You will have to complete the 2 practice questions and the evaluation at the end in order for you to get to completion certificate.

Week 1: Certification Review Plan Assignment
Trust me. After you read the assignment guideline, you will be amazed by how tedious and useless the assignment is. I would rather spend the time actually studying for the board exam rather than doing the assignment. Enough of my rant… =p

In the NR603, you took the APEA exam and based on the result of the exam, you will be doing the assignment. You will pick 4 weakest topics from the APEA exam and 2 concentration areas. The concentration area is on the bottom of your exam score page (assessment, diagnostic, etc.).

You will be making a table for the assignment shown below.

Good luck with working on the “Learning Activities” part where you are not supposed to repeat the same contents on different “Learning Goal” part. 6 learning goals and 6 learning activities. That’s 36 different ways that you have to come up with “Learning Activities”. lol

Nothing but just time-consuming…

Don’t forget to capture the score from the APEA exam and add it to the assignment at the end.

You know. That’s not the end of week 1. lol

I am more amazed! For 10 points, you are not only required to post a video presentation of your self-introduction video + writing something about PCMH but also need to post replies to 3 peers and answer all the questions posted by the instructor. For 10 POINTS! Wow… I really am amazed.

Week 2-3
Nothing specific besides the QBank.

Once you log in to the Qbank, you will see above. Blue one is the 150 question quiz that you need to turn in once a week. Some questions tend to repeat week after week so it would be good idea to practice through the other sections besides blue.

Week 4: VISE Assignment
This VISE assignment is quite different than before. You will be given 25 diagnoses list and the instructor will randomly select one. You are expected to be in front of a camera and use another person (husband, child, etc) in front of a camera to do the VISE. Be natural as if you are in your clinic and seeing a patient. When the VISE starts, your instructor will give you a scenario and you will begin the assessment. In my case, my instructor answered all my assessment questions. I utilized my wife and I assessed her according to what I believe the diagnosis is. Don’t be too alarmed as the scenario was very obvious for what the diagnosis was. As soon as my instructor completed the 1st sentence of the scenario, I knew what the diagnosis was. This may differ depending on your instructor. I heard from some people that their instructor asked many questions. The followings are some tips.

1. Depending on your instructor, he/she may let you use the internet for you to reference Epocrates.
2. As you will be able to take a note of the scenario on a paper, write the note on the 25 diagnoses list. This will make sure that you are getting correct medication and diagnostic tests. I would say this would also depend on your instructor.
3. Get a stethoscope, a penlight, a thermometer, and etc as you may need them while you are assessing.
4. Relax! You will be fine. =]

Week 5: APN Capstone Portfolio Part 1
I initially thought the assignment was given by mistake, and I actually questioned the assignment to my instructor. lol. The assignment was about reflection on DNP. Huh? DNP? I am not even considering that path and I am writing about DNP? Well, yes. The assignment is about writing DNP, how wonderful and exciting career it would be in a “complex healthcare system”. Well, don’t hold your breath yet, that’s not all.

The second part is writing a resume. There is an FNP Sample Resume. Pretty straight forward.

The third part is making a profile on LinkedIn. I had a LinkedIn that I had for a long time. I asked if I can use the LinkedIn as is, my instructor was fine with it. Done!
Here is the link to my LinkedIn so that you can see how it looks like. My LinkedIn may change in time so… be aware. =p
I asked my instructor that I need to build LinkedIn as if I already am NP. My instructor said no. I think they just wanted to see LinkedIn account with the school name and related content.

Week 6: APN Capstone Portfolio Part 2
This is the assignment that will kill all other assignments in terms of the time and effort you have to invest in. I have been hearing from the previous classes that they were able to breeze through in a day. I couldn’t believe it. Later, I found out that the guideline for the assignment has been changed starting from my class. yay…..

Let’s start with example portfolios from school.
1. NR661 Professional Portfolio Part 2 Examples
2. Part 2 Portfolio Layout Example

Basically, you are going to do the following.
Copy and paste your prior essay as an examplar.
Write a paragraph or so of Chamberlain Program Outcomes, AACN MSN Essentials, NONPF Core Competencies, and Reflection.
On the Connect part, you will come up with 2 keywords and define them. This is where you will find some scholarly resources for definitions.

Do above 10x and you are done.

It would look like above on the table of contents.

Below is the program outcome, AANC MSN Essentials, and NONPF Core Competencies.
To be honest, I don’t really know what I wrote. I don’t think I never BSed more than this assignment. I saw some other portfolios which were completed before my cohort and many had grammar errors and run-on sentences. Most of them told me that they got full credit. Many of them had somewhere 60 to 100 pages of portfolio. Out of all those pages, what you actually write is about 15 to 20 pages. I don’t care and I am done. Not going to look back! Turn that thing in and be free!!!!! No, the paper doesn’t go through the Turn-it-in system.

Week 7
Due to COVID-19 outbreak, the review session at Chicago was canceled. It was replaced with the online review session.

In week 7, you will see an assignment titled “Onground Intensive Review or Alternative Assignment”. This is where you will submit intensive review assignment or alternative assignment. For the intensive review assignment, you just need to write 3 paragraph or so about the intensive review. I don’t think anyone will copy and paste other person’s work on this but this is only one that will go through Turn-It-In. 200 points for this. However, it’s not due until week 8 as you won’t complete your intensive review until week 8.

Week 8
The final exam is the APEA exam. No, there is no specific study guide and exam questions are harder than very different from what you practiced from the QBank.

There are 2 completion certificates.
The first is for the video review session and the second is for the intensive review. For the video review session cerficiate, you can see those 2 practice exams from the beginning of the class.
The intensive review session certificate, you won’t see it until week 8. Around week 8, you will receive an email with below message.

To activate your Online Review Course Certificate    ( this is the one that must be uploaded into the Week 8: APEA Review Modules Completion Certificate Assignment)
·        Each CE video must have one viewing completed
·        The 2 sets of questions must be completed
·        The Evaluation must be completed to activate and download the certificate of completion

For the separate certificate for the Intensive Review
·        The 2 sets of questions must be completed
·        The Evaluation must be completed to activate and download the certificate of completion

Email message saying that the 2nd cerficiate has to be completed. I was told by my instructor that the 2nd certificate is an optional, however, I also heard from some people that their instructor required them. So, check with your insturtor. There is no specific section in the module to submit the 2nd certificate.

Yes, there are 4 practice questions total. Good new is that the 2 sets of practice questions from online review and the 2 sets of practice questions from intensive review are exactly the same. Even better news, score doesn’t matter. =p

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