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Twenty minutes, and no stake in your answer
Every page on this site ends at the same limit: it can tell you the rules, and it cannot tell you what they mean for your postcode, your transcript and your roster. That last step needs a person, and this is the one we offer.
What this is, precisely
It is a phone call with someone from a practice that has been placing and supporting nursing professionals since 2008, across seventeen online programmes. It is free, it lasts about twenty minutes, and there is nothing to sign at the end of it.
It is not an enrolment call. We are not Walden's admissions team, we are not paid by Walden, and no one on this side earns anything whichever school you choose — which is the only reason the next sentence can be true. If your answers point away from Walden, we will say so, and name the schools that fit you better.
The three things worth a person
Most of what you need is already on this site and free to read. These three are the ones a page structurally cannot answer, because each depends on facts about you.
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Preceptor supply where you actually live
The single number that decides whether any online nursing programme is safe for you. It varies by county and by specialisation — psychiatric-mental health preceptors are scarcer than primary care ones in most markets. Placement is the work this practice has done longest, so this is usually answerable on the call.
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What your transcript is actually worth
Walden's graduate transfer ceiling is half the programme, which on a Family NP route is 29 credits and roughly $14,000. What you would actually be granted depends on what your prior coursework contains, and it is worth knowing before you choose a school rather than after.
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Whether a term calendar suits how you genuinely work
Not how you intend to work. Walden's weekly rhythm is unforgiving of a bad fortnight, and that is either the support you need or the friction that stops you. We have watched enough nurses through both to be useful about which one you are.
What to have to hand
None of this is required, and the call is worth having without any of it. It simply makes twenty minutes go further.
The state you would do your practicum in, which is occasionally different from the one you live in. Roughly what you have studied before and when. The specialisation you are leaning toward, or the fact that you have not decided. And an honest number for the hours a week you could give it, and the distance you could drive to a clinical site.
That last pair does more work than anything else in the conversation, and the honest version is more useful to you than the optimistic one.
Ask us anything on this site, and the parts that are not.
Leave a number and we will call once, at a time that suits a shift pattern. If we cannot help, we will tell you that quickly rather than slowly.
- Is my state restricted?
- Checked against the current list for your exact programme and catalogue year.
- Would the Pledge cover my track?
- It names the specialisations it applies to. We confirm yours before anything else.
- Which route am I being quoted?
- 58 credits or 84 changes your total by more than twelve thousand dollars.
- Should I be looking at Walden at all?
- Sometimes the answer is no. You will get that answer here rather than in year two.