Boise State University

“And I feel like I did as well or better than most, so I was very well prepared and did well.”

“I was very pleased with how I was prepared and very pleased at how well I was able to pick things up and move forward and my orientation was shorter than average and, and.”

“Um, I used a prep course for before I took my board, and I think it was the best thing ever I won’t plug which one it is but if you want it after I’m done I’ll let you know um, but I felt like when I was going through the prep course I already had the answers from when I went through our program, so I definitely felt like I was taught the foundations.”

“It’s scary to go into that role in the beginning. I think that you always walk in and you’re like oh my gosh I hope I don’t hurt anyone and you have to go through all those checks and balances to make sure you’re doing the right thing for each patient, but I feel like Boise State gave me the foundation and the confidence to know that if I didn’t know something then I knew where to find the information and that I could safely take care of people which I think is the most important thing.”

“Overall I think that I had such a great foundation from the different courses that Boise State provided that I felt like I could walk into the role and be as prepared as I was expected to be as a newly graduated nurse practitioner.”

“I know the program’s hard, but, also there’s so many benefits, and not even just ending up being a nurse practitioner, but even with this degree there’s so many things you can do, you can teach, you can, you know. So I just, stick with it, it’s worth it.”

“Boise State’s program actually fit in really well with my current role both the adult and the geriatric, mostly primary care but also with a little bit more of a kind of an acute care role I took on having a good solid foundation, the basic foundation I think when you go to any nursing program you know it’s, you don’t learn everything you need to know. What you really need to know, or what you really learn is what, is kinda the building blocks and I think that Boise State did a great job of kinda giving me those building blocks so I could build upon or learn even more after I left school.”

“But I felt Boise’s program was awesome I felt very ready to go, of course I had like over 20 years nursing experience too, so it might have been a different story if I only had like five, three to five years, you know, experience as well, so.”

“I just, I love Boise State I thought they had a great online program, lots of support, and so it was easy to just transition right over there, just keep pushing through.”