Our Doctor of Nursing Practice (BSN-DNP) program has five Nurse Practitioner (NP) tracks that will deepen your expertise in the type of patient care that you feel passionate about: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care, Adult-Gerontology Primary Care, Family, Pediatric Primary Care, and Psychiatric-Mental Health.
Application Deadline
Admission to the NP tracks is offered one time per year, for the fall.
Application available: November 15
Priority application deadline: February 1
Supplemental materials due: February 15
Late applications accepted on a rolling basis as long as space remains available
Eligibility
To apply for our BSN-DNP Nurse Practitioner program, you must have:
A BSN degree GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale (as listed on BSN transcript).
An active, unencumbered Indiana or Compact RN license.
One year of full-time RN experience (1,800 hours) in an appropriate setting for your NP track. Applicants who do not have this experience at the time of admission must gain this experience while enrolled, prior to beginning the clinical phase of the program.
Steps to apply
You must have the equivalent of one year of full-time RN experience (1,800 hours) in the appropriate setting for your track prior to starting clinical coursework:
Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner: Critical care RN experience in an Adult ICU, ED, or PCU, and current ACLS certification.
Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner: RN experience in an adult hospital setting or extended care facility.
Family Nurse Practitioner: Any bedside RN experience.
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner: RN experience in pediatrics or NICU.
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner: Any bedside RN experience. Psychiatric nursing experience is preferred but not required.
Your resume should include (if applicable):
Clinical RN experience - be sure to include employment dates (month & year) and hospital unit, if applicable
Other healthcare-related work experience
Significant prior careers
National certifications (please spell out certification & organization names - do not use acronyms)
Professional development leadership and/or committee roles in your place of employment (examples: charge nurse, shift leader, committee member, committee chair)
Awards, nominations, or other recognition within the field of healthcare (or academics for recent grads)
Preceptor experience
Healthcare-related volunteer experience
Membership to nursing organizations (including nursing student organizations, if a recent graduate) - denote any leadership roles held
There is no page limit - please feel free to use as much space as you need to in order to convey to the admission committee who you are as a nurse and potential graduate student. IUSON does not provide a resume template. You may use whatever resume format you prefer.
Using your computer or phone, take a screenshot (not a photo) from the state licensing board website showing your full name, license number, and license expiration date.
The following are examples of appropriate professional references:
Current or former nurse manager or other clinical supervisor (i.e. house supervisor, shift coordinator, etc.)
Nurse practitioner with whom you work closely/have a professional relationship
Clinical educator
Physician who has supervised/worked closely with you
References from co-workers who are peers, close friends, or relatives are not appropriate.
You will enter your reference contact information into the application. Please be sure to include your reference's job title and to use your reference's professional email associated with their workplace, and not a personal account such as Gmail. If we are unable to verify the identity of your reference, the reference may not be considered as part of your application.
Electronic evaluation requests will be sent to your references once you submit their information into the application.
Complete and submit an IU graduate application for your intended nurse practitioner track by the application deadline.
To locate the track to which you are applying, type "Nurse" in the program search bar. Please pay attention to which campus is offering the program you are selecting. Applications submitted to another IU campus cannot be transferred to IU Indianapolis. You can also filter by campus using the Filters button next to the search bar.
Be sure to upload the required supplemental materials to your application before submitting:
Résumé/CV
RN License
You do not need to upload unofficial transcripts to your application, or list achievements separately from your resume. There are optional places in the application to do so, but you may skip those.
If you have questions about your application submission, please contact Graduate Nursing Admissions at nuadmit@iu.edu.
Request official transcripts be sent from ALL college and universities that you have previously attended outside of the IU system directly to the School of Nursing. Only transcripts sent directly from the institution are considered official. Transcripts are not required for any coursework completed at IU (any campus).
Electronic transcripts are preferred and should be sent to nuadmit@iu.edu.
Transcripts required to be sent by postal mail should be sent to:
IU School of Nursing Attn: Admissions Coordinator 600 Barnhill Drive, NU 128 Indianapolis, IN 46202
Please be sure that your transcripts are not being sent to the IU Indianapolis Graduate School or IU Indianapolis Undergraduate Admissions. We will do our best to retrieve any transcripts misdirected to these offices, but it is not always possible.
Official transcripts must be received by the School of Nursing no later than 14 days after the application deadline.
The application fee is $70 per application and is non-refundable.
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