» Direct Entry (non-nurses)

The Direct Entry Program in Advanced Nursing Practice is designed to prepare individuals with a baccalaureate degree but without nursing backgrounds for the advanced practice nursing role. The program is a three-year, full-time program beginning each year in early May that incorporates an innovative curriculum with substantial clinical experience especially designed for this group of students. Students are eligible to take the nursing licensure examination at the end of the second fall semester. They must pass the exam before beginning the graduate primary care clinical sequence. Upon successful completion of the 3 year program, students will be awarded the M.S. degree but not a B.S.N. degree.
Students will be eligible to sit for the licensure exam after the second September semester, which upon successful completion, will give them the designation of R.N. (registered nurse). In addition to taking graduate courses during the following two semesters, students will have full-time clinical internships in surrounding acute care institutions. This experience will provide them with the experience they need before beginning the primary care sequence.

Admission Requirements

In addition to the general requirements found on the application process page. Direct Entry applicants must complete a series of course prerequisites. All applicants to the Direct Entry Program in Advanced Nursing Practice must have successfully completed these courses before the start of the program in May or during the first summer session. Such prerequisites must have been completed within ten years prior to the application deadline.
The GRE is no longer required for admisson. However, TOEFL is still required for applicants whose first language is not English;this exam must have been taken within two years prior to the application deadline. Only official score reports from ETS(Educational Testing Service) are accepted. Student score reports are not acceptable. Take the TOEFL 2 months in advance of the application deadline to assure that we receive an official report on time: it takes 4- 6 weeks or Simmons to receive scores. The Simmons institutional code is 3761.
A minimum score of 550(paper-based),230(computer-base) or 88(internet-based) is required.
The TOEFL  requirement is based on native language not citizenship. No other English proficiency exam will be accepted. The TOEFL is waived for applicants who have graduated at the bachelor's or master's level from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or a post secondary institution abroad that is recognized by the Ministry of Education in the host country in English-speaking countries only.

Prerequisite Courses at Simmons

Applicants who have not completed all the required courses for admission at the time of application may be admited provisionally
pending successful completion of such courses before enrollment in the graduate program. The School of Health Sciences offers such courses during the summer immediately preceeding the commencement of the clinical nursing sequence in the fall semester:

• NUR 421 Microbiology (4 credits)
• NUR 439 Biochemistry (combines Inorganic & Organic Chem.) (3 credits)
• NUR 431 Anatomy/Physiology (combines two semesters) (3 credits)
• WebStat(no credits,online)
• Developmental Psychology: A Lifespan Perspective(non credits,online)

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