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University of Wyoming

LEAP! from RN to BSN -

 

  • Enhancing RN/BSN education

  • Designed to promote public health leadership across settings

  • Visit http://www.uwyo.edu/leap
    for more information
 

Leadership Education to Advance Practice (LEAP), the public health leadership nursing project from the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, offers rural students in Wyoming the opportunity to address significant health care needs on a local level by becoming public health leaders in their own communities.  

Preparation in this track reaches beyond education in traditional public health nursing to provide students with training in leadership competencies that apply across all health care settings. This project, funded by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, makes it easier for nurses in rural Wyoming to complete their BSN degrees in their own community.

LEAP facilitated admission is currently available for prospective students living in the Southwest, Westcentral, and Northeast regions of Wyoming.

Facilitated LEAP admission:

  1. Opportunity for early admission. LEAP RN/BSN admission requirements include:

    1. Admission to UW - complete a UW Admission Application at:  www.uwyo.edu/apply 

      • If you have not previously been admitted to UW, you'll need to complete a Transfer Student Application and pay the $40.00 application fee. 

      • If you were previously admitted to UW, you should complete the Returning Student Application and shouldn't be required to pay the application fee.  

    2. Completion of an ADN program and copy of RN license OR evidence of satisfactory completion of one full year and continued enrollment in an ADN program.

    3. A GPA of 2.5 (and C or better in each course) on any required nursing, pre-requisite, or requisite courses that you may have already completed, or a cumulative GPA of 2.5 in your current ADN program (if still an ADN student). 

    4. An application to the School of Nursing and $30.00 application fee.  Complete the School of Nursing application at:  http://www.uwyo.edu/nursing/rnbsn_app_new2005.asp.

      • You can pay the fee online or can send a check or money order for the $30.00 application fee.

  2. Onsite mentoring and advising, and service-learning projects focused on needs in student’s own community.  

  3. See http://www.uwyo.edu/nursing/rnbsn/prospective/rn-getstarted.asp for more information about the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing RN/BSN completion track.

Questions?

  • Connie Diaz Swearingen
    Assistant Lecturer
    Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing
    University of Wyoming
    ConnieDS@uwyo.edu
    307-760-0428

  • Terrie Wiederich
    Office Associate
    Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing
    University of Wyoming
    TerrieL@uwyo.edu
    307-766-6821

Page last updated 10/9/2007

 

 

 

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