QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY



QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF NURSING

PERSONAL ESSAY

Applicant’s Name:      

The personal essay is an important part of the secondary screening of candidates for admission to either the Master of Nursing Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner program (MN-PHCNP) or the Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner (PHCNP) Diploma program. The scores will be based on your ability to address all the items below in a comprehensive manner. It is suggested that you include examples of your experiences that illustrate your responses. Answers must be in Times New Roman 12 font and limited to one-page per question. As well, answers that are overly brief and/or very general will not be highly scored. Your written submission contributes strongly toward determining whether you are selected for admission to the program.

Below are the questions which you can complete on this page and email to grad.nursing@queensu.ca or mail into:

Graduate Program

School of Nursing

Cataraqui Building

92 Barrie St.

Queen’s University

Kingston, ON K7L 3N6

1. What is your motivation for wanting to become a NP-PHC rather than NP-Adult or NP-Pediatrics?

     

2. What professional and personal attributes do you bring to the NP-PHC role?

     

3. Given that each course requires at least 15 hours of preparation time per week in addition to course and clinical placement hours, please describe specific strategies you will use to meet the time demands of the program.

     

4. Please describe your understanding of primary health care. How are NPs important in the delivery of primary health care to diverse populations.

     

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