Calendar of Events
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Psych-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) LIVE Q&A Session
Are you interested in learning about FNU's Psych-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) program? Join us for a Q&A session. Register
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Winter Term 2023 Application Deadline
Winter Term 2023 FNU accepts applicants on a rolling admission process versus a standard admission process. Applicants can learn the status of their application within four to five weeks after their application materials are received by FNU. Apply today…the sooner you apply, the sooner you know. We look forward to working with you.
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National Midwifery Week
National Midwifery Week was created by American College of Nurse-Midwives to celebrate and recognize midwives and midwife-led care. Visit www.midwife.org to learn more.
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FNU Virtual Event in Celebration of National Midwifery Week
National Midwifery Week is October 2-8, and Frontier Nursing University is celebrating by hosting an exciting virtual event dedicated to nurse-midwifery. Visit the Virtual Event website and register for free educational sessions at Frontier.edu/MidwiferyWeek.
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National Midwifery Week Session: So…You Want to be a Nurse-Midwife?
Join FNU’s nurse-midwifery faculty as we explore the roles, experiences, joys, and challenges of a career as a Certified Nurse-Midwife. We will discuss the path nurses can take to advanced practice nursing and what to expect once they get there. Come prepared with your questions about a career in nurse-midwifery. Learn more! Register
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American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) Conference
To be held in Louisville, KY
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Post-Master’s DNP LIVE Q&A Session
Are you interested in learning about FNU's Post-Master's DNP program? Join us for a Q&A session. Register
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Frontier Bound #1 – Winter Term 2023, MSN & PGC (CNM, FNP, PMHNP) Class 206
Subject to change due to COVID-19. Students begin their journey with an orientation to Frontier Nursing University. Time is spent learning skills needed for distance education, making lifelong friends, reviewing courses, asking questions, and planning to be a successful Frontier student after returning home. Winter 2023 term begins January 9, 2023.
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National Nurse Practitioner Week
National Nurse Practitioner Week is held annually to celebrate these exceptional health care providers and to remind lawmakers of the importance of removing outdated barriers to practice so that NPs will be allowed to practice to the full extent of their experience and education. Visit www.aanp.org to learn more.
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FNU Virtual Event in Celebration of National Nurse Practitioner Week
National Nurse Practitioner Week is November 13-19, and Frontier Nursing University is celebrating by hosting an exciting virtual event dedicated to nurse practitioners. Visit the Virtual Event website and register for free educational sessions at Frontier.edu/NPWeek.
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Frontier Bound #2 – Winter Term 2023, MSN & PGC (CNM, FNP, PMHNP) Class 206
Subject to change due to COVID-19. Students begin their journey with an orientation to Frontier Nursing University. Time is spent learning skills needed for distance education, making lifelong friends, reviewing courses, asking questions, and planning to be a successful Frontier student after returning home. Winter 2023 term begins January 9, 2023.
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Frontier Bound #3 – Winter Term 2023, MSN & PGC (CNM, FNP, PMHNP) Class 206
Subject to change due to COVID-19. Students begin their journey with an orientation to Frontier Nursing University. Time is spent learning skills needed for distance education, making lifelong friends, reviewing courses, asking questions, and planning to be a successful Frontier student after returning home. Winter 2023 term begins January 9, 2023.
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Frontier Bound #4 – Winter Term 2023, MSN & PGC (CNM, FNP, PMHNP) Class 206
Subject to change due to COVID-19. Students begin their journey with an orientation to Frontier Nursing University. Time is spent learning skills needed for distance education, making lifelong friends, reviewing courses, asking questions, and planning to be a successful Frontier student after returning home. Winter 2023 term begins January 9, 2023.
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Frontier Bound #5 – Winter Term 2023, MSN & PGC (CNM, FNP, WHCNP) Class 206
Subject to change due to COVID-19. Students begin their journey with an orientation to Frontier Nursing University. Time is spent learning skills needed for distance education, making lifelong friends, reviewing courses, asking questions, and planning to be a successful Frontier student after returning home. Winter 2023 term begins January 9, 2023.
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Psych-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) LIVE Q&A Session
Are you interested in learning about FNU's Psych-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) program? Join us for a Q&A session. Register
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Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) LIVE Q&A Session
Frontier Nursing University has the #3 Best Online Family Nurse Practitioner Master’s Program in the country, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report Are you interested in learning about FNU's FNP program? Join us for a Q&A session. Register
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Frontier Bound #6 – Winter Term 2023, DNP Class 49
Subject to change due to COVID-19. Students begin their journey with an orientation to Frontier Nursing University. Time is spent learning skills needed for distance education, making lifelong friends, reviewing courses, asking questions, and planning to be a successful Frontier student after returning home. Winter 2023 term begins January 9, 2023.
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Nurse-Midwifery LIVE Q&A Session
Are you interested in learning about FNU's Nurse-Midwifery program? Join us for a Q&A session. Register
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FeaturedSpring Term 2023 Application Deadline
Spring Term 2023 DEADLINE UPDATE-The application cycle for the Psychiatric-Mental Health program (MSN and PGC) for the Spring 2023 term (coursework beginning 4/10/23) is officially closed. We invite you to apply to the Summer 2023 term (coursework beginning 7/10/23) opening on 1/12/23. FNU accepts applicants on a rolling admission process versus a standard admission process. […]
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Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) LIVE Q&A Session
Frontier Nursing University has the #3 Best Online Family Nurse Practitioner Master’s Program in the country, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report Are you interested in learning about FNU's FNP program? Join us for a Q&A session. Register
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Nurse-Midwifery LIVE Q&A Session
Are you interested in learning about FNU's Nurse-Midwifery program? Join us for a Q&A session. Register
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Frontier Bound #1 – Spring Term 2023, MSN & PGC (WHCNP) Class 207
Subject to change due to COVID-19. Students begin their journey with an orientation to Frontier Nursing University. Time is spent learning skills needed for distance education, making lifelong friends, reviewing courses, asking questions, and planning to be a successful Frontier student after returning home. Spring 2023 term begins April 10, 2023.
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Frontier Bound #2 – Spring Term 2023, DNP Class 50
Subject to change due to COVID-19. Students begin their journey with an orientation to Frontier Nursing University. Time is spent learning skills needed for distance education, making lifelong friends, reviewing courses, asking questions, and planning to be a successful Frontier student after returning home. Spring 2023 term begins April 10, 2023.
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Frontier Bound #3 – Spring Term 2023, MSN & PGC (CNM, WHCNP, PMHNP) Class 207
Subject to change due to COVID-19. Students begin their journey with an orientation to Frontier Nursing University. Time is spent learning skills needed for distance education, making lifelong friends, reviewing courses, asking questions, and planning to be a successful Frontier student after returning home. Spring 2023 term begins April 10, 2023.
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Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) LIVE Q&A Session
Are you interested in learning about FNU's Post-Master's DNP program? Join us for a Q&A session. Register
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Frontier Bound #4 – Spring Term 2023, MSN & PGC (CNM, FNP, PMHNP) Class 207
Subject to change due to COVID-19. Students begin their journey with an orientation to Frontier Nursing University. Time is spent learning skills needed for distance education, making lifelong friends, reviewing courses, asking questions, and planning to be a successful Frontier student after returning home. Spring 2023 term begins April 10, 2023.
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Frontier Bound #5 – Spring Term 2023, MSN & PGC (CNM, FNP, PMHNP) Class 207
Subject to change due to COVID-19. Students begin their journey with an orientation to Frontier Nursing University. Time is spent learning skills needed for distance education, making lifelong friends, reviewing courses, asking questions, and planning to be a successful Frontier student after returning home. Spring 2023 term begins April 10, 2023.
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Frontier Bound #6 – Spring Term 2023, MSN & PGC (CNM, FNP, PMHNP) Class 207
Subject to change due to COVID-19. Students begin their journey with an orientation to Frontier Nursing University. Time is spent learning skills needed for distance education, making lifelong friends, reviewing courses, asking questions, and planning to be a successful Frontier student after returning home. Spring 2023 term begins April 10, 2023.
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FeaturedSummer Term 2023 Application Deadline
Summer Term 2023 FNU accepts applicants on a rolling admission process versus a standard admission process. Applicants can learn the status of their application within four to five weeks after their application materials are received by FNU. Apply today…the sooner you apply, the sooner you know. We look forward to working with you.
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National Student Nurses Association (NSNA) Annual Convention
See you in Nashville, TN!
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FNU Reception at KANPNM
See you in Lexington, KY!
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Nurse-Midwifery LIVE Q&A Session
Are you interested in learning about FNU's Nurse-Midwifery program? Join us for a Q&A session. Register
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Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) LIVE Q&A Session
Are you interested in learning about FNU's FNP program? Join us for a Q&A session. Register
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American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) Annual Conference
See you in Orlando, FL!
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FNU Reception at ACNM
See you in Orlando, FL! Date and time subject to change.
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Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) LIVE Q&A Session
Are you interested in learning about FNU's Post-Master's DNP program? Join us for a Q&A session. Register
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Frontier Bound #1 – Summer Term 2023, MSN & PGC (WHCNP) Class 208
Subject to change due to COVID-19. Students begin their journey with an orientation to Frontier Nursing University. Time is spent learning skills needed for distance education, making lifelong friends, reviewing courses, asking questions, and planning to be a successful Frontier student after returning home. Summer 2023 term begins July 3, 2023.
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Frontier Bound #2 – Summer Term 2023, DNP Class 51
Subject to change due to COVID-19. Students begin their journey with an orientation to Frontier Nursing University. Time is spent learning skills needed for distance education, making lifelong friends, reviewing courses, asking questions, and planning to be a successful Frontier student after returning home. Summer 2023 term begins July 3, 2023.
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Frontier Bound #3 – Summer Term 2023, MSN & PGC (CNM, WHCNP, PMHNP) Class 208
Subject to change due to COVID-19. Students begin their journey with an orientation to Frontier Nursing University. Time is spent learning skills needed for distance education, making lifelong friends, reviewing courses, asking questions, and planning to be a successful Frontier student after returning home. Summer 2023 term begins July 3, 2023.
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Frontier Bound #4 – Summer Term 2023, MSN & PGC (CNM, FNP, PMHNP) Class 208
Subject to change due to COVID-19. Students begin their journey with an orientation to Frontier Nursing University. Time is spent learning skills needed for distance education, making lifelong friends, reviewing courses, asking questions, and planning to be a successful Frontier student after returning home. Summer 2023 term begins July 3, 2023.
Carrie Belin is an experienced board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and a graduate of the Johns Hopkins DNP program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Georgetown University School of Nursing, and Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She has also completed fellowships at Georgetown and the University of California Irvine.
Angie has been a full-scope midwife since 2009. She has experience in various birth settings including home, hospital, and birth centers. She is committed to integrating the midwifery model of care in the US. She completed her master’s degree in nurse-midwifery at Frontier Nursing University (FNU) and her Doctorate at Johns Hopkins University. She currently serves as the midwifery clinical faculty at FNU. Angie is motivated by the desire to improve the quality of healthcare and has led quality improvement projects on skin-to-skin implementation, labor induction, and improving transfer of care practices between hospital and community midwives. In 2017, she created a short film on skin-to-skin called 
Justin C. Daily, BSN, RN, has ten years of experience in nursing. At the start of his nursing career, Justin worked as a floor nurse on the oncology floor at St. Francis. He then spent two years as the Director of Nursing in a small rural Kansas hospital before returning to St. Francis and the oncology unit. He has been in his current position as the Chemo Nurse Educator for the past four years. He earned an Associate in Nurse from Hutchinson Community College and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Bethel College.
Brandy Jackson serves as the Director of Undergraduate Nursing Programs and Assistant Educator at Wichita State University and Co-Director of Access in Nursing. Brandy is a seasoned educator with over 15 years of experience. Before entering academia, Brandy served in Hospital-based leadership and Critical Care Staff nurse roles. Brandy is passionate about equity in nursing education with a focus on individuals with disabilities. Her current research interests include accommodations of nursing students with disabilities in clinical learning environments and breaking down barriers for historically unrepresented individuals to enter the nursing profession. Brandy is also actively engaged in Interprofessional Education development, creating IPE opportunities for faculty and students at Wichita State. Brandy is an active member of Wichita Women for Good and Soroptimist, with the goal to empower women and girls. Brandy is a TeamSTEPPS master trainer. She received the DASIY Award for Extraordinary Nursing Faculty in 2019 at Wichita State University. 
Dr. Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine is an Arab-disabled queer woman of color with a PhD in Nursing and an interdisciplinary certificate in Disability Ethics from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Dr. Jamal-Eddine’s doctoral research explored spoken word poetry as a form of critical narrative pedagogy to educate nursing students about disability, ableism, and disability justice. Dr. Jamal-Eddine now serves as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in UIC’s Department of Disability and Human Development and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Organization of Nurses with Disabilities (NOND). During her doctoral program, Sabrina served as a Summer Fellow at a residential National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute at Arizona State University (2023), a summer fellow at Andrew W. Mellon’s National Humanities Without Walls program at University of Michigan (2022), a Summer Research Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute (2021), and an Illinois Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disabilities (LEND) trainee (2019-2020).
Vanessa Cameron works for Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nursing Education & Professional Development. She is also attending George Washington University and progressing towards a PhD in Nursing with an emphasis on ableism in nursing. After becoming disabled in April 2021, Vanessa’s worldview and perspective changed, and a recognition of the ableism present within healthcare and within the culture of nursing was apparent. She has been working since that time to provide educational foundations for nurses about disability and ableism, provide support for fellow disabled nursing colleagues, and advocate for the disabled community within healthcare settings to reduce disparities.
Dr. Lucinda Canty is a certified nurse-midwife, Associate Professor of Nursing, and Director of the Seedworks Health Equity in Nursing Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Columbia University, a master’s degree from Yale University, specializing in nurse-midwifery, and a PhD from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Canty has provided reproductive health care for over 29 years. Her research interests include the prevention of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity, reducing racial and ethnic health disparities in reproductive health, promoting diversity in nursing, and eliminating racism in nursing and midwifery.
Dr. Lisa Meeks is a distinguished scholar and leader whose unwavering commitment to inclusivity and excellence has significantly influenced the landscape of health professions education and accessibility. She is the founder and executive director of the DocsWithDisabilities Initiative and holds appointments as an Associate Professor in the Departments of Learning Health Sciences and Family Medicine at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Nikia Grayson, DNP, MSN, MPH, MA, CNM, FNP-C, FACNM (she/her) is a trailblazing force in reproductive justice, blending her expertise as a public health activist, anthropologist, and family nurse-midwife to champion the rights and health of underserved communities. Graduating with distinction from Howard University, Nikia holds a bachelor’s degree in communications and a master’s degree in public health. Her academic journey also led her to the University of Memphis, where she earned a master’s in medical anthropology, and the University of Tennessee, where she achieved both a master’s in nursing and a doctorate in nursing practice. Complementing her extensive education, she completed a post-master’s certificate in midwifery at Frontier Nursing University.
Dr. Tia Brown McNair is the Vice President in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success and Executive Director for the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in Washington, DC. She oversees both funded projects and AAC&U’s continuing programs on equity, inclusive excellence, high-impact practices, and student success. McNair directs AAC&U’s Summer Institutes on High-Impact Practices and Student Success, and TRHT Campus Centers and serves as the project director for several AAC&U initiatives, including the development of a TRHT-focused campus climate toolkit. She is the lead author of From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education (January 2020) and Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success (July 2016 and August 2022 Second edition).