Campus Immersion Experiences at FNU
Frontier Bound
Students begin their journey with an enriching three-day campus immersion experience on Frontier Nursing University’s beautiful campus in Kentucky. Our alumni will tell you that this tradition is one of their most treasured memories as an FNU student. The Frontier Bound experience is where you meet your classmates, faculty and staff and your advisor. Students enjoy this time staying on the FNU campus and being pampered with healthy and delicious home-cooked meals. 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.
“You come here for a few days a few times during the program, and it gets into your heart in a different way. We call it homecoming when we all come back. It’s a really special place.”
– Neissa Meier, DNP, CNM
FNU Graduate and Faculty Member
Clinical Bound
FNU students are excited to return to Kentucky for this five-day skills-intensive experience. This unique, hands-on active learning experience allows students to feel validated as having acquired the skills necessary to begin their community-based clinical practicum. Clinical Bound also allows students to have face-to-face communication with their faculty members and peers. It is one of the signature events in every student’s time at FNU.
FNU’s campus features labs, simulation rooms and classrooms with state-of-the-art technology that allows for innovative ways of teaching and learning.
Read more about Clinical Bound on our blog. 
Commencement Ceremony
While it’s not a requirement, many students choose to return to Kentucky for graduation. Frontier Nursing University’s annual commencement ceremony takes place every September. Nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners from almost every state across the U.S. who complete an FNU distance-education program attend and invite their friends and families to join in the occasion.
FNU Campus Move
FNU’s Kentucky campus has moved from Hyden, Ky., to Versailles, Ky. Clinical Bound sessions resumed as in-person sessions in October 2021. All Frontier Bound orientation sessions will return to in-person sessions beginning May 2022. Learn more about our Versailles campus and this exciting time at FNU.
Everyone attending on-campus events must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. This includes employees and all students attending Clinical Bound and/or Frontier Bound. Please click here to view FNU’s COVID-19 vaccination requirements.
Campus Safety
For information about our Versailles, Ky., campus safety please visit our Campus Safety page.
