Nursing Supplemental Instruction (NSI) Do you need some extra academic support to pass your nursing coursework? Upper-class BSN students lead weekly peer to peer instruction in prerequisite nursing foundation courses until final exam week. Students who use NSI are expected to attend the sessions each week. To participate in NSI, students must be University of Iowa students who are formally classified as:
nursing interest (pre-nursing) and working toward earning a BSN degree at Iowa or
early admissions nursing students who are currently in the UI BSN program
Nursing Supplemental Instruction is free and available for the following UI subjects*:
Fall semester only: ACB 3110 - Principle of Human Anatomy CHEM 1070 - General Chemistry I HHP 2310 - Nutrition & Health STAT 1020 - Elementary Statistics and Inference
Spring semester only: BIOL 1141 - Human Biology: Health Professions CHEM 1080 - General Chemistry II MICR 3164 - Microbiology HHP 1300 - Physiology
Virtual Nursing Educational Support Tutoring (NEST) Do you have a quick question that you need help with? Weekly virtual drop-in/drop-out tutoring with upper-class BSN students in the same course subjects covered in NSI. Participants can use tutoring as often as needed.
*Help with any of these courses is subject to change based on instructor/tutor availability.
BSN Admissions Essay Workshop Held every spring in February-to help nursing interest students who will apply through the BSN standard admissions process craft their nursing admissions essay. Students rave about this workshop, and many students who attended have said it helped them get admitted to the program. An event announcement is sent to all nursing interest majors. RSVP is required to attend, and seats are filled first come, first serve.
