Resident Intensive Summer Experience (RISE)

Required Immersive Summer Experience (RISE)
Campus Clinical Immersions (CCIs)

RISE Schedule

Required Immersive Summer Experience (RISE) is scheduled the first week of the fall semester in a synchronous online format hosted on D2L and provides orientation to the DNP Program. During RISE, students will be immersed in synchronous activities on Zoom tailored to their DNP Program specialty. Students will meet with faculty advisors, staff members, fellow classmates, and learn details about their graduate degree program and specialty.

Required Immersive Summer Experience (RISE) Dates / Locations
Nurse Anesthesiology DNP 1 Students
Nurse Anesthesiology DNP 2 & 3 Students
June 3rd – 7th, 2024 On Campus
MS-DNP, Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Midwife, Executive Health System Leadership - Students Aug 26th – Aug 27th, 2024 Online Synchronous Zoom
All Certificate – Students Aug 26th, 2024 Online Synchronous Zoom

Campus Clinical Immersion Schedule

Campus Clinical Immersions (CCIs) are scheduled the first week of each clinical semester and designed to help students develop specialty-specific clinical skills. Faculty from all the DNP specialties support learning workshops that are designed to develop essential clinical skill competencies. Upon completion of CI students are prepared to continue to enhance clinical skills under the supervision of preceptors in clinical environments.

Campus Clinical Immersion (CCI) Dates
Nurse Anesthesiology DNP 2 - Students Clinical Preparedness Intensive
Nov 29th, 30th - December 1st, 2023
Nurse Anesthesiology DNP 2 - Students Clinical Skills Intensive
January 8th - 11th, 2024
Nurse Anesthesiology DNP 2 - Students
Nurse Anesthesiology DNP 3 - Students
Valley Review Course
January 12th - 14th, 2024
Nurse Anesthesiology DNP 1 - Students Sim Lab Spring
April 11th - April 12th, 2024
Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Midwife, All Certificate - Students CCI #1 January 10th - 12th, 2024
CCI #2 May 13th - 15th, 2024
CCI #3 August 28th - 30th, 2024

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Health Sciences Innovation Building (HSIB)
1670 E Drachman
Tucson, AZ 85721-0203

College of Nursing (CON)
1305 N Martin Ave
Tucson, AZ 85721-0203

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