RN to BSN Advising

Book an appointment

Current UTA undergraduate students may schedule advising appointments through UTA’s MavInspire Appointment Scheduling.

Students may book an appointment through MavInspire accessible through MyUTA, MyMav, or MyApps. Detailed instructions regarding how to schedule appointments through MavInspire can be found below.

MavInspire Appointment Scheduling

Advising Requirements for Post-Licensure Undergraduate Nursing Students

If you are a practicing RN in pursuit of your BSN degree, you will work with our RN Advising Team! Students interested in the RN-MSN program will also be advised by the RN Advising Team.

Please note: If you are an undergraduate student but do not hold an active, unencumbered nursing license, you will be advised by the Prelicensure BSN Advising Team.

Students in the undergraduate post-licensure undergraduate programs are encouraged to meet with an Academic Advisor once a semester.

All students may schedule an in-person, phone, or virtual appointment with an Academic Advisor.

While the main advising office is located in Arlington, Academic Advisors regularly visit the Fort Worth campus to provide advising to our campus-based student cohort.

Contacting the RN Advising Team

Office Location: 554 Pickard Hall
Office Phone: 817-272-2776 (Option 4)
RN Advisor Email: RNadvising@uta.edu
Hours of Operation: Monday – Friday 8:00 a.m – 5:00 p.m. CST (Closed 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. CST for lunch.)

Walk-ins are available for students in the RN-BSN/RN-MSN programs on a first-come, first-served based during our hours of operation.

RN-BSN and Undergraduate RN-MSN Program Academic Advisors

  • Mario Arteaga
  • Alexus Frazier
  • Katrina Johnson
  • Trinity Lawrence-Walton
  • Sawyer Lucy-Speidel
  • Dariela A. Pena
  • Emily Rodriguez
  • Norma Silvas
  • Gary Lewis

Before Your Appointment:

  1. Have a list of questions prepared to ask your advisor.
  2. Familiarize yourself with your degree plan requirements and begin to formulate a plan of action for future semesters.
  3. Familiarize yourself with course descriptions, requirements, and prerequisites.
  4. Make arrangements to be on time for your advising appointment. Students who arrive 10 minutes or more late will be rescheduled.

Virtual Information Sessions

Prospective undergraduate students are encouraged to attend a Virtual Information Session to learn more about the RN-BSN and RN-MSN programs in the Department of Undergraduate Nursing. Sessions are held virtually every other Thursday. Click here to access the Virtual Information Session calendar and registration information.

Nursing License Verification

Students are required to provide verification of an active, unencumbered license for acceptance into UTA and the Nursing program when submitting the application. The Office of Admissions and the College of Nursing and Health Innovation use NURSYS, a national database, to verify student license credentials. The NURSYS licensure and disciplinary database is the repository of the data provided directly from the Nursing Commission to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s (NCSBN) and is primary source equivalent. To learn more about NURSYS, please click or tap here

To assist in expeditiously verifying your credentials, please ensure your information is available in this database and correctly typed on your ApplyUTA application.

We also encourage you to sign up for NURSYS e-notify.

Using NURSYS you will benefit by receiving license expiration reminders, status updates to your license, and tracking your nurse license verifications for endorsement. Visit the link above to learn more about the benefits of e-notify.

Accessing Your Advising Appointment in Microsoft Teams

Step One – Get the App!

Microsoft Teams is a component of Office 365. All students, faculty and staff now have access to Office 365 and Teams. Login to Microsoft Teams with your UTA email address and NetID password.

After logging into Teams, you can download Teams to your computer by clicking the “Get App” button on the bottom left of the navigation bar on the left side of the page.

To install Teams on a mobile device, search the App store or Google Play for the “Microsoft Teams” and follow installation prompts. You will need to log in with your UTA Microsoft account credentials (UTA email account and NetID password). Functions on the mobile app will look different.

Step Two – Join Your Scheduled Appointment!

Once you have the Teams app open, click the Calendar tab in the navigation bar on the left. Next, click on the icon located in the appointment – “Join”. Join by computer or by phone.

To join by phone, dial the phone number and enter the conference ID – simply follow the instructions in the Teams meeting.

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