Who writes this, and why the incentives matter as much as the credentials
Every article here carries a named byline that resolves to an entry on this page. The more useful question about any guide, though, is not who writes it but who pays it — so that is answered first.
Who pays us
We are an independent consultation practice that has worked with nursing professionals since 2009, supporting around 9,500 of them through clinical placement and academic work. We are not a recruiter, not an agent, and not affiliated with Herzing or any school we write about.
Our work spans seventeen online nursing programmes. That is the whole reason this site can be blunt: if Herzing is wrong for your situation, one of the other sixteen is probably right, and saying so costs us nothing. A guide funded by one school does not have that freedom.
The advisers who write here
Each byline on this site belongs to one of these four. All hold a master's qualification or higher, and each writes only in their own area rather than across everything.
Elaine Voss, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC
Clinical placement lead
Twelve years placing advanced-practice students, most of them in states where preceptor supply is thin. Writes the placement and pledge-coverage material on this site, and is usually the person who tells a nurse their county is the problem rather than their application.
Curtis Odom, MSN, RN-BC
Programme adviser
Reads graduate catalogs for a living, including the parts that never reach a marketing page. Covers admissions, transfer credit and how programmes are actually structured once you are inside them.
Nadia Kowalczyk, MSN, PMHNP-BC
Behavioural health adviser
Advises nurses moving into psychiatric-mental health practice and works with students already inside these programmes, which is where the coursework and workload material here comes from.
Gareth Mulvaney, DNP, MBA
Cost and financing adviser
Models what a programme really totals on its own billing basis rather than its headline figure, and what employer tuition assistance changes about that.
Who answers live chat
Two advisers cover live chat on a rotation, so you are never talking to a name that is somehow available around the clock.
Bridget Halloran, DNP, FNP-BC
Clinical placement lead
Takes placement questions on live chat. If you want to know whether your track is covered before anything else, she is the one to ask.
Theo Brennan, MSN, PMHNP-BC
Programme adviser
Takes programme and cost questions on live chat, and will tell you plainly when a cheaper school would serve you better.
How we work, in four commitments
- We name our sources
- Figures here are the school's own published terms with the date we checked them. Where something sits in a document we cannot read, such as Herzing's Graduate Catalog, we say so rather than guessing. Always
- We say when a school is wrong for you
- Every comparison names the nurse the other school serves better. A comparison that always lands the same way is advertising. Every page
- We correct ourselves in public
- An earlier version of this site said Herzing refunds tuition if it cannot place you. It does not; it commits to securing the placement. We found it, fixed it everywhere, and left this note rather than quietly deleting it. Including this
- One call, then silence
- We call once. If it is not useful, nothing follows it. No sequence, no reassignment to a sales desk. No sequences
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