UMSON BSN Fall 2013

U.S.A. Maryland

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Hello everyone! It's my first time posting on this website. Just wanted to see who else is applying for the BSN program for Fall 2013? Any advice for new applicants? :)

So I just checked last year's umson forum and looks like the admissions office notify students over a period of at least a week.. so I haven't lost hope! I'll just have to sit tight :T

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Hi everyone! I'm a first semester student at the Baltimore campus and I just wanted to say congrats to everyone who's gotten in so far! I remember how excited I was when I got my acceptance not too long ago and how many questions I had. Feel free to message me with any questions you have about classes and whatnot! Also, it's a little while away but I just wanted to invite everyone to join the UMSON textbook group as well if you wanted to get used textbooks (which I highly recommend): https://www.facebook.com/groups/417729608298302/

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Anyluck yet? I still can't believe I haven't heard anything yet!

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My status is still say "committee ready" :( Anybody get the good news from UMSON Shady Grove yet?

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Yes, I didn't follow my own advice about not checking obsessively. I also just got the call from UMSON.

JulieBeans, congrats! which campus you got into?

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Thank you very much! I got into the Baltimore campus. I'm not looking forward to driving in the city, but it's worth the commute :)

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Good for you! I keep checking my status and wait for the call, but nothing happend? Wonder why it takes them so long to response back. Feel hopeless now :(

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amc074,

Because I haven't participated in enough posts, allnurses won't enable me to send messages. I was hoping you could tell me a little bit about each of the lab, assessment, and module sections of the 304 lab section.

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I'm driving myself crazy waiting to find out! Does anybody know when they will be done telling everybody? I got 98th percentile on the TEAS, I have a 3.7 GPA, my recommendations were far better than I expected, and my status has been committee ready for MONTHS now. My last name begins with a "W", do you think they are notifying people alphabetically?

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In Baltimore, we have a lab section for both Health Assessment (Nurs 333) and Fundamentals (Nurs 304) (which we call Fundies). These take place in our simulation labs. In Health Assessment lab you work on one body system each week, learning how to perform the exam and document your findings. The point is to learn how to do a comprehensive head to toe assessment, which you will eventually demonstrate on a standardized patient (who is an actor) in the exam room simulation lab. You will also have various times where you will have to perform things like vital signs or an assessment on one body system leading up to the head to toe final so you get experience with the skills and lessen your nerves on performing these skills on real people. You will also have little homework exercises to do each week. The grades you get in this lab will be combined with your grades in Health Assessment lecture to give you one Health Assessment grade. In Fundies you basically learn all of the CNA and basic nursing skills. So you start with things like bed baths, transfers, and wound care and then move on to things like medication administration, catheters, and tracheostomy care. At the end of the semester you get your CNA license so long as you get a C or above in the Fundies course. There isn't really any homework assignments you need to turn in but you will have to do online quizzes most weeks related to the lab and then brief papers at a couple of points. Like Health Assessment you will have checkpoints where you have to perform skills. These are called validations. I don't want to overload people with information too much but in these you walk into a room, are handed a scenario which will include between 1 and 3 random skills you have learned and then you are videotaped doing these skills. Your lab teacher reviews the video and lets you know if you passed or failed. We don't get grades for these and honestly it's not a big deal if you have to revalidate other than having to spend practice time in an open lab and then the 30 or so minutes itself to do the revalidation.

For me I had both of these labs on the same day of the week with one for two hours in the morning and the other for two hours in the afternoon. The number of people in lab with you varies depending on what group you're in (it's always small like less than 10) but you will be with the same group of people for both labs for the whole semester and then likely for clinicals first semester too. These labs are the same for every student with the only difference being time and instructor(s). Some people chose to register for a group that had Health Assessment lab on Mondays after our Health Assessment lecture and then Fundies lab on Tuesdays after Fundies and Research lectures. For these people it meant longer days but one day less a week of having to come to school for scheduled class.

This week is our first week of clinicals. Once clinicals start you will not go to labs anymore. For some people clinical is on the same day they had lab, for others it's on a different day. Many people are with the same group of students and the same instructor they had for their labs. Also, clinical sites and groups are assigned to you just for first semester, but like I said you are usually at least with the same group of people, you just don't get to pick where you go.

Starting about a month into school we also had what is called communication module, which is a component of Fundies, for 4 consecutive weeks on Monday afternoons. There are several sections of this that they will divide the class up into and give you your group once school has started (these groups are around 20 students). The communication teachers are different for each section but other than that the same information is taught, we all write the same papers, and are graded on the same rubrics. This seminar is where you will learn how to communicate with patients. After the last week you will sign up for a time to do a patient interview in the exam room simulation labs on standardized patients. This is another pass/fail type of thing but I'm pretty sure most people pass because they prepare you very well. If someone did fail though you would just have to do if again but it wouldn't affect your grade at all.

That ended up being a lot of information but just in case there were other people who were interested in knowing how things worked I put it all out there!

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Waitlisted!:confused:

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I didn't make it this year, ladies :\ good luck everyone!

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