VintageSwagger

VintageSwagger has 4 years experience and specializes in Neonatal, NICU level IV.

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1. Sacramento State Spring 2016 Application

   VintageSwagger replied to coolmommy99's topic in California

   Hey Krich72, All transcripts have to be official regardless of what they are for (college, GED, etc..)

2. Sacramento State (CSUS) Fall 2015 applications

   VintageSwagger replied to Dannydgk's topic in California

   Hey fatrabbit, I believe the foreign language requirement is waived for nursing students. As far as the 9 upper GE classes... When I was there the writing intensive class included in the nursing curriculum satisfied 3 of those units and the othe...

3. Sacramento State (CSUS) Fall 2015 applications

   VintageSwagger replied to Dannydgk's topic in California

   I am not sure but I will try to help you... First, no one who is an alternate will have more points than someone accepted. The cut off for any semester is the last person admitted in that pool. For example: if the 75th person accepted has 80 ...

4. Sacramento State (CSUS) Fall 2015 applications

   VintageSwagger replied to Dannydgk's topic in California

   As far as commuting... It depends on where you live. Hospitals are in Roseville, downtown, and off Mather Blvd. Mental health has some in Sacramento and some in Davis (yes the city of Davis). Community health can take you all the way out in Woodland...

5. Sacramento State (CSUS) Fall 2015 applications

   VintageSwagger replied to Dannydgk's topic in California

   12 hours in one day.

6. Sacramento State (CSUS) Fall 2015 applications

   VintageSwagger replied to Dannydgk's topic in California

   Sl_94 and fatrrabbit, Wow… That is a lot to summarize. Clinicals – Clinicals take place at facilities across the Sacramento area. UCDMC, Mercy, Sutter, Kaiser, VA, and various community and mental health hospitals. Each institution has its pos...

7. Sacramento State (CSUS) Fall 2015 applications

   VintageSwagger replied to Dannydgk's topic in California

   Keen, If you can manage, I would recommend not working at all. If you absolutely have to, I would try to keep it

8. Sacramento State (CSUS) Fall 2015 applications

   VintageSwagger replied to Dannydgk's topic in California

   Dannydgk, Money: Cost is +/- $16,000.00 over the 2 years. I will try to break down some of it for you in order to give you an idea of what you are looking at. Tuition/Lab fees: 3300 per semester Books: ...

9. Males working in the NICU?

   VintageSwagger replied to cph1993's topic in NICU

   Yeah, what Zeus said... me either. My level IV rarely if ever has feeder growers.

10. Sacramento State (CSUS) Fall 2015 applications

    VintageSwagger replied to Dannydgk's topic in California

    ClaudiaMoss, 1. I would call them sooner than later. You are at the whim of their schedule so you would want the most options. They are usually pretty good about it though. The test doesn't take a long time; they are pretty quick about discerning ...

11. Sacramento State (CSUS) Fall 2015 applications

    VintageSwagger replied to Dannydgk's topic in California

    Ryno, The timeline is relatively accurate. There is only a small group of people processing all of the applications and cross checking information. I have never seen the emails come after a stated timeframe; though they have come in the evenin...

12. Sacramento State (CSUS) Fall 2015 applications

    VintageSwagger replied to Dannydgk's topic in California

    Hello all, I am a graduate from SacState's nursing program and I spent a few years helping with pre-nursing advising. I have been commenting on SacState posts for previous semesters in order to offer help with answering questions where I can. ...

13. Applying to Sacramento State for spring 2015 question

    VintageSwagger replied to sj94's topic in California

    They have combined classes to make up the current structure but it is essentially the same. 111 - This is a lecture class covering nursing theroy, major contributors to the profession, professionalism etc... 112 - This is your Medsurg class. Your c...

14. Males working in the NICU?

    VintageSwagger replied to cph1993's topic in NICU

    I think you should follow what you are passionate about. I never hesitated pursuing NICU because I knew it is what I wanted to do and the fact that i was the only male on a very large unit didn't bother me. Like others have said, almost every exper...

15. Applying to Sacramento State for spring 2015 question

    VintageSwagger replied to sj94's topic in California

    The clinicals are different every semester... 1st semester - Medsurg: You all get thrown in to where ever they place you. 2nd semester - ICU/mental health: You will be given a list of clinicals that pair mental health and a hospital together. You g...