Anyone Starting At UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing?

kellyjo1414 · Jun 17, 2009

Has anyone gotten their accptance letter for full time yet? I took my PSB in early February and had all my materials in by the end of March. I haven't heard anything but Natalie did say that I would hear back within two weeks from the beinning of June. Just a little anxious, that's all.

nocheapones · Jun 17, 2009

I haven't gotten an acceptance or rejection letter yet. I applied much later than you (right before the deadline), but am also feeling anxious. Good luck, I hope we both get good news soon. :up:

j.mil314 · Jun 17, 2009

i talked to natalie and joann and they both said full time is completely full, no spots left. to the person who asked, my high school GPA was a 3.9 and my college GPA from two years at WVU was a 3.8. and yes, joanne said it IS possible to transfer from part time to full time part way through although it can be difficult to find a spot. she said that would take 3 years where as full time would be 2 and part would be 4. so idk. not what i was hoping but better than nothing. if you're worried about your application call natalie or joann. it wouldnt hurt to check up on things, it seems they are quite unorganized.

nocheapones · Jun 17, 2009

it wouldnt hurt to check up on things, it seems they are quite unorganized.

Haha, that's no joke. With their reputation, I actually am subconsciously expecting that they didn't have all the pieces of my application together on time.

Jean1313 · Jun 17, 2009

Just wanted to stop by and say good luck to everyone! I graduated in 2007, RN now almost 2 years now. It's a great clinical program, you will see and learn so much!

kellyjo1414 · Jun 18, 2009

Thanks, Good luck to you! Let me know if you hear anything. I'll do the same.

nocheapones · Jun 18, 2009

Thanks, Good luck to you! Let me know if you hear anything. I'll do the same.

I'm not sure if you were talking to me, but I will for sure update when I know something :wink2:

r0b0tafflicti0n · Jun 19, 2009

Alright. I talked to Joanne and she said shadyside requires anyone whos taken a nursing class from another school to be interviewed before being admitted, so thats why she needed to talk to me. Since my grades at WVU were so good she knew i didn't drop out or anything, so she didn't make me have an interview, she just asked me over the phone why I want to transfer. Well, everything is all good and I'll be getting my evening/weekend acceptance letter in about a week she said. Wish I would have applied early enough to be full time, but I'll deal with it somehow.

Congrats, at the orientation she told a guy that you can transfer to full-time next semester if you want to.

j.mil314 · Jun 19, 2009

thanks :) i certainly hope it is that easy. i'm not interested in spending 4 years there just to get a diploma. i don't really have any reason to be part time. school is my main focus right now.

audreyrasmusson · Jun 22, 2009

I plan to take the PSB next month and apply for January. So, here's my question: I am a single parent with no family in the area. I have thought of offering a free room with kitchen/laundry privileges to a student at one of the universities or the community college in exchange for that person being able to "cover" during my clinical hours. Our house is close to U Pitt, Carnegie Mellon U and two other private universities. In other words, I need someone to get my daughter through breakfast and onto the bus, if I get a 6:00 a.m. shift one semester, or pick her up from her after-school program and supervise homework/bedtime if I am assigned to an evening shift another semester. (Shadyside does not allow "hardship" requests for specific clinical rotations or scheduling accommodations.) My daughter is a 12 y.o. bookworm, extremely quiet, even a bit shy. She has a learning disability, but at home it mainly amounts to needing a lot of reminders to get things done.

Any thoughts? Does this sound like a viable option? Could I improve on it in some way?

Thanks.

Audrey

r0b0tafflicti0n · Jun 22, 2009

I plan to take the PSB next month and apply for January. So, here's my question: I am a single parent with no family in the area. I have thought of offering a free room with kitchen/laundry privileges to a student at one of the universities or the community college in exchange for that person being able to "cover" during my clinical hours. Our house is close to U Pitt, Carnegie Mellon U and two other private universities. In other words, I need someone to get my daughter through breakfast and onto the bus, if I get a 6:00 a.m. shift one semester, or pick her up from her after-school program and supervise homework/bedtime if I am assigned to an evening shift another semester. (Shadyside does not allow "hardship" requests for specific clinical rotations or scheduling accommodations.) My daughter is a 12 y.o. bookworm, extremely quiet, even a bit shy. She has a learning disability, but at home it mainly amounts to needing a lot of reminders to get things done.
Any thoughts? Does this sound like a viable option? Could I improve on it in some way?
Thanks.
Audrey

Well, you won't be assigned clinicals at different times like that. You're either in the daytime program (M-F 8-4-ish?) or Evening/Weekend, and your clinicals will be scheduled during those hours. I am a single parent, and I plan to have my son in daycare during school hours (I am in the daytime program). I am also planning to work at Presby (I've been talking with a recruiter), so if I work evenings/weekends I may have to switch his daycare. He's not in school yet so I won't have to arrange that yet.

Does your daughter's school have a before-school program? Maybe you could just do the daytime program and drop her off at school early if your school starts earlier than hers?

audreyrasmusson · Jun 23, 2009

Thanks for that information. I'm applying to the daytime/full-time program. The recruiter at the nursing school told me that clinicals can start as early as 6:00 a.m. I assume they could go as late as 6:00 or 7:00 pm. Does that sound about right?

My daughter's school has no before-school program. However, she's normally on the bus by 7:00 a.m., so I guess this would only be a problem if I were assigned to a clinical that started between, say, 6:00 and 7:30 a.m. You are smart to use a daycare, because they don't have all the closing dates for school holidays, etc. and you an usually pay an extra per diem for a before/after school kid to be there for the occasional full day. I haven't found a daycare that takes kids over age 11. Daycares may be expensive, but I have fond memories of those years when I always knew that my duaghter had a place to go where she knew everyone even on days when there was no school.

When I was 12, my alarm woke me at 6:00 a.m. I was dressed and out the door by 7:00 to ride the city buses to school while my parents still slept. What a different world that was. Of course, it wasn't as though I were alone in the house. But -- now we're really talking about fond memories! -- a time and place where even first graders could wait at bus stops unattended or walk to school on their own because crimes against children were so rare. I was on my own for getting to school in the city itself (!) from second grade through the end of high school. Sometimes there no other kids waiting at my bus stop. Imagine, in all those years neither my sis nor I were ever approached by strangers, nor were our schools/parents giving out warnings because of it happening to other kids. If only we could give our kids that world...

Audrey