Anyone Starting/Enrolled in Humber/UNB BN program?

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Hi everyone,

Just accepted an offer of admission from the Humber/UNB program here in Toronto :yeah:. I was wondering if anyone is attending or will be attending in September? If so, could you tell me everything (yes, everything lol) you like or dislike about the program? How did you adjust in your first year?

For anyone starting in Sept: What made you choose Humber?

Thanks!

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i heard humber is good and that they have the most clincal hours out of any School in ontario....other than that i dont know much about it

good luck though!

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Hey,

I'm starting the Humber/UNB program in January 2009...the 2nd entry program. I don't know a heck of a lot about it...glad to meet someone else who'll be going to Humber. I'll be going part time for a couple of pre-requisite courses from Sept. to Dec.

I actually didn't have special criteria for picking Humber, they were the only school I applied to, and they accepted me!

I went to the Humber Open House this past Saturday and took a tour of the labs. I thought it was interesting that Humber is the only College which has access to cadavers for their student's anatomy training!

I found a blog on Humber's website from a Nursing student...it gives an idea of what the program is like. I can't remember exactly how I found it, though...

Best of luck to you!:)

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omg you guys get cadavers!!! we dont - that would be an amazing opportunity for anatomy. at my school in ontario we just have anatomy lectures and NO labs...argh

Hey,

I'm starting the Humber/UNB program in January 2009...the 2nd entry program. I don't know a heck of a lot about it...glad to meet someone else who'll be going to Humber. I'll be going part time for a couple of pre-requisite courses from Sept. to Dec.

I actually didn't have special criteria for picking Humber, they were the only school I applied to, and they accepted me!

I went to the Humber Open House this past Saturday and took a tour of the labs. I thought it was interesting that Humber is the only College which has access to cadavers for their student's anatomy training!

I found a blog on Humber's website from a Nursing student...it gives an idea of what the program is like. I can't remember exactly how I found it, though...

Best of luck to you!:)

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Yes, the cadaver's will definitely enhance the learning process! I'm actually taking my anatomy and physiology by distance course at the moment...if I end up getting a transfer credit for my current course at Humber, I'll audit the lab portion of the Anatomy course...Nothing like the real thing!

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Hey,

I'm starting the Humber/UNB program in January 2009...the 2nd entry program. I don't know a heck of a lot about it...glad to meet someone else who'll be going to Humber. I'll be going part time for a couple of pre-requisite courses from Sept. to Dec.

I actually didn't have special criteria for picking Humber, they were the only school I applied to, and they accepted me!

I went to the Humber Open House this past Saturday and took a tour of the labs. I thought it was interesting that Humber is the only College which has access to cadavers for their student's anatomy training!

I found a blog on Humber's website from a Nursing student...it gives an idea of what the program is like. I can't remember exactly how I found it, though...

Best of luck to you!:)

Thanks! Yeah, my friend just finished and OTA/PTA program at Humber and she said the anatomy classes are super tough, but the cadavers helped her to understand a lot. I honestly can't wait to start, I just wish I could talk to some people that have already attended just to get some perspective, but honest to God I have found no one, lol. But I did the search for the blog and found it, pretty interesting actually.

Good luck to you too and maybe we will see each other! lol

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HI, should i upgrade my chem mark (63) in order to get accepted at humber?? help! my average is 76.. i would hv to take night school if i need to since im out if school for a yr,,,need ur advice pls, i really want to become a nurse!!

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HI, should i upgrade my chem mark (63) in order to get accepted at humber?? help! my average is 76.. i would hv to take night school if i need to since im out if school for a yr,,,need ur advice pls, i really want to become a nurse!!

a 76 will probably get you into Humber and any other college site that is part of a collaborative program. I suggest you apply to Humber, Centennial, George Brown, Seneca and Durham/UOIT. If you want to start at a university, upgrade your mark. Actually, it wouldn't hurt you to upgrade it anyway.

Good luck

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Hi all,

I just got accepted to the second entry nursing program @ Humber College. Can anyone who has been through the program please tell me what are the typical class times in the prep semester and also for parking which block is easiest and shorter to classes?

Thanks much.

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Ok, here I go......

I won't identify myself, but having spent 2 years in the Humber/UnB program and having left it, I can only speak

about my own experience and if others have different ones, then please post them.

First let me say that Humber takes in about 300 nursing students per/year and the logistical nightmares this creates seems to be one that Humber has problems with and it does not get better with time. Don't count on any schedule being firm until at least after the first 2 weeks or so. At least after the first semester you will get to choose usually 1 out of 5 or 6 different schedules but you will not always get your first choice of clinicals as there is a set time that everyone in the program tries to log into to get their favorite clinical locations and it usually crashes so some end up having to go all the way across the city becuase they could not get in fast enough to get a good location for them. Having said that classes normally can run from 8am to I believe 6pm and I even had classes up to 8pm becuase they had too many students to fit into the labs during the day. Not sure if this happens alot, just my experience. There are alot of new teachers coming and going at Humber for clinicals and some have very little experience in the actuall field they are teaching in becuase Humber has to hire many of their clincial instructors on a part time basis because the instructors work full time at the hospitals. Because of this I find they throw the new instructors in and see if they can survive with as little training as possible and although many are great at their jobs they are not all that great at being instructors.

That being said, Humber has the reputation of graduating the best nursing students becasue it's in my belief that only the best students can make it through the program and the rest who might make great nurses, will not survive because they can't cope with all the stress of the course along with all the problems that the school creates for the students. Yes they have some really great teachers, but sadly they are few and far between in the nursing course. Great school for equipment, labs, but I am now looking at starting the whole thing over at another school just becuase I just could not deal with Humber anymore. BTW, there are many who crack in the program becuase they expect to get straight A's in the program....ROTFL. If you can't deal with not getting straight A's then maybe this is not the shcool for you. Some teachers just don't believe that you can get an A because as a nursing student you can't possibly know it all so how can you be graded as perfect. I had my share of A's but just as many B's in courses that I felt I should have had A's. Also, almost every course has group assignments so the chances of a group getting an A when there are always those who don't do their work is about zero. Get used to touching people quick. You will have to touch your classmates in clinicals with their shirts off ( you'll have some privacy behind curtains but you will work in groups of 2-4) so if that makes you uncomfortable then maybe nursing is not for you. Yes there are actually 2 cadav's usually one male/female, although you will not get much exposure to them. You will get to see the internals during a couple of lab periods.

Now the fun stuff. When they say not to work more than 8 hours/week, take them seriously!!!!! If you have any sort of life outside of school you can tell them you'll see them in May when school is out. I know many in the program who survive on only 5-6 hours sleep a day because otherwise you will not get what needs to be done completed.

I don't mean to come across as harsh on Humber, maybe it's the same everywhere else, but I just felt that Humber is more concerned about it's reputation for the best grad's rather then helping those who want to make it survive their gruelling system for it's students. I will gladly answer all your questions if you have others but please consider not everyones experience will be the same but I would say that 50% of nursing students at Humber would agree with my experiences. Good luck. Please excuse my long run on sentence structure and bad typing/grammer. Just trying to get the info out there for you.

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I think it's the same in other schools, I'm not from Humber, it's the same for me. It's not that bad, cause nursing is different from other programs

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