Applying for UIC College of Nursing BSN program 2011

nurselizzi · Nov 12, 2010

Im planning on apply in about a year and a half and im soooo confused about everything.....

Do you have any idea how many students are admitted each year??

And if you do not get into the UIC program are there others you can apply to with the prereqs? Or do you have to Transfer to another school and hope they will accept your credits?

StyleNurse, BSN, RN · Nov 15, 2010

Hi!

There are 80 people admitted to UIC and 64 admitted to Urbana. Regarding UIC, they are taking 40 people for early admissions and 40 for regular admissions. There were around 800 applicants last year so the odds of getting in aren't great but if you work hard and do a lot of volunteer work I'm sure you'll do fine =). I'm currently waiting for the early decision in late dec/early jan. I'm also going to apply to Resurrection University (formerly West Suburban) because the pre reqs aren't much different, just a few extra classes. A plus is that their program is accelerated. Other BSN programs are offered at North Park and Loyola. You have a lot of time to decide and plan:rolleyes:.

uic-bsn-prospect · Mar 3, 2011

hello browneyedgirl, hope you got accepted into the early admission at UIC for fall of 2011. i also applied for early admission and got accepted.

StyleNurse, BSN, RN · Mar 3, 2011

Congrats! Yeah, I also got accepted for early admission! I found out 2 days before Christmas and it was one of the best gifts ever. lol. I'm so excited and nervous. Well it'll be nice to meet you at orientation

aggiexpooh · Mar 27, 2011

in order to be accepted into the nursing program at northpark and loyola, u need to be a student at the school for at least 15 credit hrs before you can apply as a transfer student. loyola has stopped taking transfer students because they go so many of thier own students applying to nursing and they always get first priority.

for uic, u really do need to have a lot of volunteer work or hospital work under your belt, they only take the best of the best there

uic-bsn-prospect · Apr 12, 2011

Hey browneyedgirl. Have u gotten the time and dates for the orientation? I got an email that it's supposed to be on may 26th and 27th but don't know the time. Pretty exciting though. A bit nerves too.

bullielover · Apr 13, 2011

Congrats on being accepted to UIC!

I am a current junior in their nursing program and here are a few tips:

This program will CONSUME your life, so if you are working make sure it's part time and only 15 hrs a week at the most. the first 2 weeks of school will be VERY hectic and confusing note: your schedule the first 2 weeks will be different from the rest of the semester, also during the first semester you will have class every single day. 4 lectures, 2 labs and clinical every other week for the first semester. You will have a "lottery" during your orientation where you get to choose your preference for your clinical fall semester. Make sure you if you have not finished the rest of your requirements that you get C or above, (one student was accepted then did not pass a pre req class and could not start the program)

Hardest Class: Pathophysiology/Pharmacology 1

Tests are no longer memorizing and choosing the right answer. There are often 2 or more right answers and you have to use critical thinking to choose the correct answer. Your study habits WILL change. YOU WILL HAVE TO KNOW dozens and dozens of medications and what they do. It is overwhelming but you can do it! :)

Clinical: You have clinical paperwork to fill out after every week you are in clinical. It's required. It's call a CARE PLAN it is TIME CONSUMING (6 hrs or so per care plan) you must turn that in when your clinical instructor lets you know (usually 2 days after clinical) You will have to wake up EARLY. (Clinical usually start between 6 am and 7am and end around 12:30-1pm.)

p.s - your days of writing English class type papers is NOT over, you will have to write in APA format one paper for NURS 202 about a book and 2nd semester you will have to write an interview with an elder for your geriatric class.

Second semester:

4 classes still but one meets every month and it's online. Clinical will be divided by the first 7 weeks of the semester and then the last 7 weeks of the semester with a one week break from clinical in between.

If you have any questions feel free to email me at [email protected]

uic-bsn-prospect · Apr 13, 2011

Hey bullilover. I was just wondering how many days a week due you have clinacals starting off? Also, what day of the week are they usually.

bullielover · Apr 13, 2011

During the first semester you have clinical twice a week every other week.

It really depends on your clinical site. I had northwestern memorial and had clinical Thursday and Friday.

People who were at UIMC usually had clinical Tuesday and Wednesday. You will usually have class afterward.

For the rest of the program you will have clinical twice a week every week. The days depend on your clinical site.

Clinical will not interfere with the time of your classes.

uic-bsn-prospect · Apr 13, 2011

what time did you start your clinicals and how early where you supposed to get there?

bullielover · Apr 13, 2011

At Northwestern Memorial we had to be there by 6:30 AM to look up our patient and look up their condition/medications/look at their chart and listen to report. Their shift started at 7:30 AM so that's when we technically started working with the patient. We then had post conference around noon and were usually out by 12:45 because we had class at 2.

For my mental health rotation at Lutheran General, we had to be there by 7 AM to listen to report and then usually started around 7:30

Right now for my med/surg rotation at UIMC we have to be there by 6 AM Thursdays (to look up our patient, medications, etc) and 6:30 AM on Fridays.

I live in Mt. Prospect (NW Suburbs) and take the CTA so I am usually up around 4 AM if I have a Chicago clinical site. I was lucky to get Lutheran General for at least one rotation because that is only 15 minutes away from me.