ASU Post-Baccalaureate BSN 2017 - Welcome

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Hey everyone,

I am a current post-bacc student at ASU. I wanted to start a thread for all of you who are applying for the 2017 class. Last year we had amazing support from the 2015 class, so we wanted to carry on that tradition and provide you all with the same support system. Feel free to use this thread to ask questions and seek advice. Many of my classmates will be on here answering your questions as well!

Good luck to you all!

Thank you for starting this thread to assist us.

I am curious if anyone has heard anything from the advisors or the school this week?

I have heard from previous students that they were notified as early as the last week of October. So I was kind of hoping that would be the case for us. Especially since there were not that many applicants this year as there have been in the previous years.

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@horsegirl7575 - I can't speak for all of the changes as we only experienced a few of them. The changes that were implemented in our class mainly involved ATI, which is an online testing center that helps prepare you for the NCLEX. They have been making adjustments throughout the semester, so I don't want to give you the details of our class in the event that it changes for yours.

With regard to the lectures, the information is usually made available online prior to class. However, each professor has their own style. Some professors liked to open the shells by week while others opened the entire semester. The same can be said with regard to attendance as well. I believe most professors had at least a day or two that were required, some took attendance, and some had pop quizzes to monitor attendance. The professor will explain what their requirements are on syllabus day.

The amount of hours for lectures and clinical changed by the semester and the class. I listed my schedule below but the schedule slightly changes between each PB Group (clinical group).

Spring: (Some students had clinical on Thursday and lab on Tuesday)

Monday: Class 9-11:20, Tuesday: Clinical, Wednesday: Class 9-11:20 & 1:30-4:20, Thursday: Lab, Friday: class 9-11:20

Summer: (online class throughout the semester)

Session A (Psych): Monday: Class 8:35-12:35, Tuesday: 8:35-12:35 (sometimes class 1:25-4:10), Wednesday: Clinical 7:00-3:00, Thursday: Clinical 7:00-3:00, Friday: Lab 7:10-11:30

Session B (OB): Monday: Class 8:35-12:35, Tuesday: Class 8:35-12:35, Wednesday-Friday: Clinical or lab

Session C (Peds): Monday: Class 8:35-12:35, Tuesday: Class 8:35-12:35, Wednesday-Friday: Clinical or lab

Fall: (One online class the entire semester, two other online classes that are either session A or B depending on what you sign up for)

First half: Monday: Clinical, Tuesday-Wednesday: Clinical or Lab, Thursday: Class 7:00-9:45, Friday: 7:30-10:15 and Class 11:50-2:50

Second half: Monday: clinical, Friday: Class 11:50-2:50, the remaining days of the week are dedicated to your immersion schedule. That schedule is made between you and a nurse that will be your preceptor. Therefore, everyones is different.

I hope that helps and isn't too confusing. For a quick overview, spring semester we spent most of the time at Downtown ASU, summer was VERY fast but you only focus on one subject/class at a time, and the second half of fall was dependent on your schedule.

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This is extremely helpful. Thanks so much for posting it!

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I went and looked it up and 2 years ago acceptance emails went out Oct 29. Last year it was Nov 4.

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Thank you for this! One more question regarding your schedule... are you ever required to do clinicals over the weekend? The video said it may be required but I was just curious if it does ever occur?

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I went and looked it up and 2 years ago acceptance emails went out Oct 29. Last year it was Nov 4.

Thank you! So the pattern seems to be the first Wednesday after 8 weeks from the application deadline (so long as the Wednesday doesn't immediately follow the 8 week end mark). If so, then we should get our letters Nov 2 :)

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BSBio2BSN - I believe that there were a few rotations throughout the year that were on the weekend. However, clinical days are dependent on the hospital availability and could be totally different for you guys! The example I am thinking of from our class was when the normal rotation was 2 days during the week and the group had 1 weekend rotation that was longer. I don't think weekend rotations were very common though.

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BSBio2BSN - I believe that there were a few rotations throughout the year that were on the weekend. However, clinical days are dependent on the hospital availability and could be totally different for you guys! The example I am thinking of from our class was when the normal rotation was 2 days during the week and the group had 1 weekend rotation that was longer. I don't think weekend rotations were very common though.

Thank you jshirleyjasper! I was thinking weekends were rare too since usually hospitals are short-staffed during that time. This is all helpful information!

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BSBio2BSN - No problem! We are all here to help :)

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What time did clinicals and Lab usually go from? How are the 12 hour shifts at the hospital? Do they make you stay the entire time? How many 12 hour shifts does everybody do?

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horsegirl7575 - Most of them generally start around 0700 for shift change so you have to be there prior to that. I usually had to meet my advisor/FOR around 0645. The required hours all vary based on the class requirements and hospital availablilty. For example, I believe one group had a 12 hour shift when the rest of us had 10 hour shifts, but they had less shifts than us so that we all had the same amount of clinical hours. However, they didn't just throw us into a 12 hour clinical right from the start. I believe the spring semester we did 6 hours, summer session A was 8 hours, summer session B was 8 hours, summer session C was 10 hours and the fall was 12 hour clinical. Our specific requirements for combined clinical and lab times are below:

NUR 366 (M/S) 270 hr

Psych 90

Peds 90

OB 90

Community Health 90

Critical Care 90

Immersion 90

However, I do not know if this is changing in the future, so I would just use this as a guide. If a clinical rotation is scheduled for 10 hours, you will be there the entire time. In my opinion, as I can't speak for my classmates, I didn't think that the 12 hour shift was difficult. You are definitely tired at the end, but since they slowly build you up throughout the semester it wasn't too bad.

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So for spring semester, on Monday's and Fridays we're done at 11:20?

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