My fellow nursing prospects, I hope CASPer treated you well. Any idea when we find out if we’ve gotten in? What did you all apply with?
As per the advisors at BCIT, I’m in the 8%’ers—I only have 32 credits, my cGPA is 3.6 but my overall GPA is lower because of two classes I was unable to complete over 10 years ago; however I’ve been a nuclear medicine tech for 12 years. I applied for nursing on a whim so let’s see what happens!
Hey! I noticed your posts on some of the forums and wanted to say thanks for all the helpful information! It really helped me with my application to BCIT. Do you know how they mark the non-cog quiz and what they take into consideration? I recently just did mine for the fall intake and I can't tell if I did well or if I completely bombed it lol. I've been thinking about it nonstop
Haha np, just helping out where I can. For the questionnaire I would assume you’re talking about, I believe it’s marked based on whether or not you show aspects of what a competent nurse would do. For example, say you had a question asking you to talk about a time you were in a stressful situation (like at work). My approach would be to mention the stressful situation (so like a lost child at an attraction) and then mention the steps you took in that situation and the final part being reflection on the situation. That’s probably the most important part because it shows that you are able to look back at things and see where you could improve. (This is an actual example of a situation that happened for me that I used in my questionnaire). But I also understand that some questions may be harder to answer like this but it’s mostly just answer the question then self reflection (what did you learn, what can you improve on, what did you learn about yourself) that sort of thing.
hope this helps, this basically my take on it because the first time I did it, I just answered the question as it was given to me and did terrible and the second time I did it, I did it with the reflections and I did a lot better
Haha np, just helping out where I can. For the questionnaire I would assume you’re talking about, I believe it’s marked based on whether or not you show aspects of what a competent nurse would do. For example, say you had a question asking you to talk about a time you were in a stressful situation (like at work). My approach would be to mention the stressful situation (so like a lost child at an attraction) and then mention the steps you took in that situation and the final part being reflection on the situation. That’s probably the most important part because it shows that you are able to look back at things and see where you could improve. (This is an actual example of a situation that happened for me that I used in my questionnaire). But I also understand that some questions may be harder to answer like this but it’s mostly just answer the question then self reflection (what did you learn, what can you improve on, what did you learn about yourself) that sort of thing.
hope this helps, this basically my take on it because the first time I did it, I just answered the question as it was given to me and did terrible and the second time I did it, I did it with the reflections and I did a lot better
That helps a lot, thank you soo much! I think I did okay on the situational questions but its just the morality/ethics questions that I kind of froze on. I'm not sure if I answered those with enough detail. Fingers crossed though!
That helps a lot, thank you soo much! I think I did okay on the situational questions but its just the morality/ethics questions that I kind of froze on. I'm not sure if I answered those with enough detail. Fingers crossed though!
For ethics, yeah it’s tough, but if your answers are consistent then you should be fine. And what I mean by consistent is that you do something for one person, you have to do it for everyone else, so that should help you in your decision making process basically.
I just found out that if you take the LIBS courses you will be charged double. As in you pay to take them prior to your program entry and then pay again once you are in the program. Reason is that you are not paying tuition per course but for the entire program itself when enrolled. This information came from BCIT when I called them. Wowsers!
I just found out that if you take the LIBS courses you will be charged double. As in you pay to take them prior to your program entry and then pay again once you are in the program. Reason is that you are not paying tuition per course but for the entire program itself when enrolled. This information came from BCIT when I called them. Wowsers!
Wrong, whoever told you that does not know what they’re talking about. The tuition you pay every term is toward nursing courses and nursing courses alone. Although the two LIBS courses are part of the nursing program, they are separate from the tuition. Even if you didn’t take it prior to the nursing program, when you go into term 2 and term 5, you have to self register for LIBS 7001 and LIBS 7002/LIBS 7021, respectively. So you pay for those courses on top of your tuition. They are a requirement of the program, but not included in the tuition for the program.
I just found out that if you take the LIBS courses you will be charged double. As in you pay to take them prior to your program entry and then pay again once you are in the program. Reason is that you are not paying tuition per course but for the entire program itself when enrolled. This information came from BCIT when I called them. Wowsers!
Hi there! I am currently a science student at UBC, heading into my second year in September. I was just wondering if any of you can comment on the new BCIT Nursing curriculum? I know they changed it a few years ago, and was just wondering if it's better or worse now, especially compared to the other programs in Vancouver, such as UBC or Langara? Also, how many clinical hours do you get? Thank you! ?
Hi there! I am currently a science student at UBC, heading into my second year in September. I was just wondering if any of you can comment on the new BCIT Nursing curriculum? I know they changed it a few years ago, and was just wondering if it's better or worse now, especially compared to the other programs in Vancouver, such as UBC or Langara? Also, how many clinical hours do you get? Thank you! ?
Hello,
I find the new curriculum to be very good. But given I have no experience in the old curriculum, my answer is biased. We are currently being taught using a concept based approach, and I find this to be pretty good because as a nurse, we aren’t there to give a formal diagnosis, but rather to understand what’s going on with our patients so we can understand what care to provide. Example, in term 1 you learn about perfusion, gas exchange, Mobility, etc. And you have to understand how each on these concepts can affect each other. I find it pretty useful imo, and by understanding these concepts I’m able to understand my patient.
As for clinical hours, you start off with 99 hours in term 1 and it goes up from there. It’s less in term 1 compared to other terms because they want to teach you some concepts before bringing Clinicals in so you know what to observe in your clients.
wizkid1, BSN, RN
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Haha np, just helping out where I can. For the questionnaire I would assume you’re talking about, I believe it’s marked based on whether or not you show aspects of what a competent nurse would do. For example, say you had a question asking you to talk about a time you were in a stressful situation (like at work). My approach would be to mention the stressful situation (so like a lost child at an attraction) and then mention the steps you took in that situation and the final part being reflection on the situation. That’s probably the most important part because it shows that you are able to look back at things and see where you could improve. (This is an actual example of a situation that happened for me that I used in my questionnaire). But I also understand that some questions may be harder to answer like this but it’s mostly just answer the question then self reflection (what did you learn, what can you improve on, what did you learn about yourself) that sort of thing.
hope this helps, this basically my take on it because the first time I did it, I just answered the question as it was given to me and did terrible and the second time I did it, I did it with the reflections and I did a lot better