This is my first time posting, but I have been on Allnurses for a couple of years now! I really appreciate this community, as you all helped me to get through my prereqs and pass the teas 6.
I have applied to College of Marin's Fall 2017 ADN program, and I'm reaching out to see who else is applying there as well.
In addition to College of Marin, I had to cast a wide net for schools--I also applied to about 9 other schools in and around the area.
I would love to set up a thread so we can keep in contact with each other....I think we start to hear back in April/May.
Good luck to everyone who is applying this round, and I hope you get into your top school!
So from what I can tell, you will be having lecture on Monday and Thursday from around 9:00-12:00ish. You will have clinicals in the hospital on Tuesday and Wednesday either in the morning or the afternoon/evening. You will also have a clinical skills lab either on Monday or Thursday after lecture. Lastly, you will have Pharmacology lecture likely on Thursdays in the late afternoon (this class is only for the first 8 weeks of the semester). I wish I could give you exact times, but I do not have access to your completed schedule. You can view times on MyCom Portal where you normally register for classes, but the times listed there are tentative and subject to change.
Angela will be splitting everyone evenly into four clinical groups. That will likely be the group you will be with for the rest of the program. I will go ahead and say any requests to be placed into a specific group, at a specific hospital, or to change groups later will be denied by the administration. You get what you get and the best advice I can offer is to make the best of it and really get to know the people you are assigned with, as you will be spending a lot of time together. The first semester you will have Fundamentals, Med/Surg I, and Pharmacology I lectures with your entire cohort. Your in-hospital clinicals and your skills labs will be with your assigned clinical group. I believe the hospitals they are sending the first years to during first semester are Kaiser Terra Linda, Marin General Hospital, and St. Luke's in San Francisco.
They used to place you based on where you live, but I don't think they are doing that anymore. They didn't do that for our cohort. And it doesn't matter much anyways. Every group will end up having clinicals Marin, San Francisco, Oakland, and maybe even Santa Rosa thoroughout your rotations.
I would email one of the reps and ask if they think they will start another session following your first year. For our cohort, they had a session starting the month before classes started at COM, over our first winter break, and they are about to start a new session for our cohort next week. We had a lot of people apply to Sonoma State who didn't get in and they decided to go with Phoenix instead.
Angela will be emailing you a document that will show who is in your clinical group, exactly which classes to register for, and which hospital you will be at your first semester. I would imagine she will send it by the end of June or early July.
Would anyone who got into the Fall 2017 nursing program at COM be kind enough to share the cutoff date for confirming acceptance? It would greatly help me in determining whether or not to accept SRJC, or wait to see if a spot opens up at COM
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Thank you mgh3478! I need to set up child care for next year, so specifics on the schedule would be really helpful.