Direct Entry MSN 2020 at Columbia University

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Hello Everyone, The applications for June 2020 at Columbia University has now opened. I haven't seen any new threads for this year so I wanted to start one. I am in the process of applying and half way done! References already sent their recommendations!! and an upside to this year is that Columbia University is no longer requiring the GRE. SO I am pretty happy about that!!

Good Luck!

Anyone else extremely concerned that the fall semester could be online as well?

Its one thing to complete the Summer session online, but if half of the program were to be online I would feel extremely concerned about the education I am receiving. I know we don't know what's to come in the next few months and I hate to speculate, but I am hesitant to commit to this program without knowing if I will be getting the full experience out of it.

Thoughts?

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I am sort of worried but if they went online in the fall, it means most other schools would to...but I think by September we should good, or at least be able to go back outside. I see lockdown ending soon.

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I mean... Columbia isn’t the only nursing program. If they were to make Fall 2020 online, it’s likely a lot of other nursing programs will be following suit

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From the webinar that they hosted last week, it sounded like they are confident/optimistic that we will be in hospitals by the fall, but if not, then we will front-load more of our final didactic courses into the fall term, and do mostly just clinical in the final two semesters. While that's not ideal, it's definitely still the same coursework and clinical experience, just in a different arrangement, and it's hard to know how likely that even is. I imagine that many nursing schools will be facing the same challenges, so it's no guarantee that choosing another school won't mean the same outcome. I have a friend in PA school in Washington State and they postponed her clinicals and graduation during the height of their outbreak, but have since set a return date of June 1, so they will all go back and graduation is delayed by about two months. My guess is that we will be able to go into hospitals in the fall and we will probably just have to be very flexible as I could see certain clinical sites opening and closing to students depending on their COVID-19 caseloads at any given time, so it may not be the traditional Columbia experience, but it will be a really interesting time to be in nursing school, especially in NY. I live in NYC already so for me the decision is a bit easier. I definitely feel for those of you who would need to sort out how to relocate here during all this chaos, so I could see that being a factor, if you had options closer to home right now. Personally, I was impressed by the warmth and care from the faculty and how it seemed like they were really taking a student-centered approach to their contingency plans, so I am really hopeful that it will be a great experience in the end.

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While the online learning/uncertainty certainly suck, I also agree that nursing school everywhere is going to be a hot mess for a while -- so I'm trying to embrace the upside of how interesting and unique this will make the experience overall as a nursing student already here in NYC.

I'm an older student -- and a career-switcher from an industry that's definitely on the decline/made way worse by the pandemic. So for me, moving forward this Summer is a relatively easy choice. But if I was young, a fresh bachelor's graduate and coming out of state, I think I would defer my nursing school start a year or two if it was possible to do other work/even still get some kind of meaningful medical experience or volunteer in the meantime.

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32 minutes ago, amandaruizu said:

I am sort of worried but if they went online in the fall, it means most other schools would to...but I think by September we should good, or at least be able to go back outside. I see lockdown ending soon.

Man oh man I hope ? you’re right! I miss everything about the world ? we once knew.

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Just my two cents - I think the lecture classes will probably still be online since they will still be encouraging some sort of social distancing. However we will start having small size in-person clinical rotations, study group, and simulation. Keep in mind that since we are consider to be part of the medical campus, some of the rules that would apply to the undergraduate class will not apply to us. In order word, it's much easier to control social distancing within the medical campus compare to the main campus university. Also, I don't think the medical campus have the luxury of continue postponing their medical school clinical rotations (current 2nd and 3rd year) especially with the shortage of healthcare workers. Overall, lecture classes might still be online but clinical rotation will start in October at the latest. Also, Columbia Nursing school is one of the very few schools to allow their students to participate in helping out with the hospital during this crisis. Hope this help make people feel a bit better.

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1 hour ago, MaleNP said:

Just my two cents - I think the lecture classes will probably still be online since they will still be encouraging some sort of social distancing. However we will start having small size in-person clinical rotations, study group, and simulation. Keep in mind that since we are consider to be part of the medical campus, some of the rules that would apply to the undergraduate class will not apply to us. In order word, it's much easier to control social distancing within the medical campus compare to the main campus university. Also, I don't think the medical campus have the luxury of continue postponing their medical school clinical rotations (current 2nd and 3rd year) especially with the shortage of healthcare workers. Overall, lecture classes might still be online but clinical rotation will start in October at the latest. Also, Columbia Nursing school is one of the very few schools to allow their students to participate in helping out with the hospital during this crisis. Hope this help make people feel a bit better.

Not quite @MaleNP as a current mde student stated the now class of 2019-2020 did volunteer to help for seven weeks as nurse techs etc. so these students are in fact , screening people in the hospital by taking temperatures or other vitals needed on patients walking through the door.

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3 minutes ago, Nurse luckynp said:

Not quite @MaleNP as a current mde student stated the now class of 2019-2020 did volunteer to help for seven weeks as nurse techs etc. so these students are in fact , screening people in the hospital by taking temperatures or other vitals needed on patients walking through the door.

I’m confused...what part of my comments contradicts what you just said below?

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2 hours ago, momo90 said:

From the webinar that they hosted last week, it sounded like they are confident/optimistic that we will be in hospitals by the fall, but if not, then we will front-load more of our final didactic courses into the fall term, and do mostly just clinical in the final two semesters. While that's not ideal, it's definitely still the same coursework and clinical experience, just in a different arrangement, and it's hard to know how likely that even is. I imagine that many nursing schools will be facing the same challenges, so it's no guarantee that choosing another school won't mean the same outcome. I have a friend in PA school in Washington State and they postponed her clinicals and graduation during the height of their outbreak, but have since set a return date of June 1, so they will all go back and graduation is delayed by about two months. My guess is that we will be able to go into hospitals in the fall and we will probably just have to be very flexible as I could see certain clinical sites opening and closing to students depending on their COVID-19 caseloads at any given time, so it may not be the traditional Columbia experience, but it will be a really interesting time to be in nursing school, especially in NY. I live in NYC already so for me the decision is a bit easier. I definitely feel for those of you who would need to sort out how to relocate here during all this chaos, so I could see that being a factor, if you had options closer to home right now. Personally, I was impressed by the warmth and care from the faculty and how it seemed like they were really taking a student-centered approach to their contingency plans, so I am really hopeful that it will be a great experience in the end.

I agree with you @momo90 I do love how they are trying their hardest to keep us informed and updated with how they’re handling things etc. Did you receive the email to sign up for the webinar with Dr. Ferrara as he explains Columbia nursing’s impact on covid-19? I’m Uber excited ?!

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5 minutes ago, MaleNP said:

I’m confused...what part of my comments contradicts what you just said below?

Oh my apologies ! I read the last part wrong. Multitasking here clearly isn’t working out for me. Hahahahahhahaha!
On another note so MaleNP, you don’t believe we will start clinicals in September like the professors stated and rather in October?

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@Nurse luckynp Yes! just got that email. Dr. Ferrara was fantastic on visiting day (+ he has a great NP-focused Twitter account) so I am really looking forward to this. Again, love the communication, updates, and thoughtfulness we've received so far considering the chaos of the moment.

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