ELM-A SFSU 2020 Applicants

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Hi Everyone, I know this is a bit early but wanted to get it going because of other past threads for ELM-A program at SFSU.

I will be applying in the fall, my last 60 units 3.7 and prereqs 3.9. I volunteer at two hospitals (SFGH, Stanford). One of those volunteers programs I am a coordinator for. I have experience in home healthcare and have supported mothers and babies for over 3 years, and supported families with children with developmental disabilities for 5 years. I am hoping to apply to Women's Health track. Would love to hear from other applicants and your stories. I found these threads really helpful, I would highly recommend reading the past applicants who were accepted into the program. Thanks everyone!

Specializes in Perinatal Nursing/ Women's Health.

Hi @changementality...

Weird I am not sure why you could not message me. But my thought on the ELM-A program overall is lengthy but what I could say in brief is that I get out of the program what you put into it. I left feeling very prepared, got into 3 newgrad programs and have been in my L&D position for the last 2 years, loving it. They will not hold your hand but they do offer a lot of support and I loved almost all the professors I had. Make sure a lot to office hours, make connections and network the ENTIRE time you are in school, join clubs ect. There are lots of opportunities for this. The simulations are wonderful for learning and challenge you to think critically, we had at least one for each specialty. The small class sizes were a great opportunity for participation and you will be expected to work on A LOT of group projects. Our class had a 100% pass rate of the NCLEX.. Set backs may have been that not everyone got placed where they wanted to be placed for their preceptorships or clinicals but I think that happens at a lot of schools. There were some students who had difficulty jumping through admin hoops for their culminating experience projects but my advice there is just to start early. Hope that helps?

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@MidwifeyToBe MSN RN thanks for all the info!

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Does anyone know any info on housing, trying to find a place either around Daly City or around SF that would still close if I drove to school? Looking at CraigList and other websites but if anyone has any ideas I would really appreciate it. Thanks:)

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Hello current ELM-A students. I was aceepted into SFSU's incoming ELMSN class for Fall 2020. I wanted to ask how SFSU has handled your curriculum/clinicals due to COVID 19? I am not getting any responses from them yet so I want to see how they are handling students that are already in the program! Please reply with your email so I can email you directly or if you can write directly in the thread, that would be great! Thank you

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Hi nursingalldaywoot,

For us all our classes have been online on Zoom. With our theory classes we still meet and have assignments through sites such as DocuCare and Coursepoint. For lab we still are doing the usually checkoff, but once we go back to on-campus classes will meet up with our professor to do our Medication/Injection and Foley Catheter check off in front of her and our TAs. For clinicians we had to replace our community clinical with assignments on DocuCare and nursing plan presentations. While our clinical for our skill nursing facility (SNF) is kinda still going since our instructor works there and we meet the patients through videochatting, where we can ask them questions to help with our nursing care plan for our individual patient.

Hope this helps.

Best,

Ami_95

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1 minute ago, Ami_95 said:

Hi nursingalldaywoot,

For us all our classes have been online on Zoom. With our theory classes we still meet and have assignments through sites such as DocuCare and Coursepoint. For lab we still are doing the usually checkoff, but once we go back to on-campus classes will meet up with our professor to do our Medication/Injection and Foley Catheter check off in front of her and our TAs. For clinicians we had to replace our community clinical with assignments on DocuCare and nursing plan presentations. While our clinical for our skill nursing facility (SNF) is kinda still going since our instructor works there and we meet the patients through videochatting, where we can ask them questions to help with our nursing care plan for our individual patient.

Hope this helps.

Best,

Ami_95

Thank you so much for the reply and for giving me an idea of how they are handling this. I truly appreciate it ?

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On 11/6/2019 at 11:42 AM, Sarahpop said:

Congrats! Excited to meet all of you:)

Hi guys! I hope you're well! I was curious do you guys have any tips on the interview? what kind of questions did they ask? 

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How is the program?

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