Fall 2015 CSUEB

paisleybird · Jun 6, 2015

I would love to answer this question for you and for other potential CSUEB nursing students, but according to our student handbook, we can "not discuss or post any information about faculty, peers, patients, family members, or any clinical facility on any electronic venue." I'm assuming that means listing clinical sites as well.

Thanks for your response Donut151. I have sent you a personal message.

gingersnapper · Jun 7, 2015

Thanks for your response Donut151. I have sent you a personal message.

Paisleybird,

I'd be happy to answer any questions you have as long as they do not violate our program policy. The same rules apply via private online message. Let's keep our discussion public. There isn't anything I would tell you privately that I wouldn't say on this forum and I'm sure other potential students would benefit from the answers.

ajohn2015 · Jun 8, 2015

I got Concord Campus! Orientation August 13th!

paisleybird · Jun 9, 2015

Thanks Donut151. I totally understand and respect your approach!

I am thinking about how the schedule will be like for the first quarter. Will we go to campus on all days, whole day? Do the clinicals start in the 2nd quarter? What exactly is preceptorship? I am confusing clinical rotations with that term.

Please respond to whatever you are comfortable with :)

paisleybird · Jun 9, 2015

I got Concord Campus! Orientation August 13th!

:) congrats and goodluck! I am in Hayward.

Nurse1315 · Jun 9, 2015

I have driven by the Concord campus a million times and each time I have said a little prayer in my head, "I hope that's the school I get into." My prayers have been answered today...Super excited!

ajohn2015 · Jun 9, 2015

I have driven by the Concord campus a million times and each time I have said a little prayer in my head, "I hope that's the school I get into." My prayers have been answered today...Super excited!

Congratulations!

slaybee · Jun 9, 2015

Woo! I'm in hayward. Does anyone know if we can bring a guest with us to orientation?

luckyduck'17 · Jun 9, 2015

Got into Hayward!!! Can't wait till the school year starts :)

gingersnapper · Jun 10, 2015

Thanks Donut151. I totally understand and respect your approach!
I am thinking about how the schedule will be like for the first quarter. Will we go to campus on all days, whole day? Do the clinicals start in the 2nd quarter? What exactly is preceptorship? I am confusing clinical rotations with that term.
Please respond to whatever you are comfortable with :)

Hi again Paisleybird,

At the Concord campus, our schedule was typically Mon-Thurs with the exception of a possible Friday simulation lab or Fri/Sat clinical. The Fri/Sat clinical schedule only applied to a few possible rotations in the second year. I usually had clinicals Mon/Wed and classes Tues/Thurs. My classes the first year were all during the morning or day, then in the second year, there were a few night classes. The clinicals were anytime between 6:45am-9pm, depending on the shift we were on.

For the first quarter of the nursing program, we had a seminar class that did an educational outreach project working with elders in the community. We had some direct patient contact, but it wasn't a traditional clinical. The second quarter, we had clinicals twice per week, and that's generally how often we had them each quarter after that.

Hayward and Concord campuses have different schedules. I would recommend asking a Hayward student to share their typical schedule as well. During the second year, Concord and Hayward students shared classes for the respective clinical theory classes that went along with our clinicals, so you may have to commute to another campus for 5 weeks if it's held there.

A clinical is a period of time that you work with your patient(s) under your clinical instructor's and nurse's supervision. Our nurse for the day was whomever was assigned to the patient(s) we picked to work with. In the 2nd quarter (our first traditional clinical), we picked our patient during the clinical beforehand, as we were in a skilled nursing facility, where the patients didn't get discharged as often. After that, we usually visited the facility the day beforehand to pick our patient(s) and collect the information we needed to prepare for working with the patient(s) the following day.

Preceptorship can be called by many different names (senior capstone, senior practicum, etc.), but it generally refers to a period of intense clinical experience in the senior year of a nursing program. At CSUEB, we work under the supervision of one nurse (our preceptor) and a faculty member who serves as a clinical liaison. We work the entire shift, rather than leaving earlier as we did in our clinicals. By the end, the goal is to be able to take excellent care of the maximum amount of patients assigned to a nurse in that setting (i.e. 5 in a med-surg setting). We also have a weekly preceptorship seminar class at the same time.

It's a chance to transition from being a student nurse to the experience of being a professional nurse. At CSUEB, it lasts an entire quarter and is a minimum of 240 hours. This is a pretty high number of hours for the area, which gives us a chance to get as much experience in our preceptorship as possible.

I remember being so confused about all of these clinical components when I was about to start nursing school. These are great questions!

ajohn2015 · Jun 11, 2015

Thanks Donut151!

paisleybird · Jun 11, 2015

Thanks Donut151!

Yes...Thanks a lot Donut151.