Fall 2015 CSUEB

I strongly agree they have been very helpful with the application process than most school I applied to. USF sucks with helping the applicants, they should be better at it because after all, they are a private university.

I'm really torn now between SJSU and CSUEB. I live in SF and both locations are pretty much equally distant. Anyone any thoughts?

congrats all :)

when do you think they will tell us if we get the campus we have asked for?

I asked for Concord, what about you?

do they admit around 120 students in each branch?

I'm really torn now between SJSU and CSUEB. I live in SF and both locations are pretty much equally distant. Anyone any thoughts?

Hi there! I'm a current nursing student at CSUEB and I really do like this program. Overall great instructors but the classes can feel a bit faced paced due to the quarter system.

I was able to live on campus but I'm from SSF and I have other classmates that commute from across the bay. And it's definitely do-able.

Hospitals we go to are located in the East Bay (Berkeley, Hayward, Oakland, Fremont, etc)

I'm not sure about the drive to SJSU from SF but I do have a friend that commutes from SF to SJ (evergreen college for nursing) and she doesn't like it.

Hope this helps!

Hi there! I'm a current nursing student at CSUEB and I really do like this program. Overall great instructors but the classes can feel a bit faced paced due to the quarter system.

I was able to live on campus but I'm from SSF and I have other classmates that commute from across the bay. And it's definitely do-able.

Hospitals we go to are located in the East Bay (Berkeley, Hayward, Oakland, Fremont, etc)

I'm not sure about the drive to SJSU from SF but I do have a friend that commutes from SF to SJ (evergreen college for nursing) and she doesn't like it.

Hope this helps!

Hi! Thank so much for your insight. I definitely considered the quarter system, which I have had no experience with yet. Do you feel overwhelmed or is it doable? With challenging subjects like Patho or Pharmacology I feel that it might be too short.. should I start preparing now? Thanks!

Hi, I just found out I got in to CSUEB and was wondering how much did you spend on books and supplies to get started?

ajohn2015, I probably spent about $2000 during the orientation for books and other fees, but I bought the most expensive bundle of textbooks that the school offered. Many of the current students I talked with at orientation said they recommended buying the bundle, which contained many of the books needed for program in advance and had the advantage of corresponding online versions. I personally got a lot out of having both the hard copy and the online version, so it was the right choice for me, but I talked with other students who never ended up using the online versions and felt like they would have been better off buying the hard-copy books used as they needed them.

It's up to you how you want to get the books, as long as you get all of the ones on the list they will give you by the time you will need them for class. I personally don't think that you have to spend all that money up front if it isn't feasible for you.

I just got accepted! Good luck to everyone else! I'm still debating on whether to go to sjsu or csueb. I live in San Jose which will make commuting easier, but the program at East Bay sounds better. Any suggestions?

Jnnlm, one important thing to consider about commuting to CSUEB is that in the second year (level 2) of the nursing program, many the of clinical rotations will require that you go to the hospital the day beforehand to prep on the patient(s) for the next clinical day, which may start as early as 6:45am. For many students commuting from far away, this creates a serious time crunch for them. They have to drive to the hospital, pick a patient and get the relevant info, drive home, do their prep(s), then drive to the hospital again very early in the morning. These preps can take anywhere from 2-8 hours each, depending on how many meds and labs the patient(s) have, the particular requirements of your clinical instructor, and how quickly you can pump them out.

CSUEB preps/care plans are no joke. They are EXTREMELY detailed and time consuming. This can make for very late nights before clinical, which does not always set folks up for success when working with patients.

Just something to think about.

Hi! Thank so much for your insight. I definitely considered the quarter system, which I have had no experience with yet. Do you feel overwhelmed or is it doable? With challenging subjects like Patho or Pharmacology I feel that it might be too short.. should I start preparing now? Thanks!

For patho and pharm you'll have 10 weeks to learn it which might seem short if you're coming from a semester system. But the professor Julie (Hayward campus) is an awesome teacher and is straightforward. There are 2 midterms and 1 final so if you do bad on one test you still have a chance to raise your grade with the other two exams.

When you get to level 2 the courses are cut down into 5 week courses which is overwhelming and crazy. But you don't have to worry about that for another year :)

For your first year, you'll be assigned "bigs" and you can ask them for the patho and pharm syllabi but my advise is to relax this summer!

do they admit around 120 students in each branch?

CSUEB admits around 120-130 students total

Half goes to the Hayward campus and the other half goes to the Concord campus.

hey thanks for answering my question!

Hi! Thank so much for your insight. I definitely considered the quarter system, which I have had no experience with yet. Do you feel overwhelmed or is it doable? With challenging subjects like Patho or Pharmacology I feel that it might be too short.. should I start preparing now? Thanks!

For patho and pharm, they are 10 weeks each. They are doable, but very challenging and time consuming. I did well in them, but I wasn't working and gave my life to those classes.

As for the pace, in the second year of the program (level 2), the 10-week quarter gets cut in half. You have a clinical rotation (pediatrics, geriatrics, medical-surgical, labor & delivery, psychiatrics, perioperative) and its corresponding clinical theory over a 5-week period along with other classes.

The 10-week classes felt really doable for me coming from a semester system. 5 weeks is pretty nutty. You just have to jump in right away and not miss a beat. Cramming a whole nursing subject into 5 weeks, sometimes with just a quiz and a final, makes it very hard to do really well in those subjects. You have so little time to do all that reading and study the lecture content, especially with all those 10-20 page care plans you are pumping out.

I believe CSUEB is switching to a semester system in 2018, so the intense 5-week class thing may not be an issue in the future.