I recently received an offer of admission to Kwantlen's BSN Post-Baccalaureate Program in which you can get your Bachelors in Nursing in 27 months. This program is to commence in Sept 2013.
I was wondering if anyone has any feedback regarding this program. What's it like compared to the Undergraduate BSN 4-year program at Kwantlen? How is the program in general compared to other BC Nursing Programs? etc.... Any help or information is appreciated!
If you have also been accepted to the program or is thinking of applying, feel free to comment!
Few weeks ago I wrote an email to the contact person regarding immunization form and basically she told me the same thing as to you onepinkdaisy, that any immunization after the form is handed would be up to me to complete. My doctor advised me to get all the missing immunizations done, so I'm still in the process.
It's very exciting to find out that we can ESN during the program!
I haven't signed up for the Aug 28 orientation in Langley yet but now that you both have mentioned it I should consider going.
@onepinkdaisy: thanks for the heads up regarding the TB screen test :) this definitely gives me a big sigh of relief! but, can you tell me more about this big hiring fair in March with Fraser Health? is this a job fair where they go to a bunch of different schools? or what exactly is it? with regards to the student ID's and buying supplies, I believe we can definitely get that done during orientation.
@onepinkdaisy & @june_flower: Sorry i forgot to respond to your question with what my schedule is like. I work full-time at the moment, so Monday-Friday 8 hours each day. A weekend would work best for me! what about you guys?
@al0a: about the hiring fair, that's all she said to me that it's in March and it's at the Central City location... I'm going to ask about it once we are in the program.
Yeah I can do weekends, just would need a heads up on when we are all available to meet up :) also which malls are closest to you guys: Surrey Central City, Guildford Town Centre, Metrotown, Lougheed, Willowbrook? You can PM me too!
@june_flower and @onepinkdaisy: metrotown is also good for me! I would say lets pick a date somewhere in july? also, how can we pm each other 3 way to plan this? haha facebook maybe?
Yeah good point about the up coming weekends, so I say yes to a weekend in July after the long weekend. Sure we can do facebook, I'll PM you my username... hopefully it works as I'm on private and I don't think I'll come up on search.
I am interested in applying for the 2014 entry to the Post Baccalaureate nursing program. Does anyone know if you can complete the pre requisites at the same time as applying? For example I need to finish up the 6 English credits and take the anatomy and physiology classes, if I took them in September and January and applied in November could I still be accepted?
Yes you can! In my case, I had applied in Jan 2013 and was not finished my English pre-requisite yet. I was given until August 2013 to finish this course.
I was recently accepted to the BSN PB program at Kwantlen as well. I applied late to the program. I am wondering if any of you have done the Fit Testing yet? Have you received any emails from the professors regarding the courses or received any further information regarding the program since you registered? I'm wondering if I have been left out of some important information due to my late registration... Any info would be great!
Congratulations! Will you be going to the orientation on Wednesday Aug 28? I'll be there, maybe I'll meet you :)
Anyway, no I have not done the Fit Testing... they have not mentioned when to do it yet, I'm thinking they will let us know once we are close to doing clinical placements. Have you gotten the email about schedules for Simulation Labs? That's about it and the welcome email from today, but I'm assuming you got already.
Thank you for getting back to me :) I appreciate it. Congratulations to you too! I have recently seen the emails and the new information now that two of the courses are open online.
I am still thinking about attending the orientation tomorrow. I was originally signed up, but after going to the school twice in the last few weeks to hand in the final forms I am not sure I need to go anymore. I have already bought my books and it's just a matter of finding our first class, which shouldn't take that long to figure out. I really only need to get the Student ID card which I can do after class next week. I asked the registrar if orientation was specific to the nursing program, and they said that it wasn't. The orientation schedule that was recently emailed looks like a lot of general speakers and fun games for new students. I would be interested in meeting other classmates but I'm not sure how when there is no specific meeting place or time... Do you know of anyone else in this program who is attending tomorrow?
What I would really like to know is if we need to bring our laptops, iPods, books, etc. to class. The email recently sent out also said that our first class is in 1804 but my course plan says it is in room 2125 Monday at 8am. ??
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Few weeks ago I wrote an email to the contact person regarding immunization form and basically she told me the same thing as to you onepinkdaisy, that any immunization after the form is handed would be up to me to complete. My doctor advised me to get all the missing immunizations done, so I'm still in the process.
It's very exciting to find out that we can ESN during the program!
I haven't signed up for the Aug 28 orientation in Langley yet but now that you both have mentioned it I should consider going.