NYU ABSN Fall 2015

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Anyone planning to apply to NYU ABSN program for fall 2015. Since I'm in CA, there's no way I could attend the information session. What important things were mentioned at the information session?

When are decisions released? I thought it was April 1st.

April 1 is deadline for application.

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Hi Everyone! I thought I would post here since I just graduated the accelerated program at NYU. My friends and I all loved it! When I applied my gpa was 3.85, I had A's in everything but chemistry. I had a research background that included hard science and socio-economic disparities. I sent my application in before the deadline, but my transcripts weren't connected to my application on their system. Once they were together I got an acceptance immediately. I'd love to answer any questions people have!

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How was your first semester? I heard Professional Nursing was hell and Patho is the most difficult class! Can you share your experience for your first semester and how you prepared?

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@Imdr1088 when did you get your acceptance? Also how many were in your cohort?

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@tmath I was told on 4/12 that my application had stuff missing, I called, turns out they just didn't put it all together, on 4/16 I got my acceptance

-My graduating class was 180ish I think, but you start with more because you have traditional undergraduates with you.

@kmichellex The first semester is the most difficult. This is because you aren't used to the sheer amount of work and have typically never done pre-sims (assignment for simulation), practicals, and nursing care plans before. You also have a lot of busy work such as modules for quality and safety, kaplan tests, patho quizzes... just to give you an idea the typical nursing syllabus is about 12 pages long! Trust me it gets easier. If I could tell my past self what to do it would be to try and do pre-sims and IHI/QSEN modules ahead of time, worry more about the courses that are 4-6 credits (health assessment and adult and elder 1 in first semester) than 3 credit courses. Patho is difficult, its a flipped classroom where the lecture is online, but in class its more discussion. It is a lot of self motivated work. Professional nursing is now taught by a different person than who I had, for my I just read the textbook, it was fairly short and easy to read. AE1 is 6 credits, but you have an AWESOME professor, tests get harder as the semester goes on so keep studying hard even after the great grade on the first test. Health Assessment you will use forever, so really work at it.

Here is what worked for me, but it won't work for everyone:

-Go to class, even if you are gonna zone out at times (I certainly did), just go

-Figure out where you learn best from, is it reading the textbook? Powerpoint's? listening to podcasts? and stick to it. For me the first semester I tried to read everything, plus re-listen to podcasts, plus make study sheets... too much and I always felt behind. What I did was take notes in class, ACTIVELY re-listen to podcasts for any topic I wasn't confident in at 1.5x speed and write new notes in a different color pen, and then for stuff I wanted more clarification or was detailed I read the textbook. I read the textbook more, but I would read it while going to bed on my iPad, so I'm not sure how much I got from that. I also made very detailed study sheets.

-Do busy work, IHI Modules, Kaplan tests, and anything that can be done early... early. Don't want to leave it till the last minute when you have pre-sims, practicals, and a final!

-If you don't like nursing diagnosis (I really don't, but that is another topic) then think of it as a problem not a diagnosis. If you have pneumonia you have an impaired airway... so what do you do for that? It is a good way to think about the entire person.

Did I need to do all that work? Probably not, but I was also planning my wedding, so I needed to be on top of everything. Other people in the class were having babies, working full time (I seriously don't know how they did it), and parents.

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So basically do the little assignments first. And focus on the classes with the largest amounts of credits.

Ahh study sheets. I heard this is what got people by! Do you happened to have any random one just so we can see how we should be formatting them? If you dont mind.

Im pretty excited about it NYU. Which semester was the easiest for you ? Do you usually get days off during the week and how does the schedule of classes look like

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Is it worth the 80,000? I'm not sure if that's the exact number but I know nyu is expensive

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Classes are usually 2 days of the week, and clinical/sim the other 2 days, so typically your doing school stuff 4 days/week. When you have psych (second semester) you only take it for half the semester so you have 3 days for 6 weeks and then 4 days/week for the other 6 weeks. Same goes for community (4th semester). Most people thought semester 3 was the easiest (AE3, peds, maternity, genetics). I too believed this and let myself slip a little, but ended up making up for it. I found the easiest courses were genetics and pharmacology. Pharm just came really easy to me, plus the blueprint for the exams were excellent.

My study sheets differed based on the class. In patho it was a lot of flow charts with like etiology, mechanisms, signs, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment. AE1 I took the blueprint give, put a lot of space between each topic and then answered each question/topic. So like blueprint might say "Implications of vision loss: Impact on safety, Impact on quality of life" So I would make bullet points under each of them of what the implications were. When it was a topic like lets say Urinary Incontinence I would make a flow chart of What is it/Who is at risk/Assessment/Interventions/Complications/and box for misc information. I'm not sure why its not letting me post pictures, but since I hand wrote them all I can't copy and paste.

Also a thing about the cohort: it seems big, but you get to know everyone! You are one big close-knit family. I also heard (so may not be true) that they might want to decrease the cohort size, but like I said this might not be true.

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Hmm is it worth the $80,000. Well you have to take a number of things into account.

1. I needed a name school, I knew I was moving out of state after this so I couldn't have a school no one had heard of even if it was just as good.

2. NYU has recently ranked as #6 in the country, so yea its actually a pretty darn good school

3. You get what you pay for. I always had access to professors, had the best clinical sites, and my friends who stayed in NYC all got their dream job at top hospitals in NYC.

4. There are usually scholarships, even if you are not a minority or economically disadvantaged.

5. Free kaplan course, and I'm sure this helped me pass the NCLEX

6. NYU is excellent if you want to go into adult/geriatric nursing. They have a Hartford center, and amazing faculty pioneering geriatric nursing research.

In terms of how prepared I am for a job? Well from what I hear no one is ever prepared!

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Do you know of people with lower GPAs that got accepted? @lmdr1088

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@lmdr1088 Hi! Thank you sooo much for your post, all of this information is so helpful! It's nice to know what we'll be getting into.

Any luck finding employment after graduation? Like kmichellex asked, I would also like to know what the schedule is like. Are clinicals two, 12-hour shifts each week? (Because isn't every other week SIM - so is there 24 hours of SIM on those weeks?) Should we keep our text books to study for the NCLEX?

Thank you!!

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@lmdr1088

Thank you so much for this information!

Is there any way I can personally contact you?

How was the last semester like?

Did a lot of people apply for the NYU's New Grad program?

Do you know if traditional students can switch into accelerated?

What books would you recommend NOT getting for certain classes?

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