OHSU BSN Fall 2017

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Hi all I just thought I would start this, since there doesn't appear to be anything started for the Fall 2017 3 year BSN at OHSU. Feel free to update as you get emails regarding interviews, acceptances, etc. This week it looks like everyone should be hopefully getting a email hearing something if they are chosen for a interview. I wonder if due to the lack of any posts for the Fall 2017 that means that competition isn't as fierce as in prior cycles... this is probably not the case. But it seems like the cohort has been alot more quite then in the past.

Specializes in Emergency Room, CEN, TCRN.

OHSU recommends a PC in their technology guide, but plenty of my cohort have macs with no problems that I know of.

Biggest consideration for a laptop is make sure you get one with good battery life. You use it a lot in class and in clinicals and there isn't always an outlet available.

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Specializes in ED.

As others have said, your backpack is fine. Usually there was a good safe place for bags either on the unit or in a specific meeting room. All I ever brought to clinical was my required uniform (including stethoscope and pen light), a small 5x7 note book, and my lunch. At our clinical sites we were able to chart on the computers at the nurses stations or in Pt. rooms on the hospitals charting system (EPIC).

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Thank you all.

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Hi all...I was just wondering if anyone has any idea what our schedule will be like at the Monmouth campus. I see you can look up on OHSU's website, but for Monmouth it is only showing Winter sessions. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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Specializes in Emergency Room, CEN, TCRN.

Don't take too much stock into the schedules listed on the website. They didn't include all the SIM and clinical days.

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Specializes in ED.

If I remember correctly, Fall term schedule was Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. For the most part it was classes Tuesday, lab Wednesday, and clinical Thursday. That schedule may have changed though, I do not know. Also it may be a bit different week to week as the term starts.

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Thanks for your responses, both you and gere7404. I kinda figured it wouldn't be completely accurate, just looking for a general idea. Do either of you happen to remember how far before the term started you knew what your schedule would be? Thanks again for your help!

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Specializes in Emergency Room, CEN, TCRN.

I want to say it was when we got access to the actual classes on Sakai that we saw the actual schedule. I just remember it being way more intensive than what was on OHSU's site, several instances of having to go to places like Planned Parenthood to interact with teenagers at weird hours. Might be different at different campuses, this was Ashland.

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Hey everyone, for those already attending, at the Portland campus, do you know if OHSU has any part time jobs that would work to add a little income while in school? Not CNA or anything like that...maybe something that is just a few hours here and there??

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I have a question. So we got an email about the book list and some people on fb are saying that we don't need books because they didn't use them at all throughout the program. Can someone please clear this ? Which books are critical to get?

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tank23, can you either link a screenshot or copy/paste the text of the list you were given for us? Then we can tell you from that list which ones are most important. Thanks!

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Also, myself and a few other upperclassmen from the OHSU Portland campus are working on a Frequently Asked Questions and Helpful Links guide for incoming students. It's primarily targeted at the new incoming 3-year BSN class at the Portland campus (aka Class of 2020), but I'm sure it could be very helpful to all incoming new OHSU students across all the other campuses and BSN/ABSN programs as well. The rough draft of the guide will be done and sent out for certain by this coming weekend, and purposefully has answers to many of the questions being asked on this thread and many more that are commonly asked each year.

If you'd like a copy, shoot me an email at [email protected]. If you've already emailed me, I haven't forgotten you, but in the very small chance you don't get a copy from me via email this coming weekend feel free to shoot me another email.

Thanks!

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