Hi, first post because I cannot find that much information about this!
Apps recently opened to OHSU's BSN program. I haven't decided if I want to apply to Ashland or Monmouth - I am currently in California (don't hate me Oregonians) but most of my family live close to those two campuses.
Anyone else start their application for OHSU yet?
Also - Any tips for essay question responses? I have a 3.9 GPA in the prereqs and overall, finished all prereqs, and have 4000+ hours of healthcare experience as a medical assistant, but I feel like I still might screw it up if I flub those responses.
Not sure about Klamath specifically, especially now with covid, but I think most of the ohsu programs follow a similar schedule.
each quarter has 2-3 classes, they’re usually 9-12 credit hours per quarter. I took all my non-nursing undergrad courses before the program so I didn’t have to take anything other than nursing classes. People who didn’t have them done had to take them the quarters we had less classes or over the Summer.
The first quarter was pretty much a CNA course + learning basic nursing tasks like assessments, taking vitals, pulling and passing meds. a lot of lab time, not many clinical hours, though.
We had two quarters of chronic health where we did our clinicals in skilled nursing facilities, long term care facilities, and assisted living facilities. Two quarters focused on acute care where you did clinicals in the hospital. the majority will be on a med surg unit, but you get a couple of days in specialty units like the ER, ICU, OB, OR, wound care, etc. you take patho and pharm alongside these heavier classes, which made the first year the toughest imo.
The whole second year focuses more on populations health and you do your clinical time in community agencies that might provide social services vs health care as an intro to case management. The last year you do a leadership project and then work six months for free during your practicum. Make sure you advocate for yourself for your clinical placement — a lot of specialty areas like ICU, ED, or will only hire new grads who did their clinical hours in their department .
there were a lot of group projects (at least one a quarter), presentations, and lots of long essays (think a 10+ page paper each quarter per class). Usually three tests per subject a quarter. Usual schedule was two days of lecture with two days of lab/clinical (later quarters you do much more clinical time vs lab time). Each quarter you do several group sim labs w/ animatronic mannequins or actors, and usually have a solo final sim lab as a hands on final.
The best staff were newer instructors as they had recent hands on experience. Some of the instructors had been teaching so long that they didn’t really know how nursing in the real world works anymore. the joke here at Asante is rcc makes nurses, ohsu makes essay writers. There’s a misconception that the ohsu program does less clinical hours than a 2-yr ADN program, but a lot of the second year is focused on doing things other than bedside nursing and a lot of the program is self aggrandizing fluff preaching how only baccalaureate prepared nurses are capable of fixing pretty much every problem in the world.
Super helpful, thank you. Would you mind telling us about your background, GPA, work history was getting admitted into the program?
It's likely too soon, but has anyone heard from OHSU for essay invites? I received an email with an expected timeline. Sounds like we should be getting invites for the essay this month? I hope! ?
I haven’t heard anything from OHSU about essay invites quite yet :) What campus did you apply to? I hope we hear back soon, too.
I applied to Ashland and did get an email with a timeline, it was sent out a couple weeks or so ago. Basically just said that they received my application and gave a time line on interviews .
Oh OK I see that now , thank you . When I looked back through my emails I received that one as well, just saying they received my application and the timeline going forward. I’m guessing by the end of March we should know if we are invited to interview since all of them seem to be the first week of April (unless a person applied to accelerated program those interviews are much sooner).
I applied to the Monmouth campus and received an email a week ago about a virtual Mock Interview on 3/17th. Has anyone received this as well? I know it's just a mock interview, but I'm super nervous about this as well.
I applied to the Monmouth campus and received an email a week ago about a virtual Mock Interview on 3/17th. Has anyone received this as well? I know it's just a mock interview, but I'm super nervous about this as well.
Congrats on the mock interview! I applied to the Portland campus and haven't heard anything yet. Still checking my email everyday for an update! ?
I applied to the Monmouth campus and received an email a week ago about a virtual Mock Interview on 3/17th. Has anyone received this as well? I know it's just a mock interview, but I'm super nervous about this as well.
I haven’t heard anything about a mock interview! I applied to ashland.
Historically, Invites for interviews are sent out middle of March, around the 20th/21st. The mock interviews are not completed at all campuses. The mock interviews are optional and are open to all, they do not guarantee that you will be given a formal interview invite.
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