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Not a problem. The clinical sites vary. There are 3 local hospitals here in Binghamton that you can be placed in. Each are about 10-15 mins from BU. Other sites they use are Guthrie (PA) which is about 50 min away and Upstate Medical (Syracuse) which is an hour and a half away. You can be placed at these facilities for psych, pediatrics and some medsurg rotations, so it is pretty essential to have a car or a friend to carpool with!

Hello. The program itself begins Junior year, where it’s strictly all nursing courses. You’ll start out in a fundamentals class where you learn all of the basic/essential skills to do assessments etc. Clinical time for this class begins in the learning or simulation lab, until you pass all of the “sign offs” that say you’re competent in each of the tested skills/categories. After passing each of those labs you will start your first real clinical rotation in a nursing home setting. In the spring you’ll move on to more specific classes and clinical settings for different areas like med-surg, labor and delivery, pediatrics, and psych. Senior year fall will be very similar to spring of junior year where you go through a bunch of different settings, and the classes correspond to what you’re doing in clinical. Those two semesters you’ll generally have two days of clinical per week from 6/7am-1/2pm depending on your instructor. Senior year spring is where you have your capstone, so you get to pick 3 top areas that you are interested in, and then you get placed on one of those units depending on what’s available and the schedule for that is twice a week either on days 7-3 or evenings 3-11. I personally did my capstone in a critical care setting, on a cardiovascular ICU. As far as books, Decker uses a company called Lippincott which all of the books are online and interactive. They assign quizzes and other assignments through that so generally you do need to purchase the books. They will tell you if the book(s) are mandatory or not. Hope this helps! There’s a lot of information that I could talk about, haha!

Hi! Congrats on getting in, you should be super proud! I absolutely loved the program, I was a transfer into the traditional program and everyone was so welcoming. The professors are absolutely amazing and always willing to help. I wouldn’t have wanted to spend my time in nursing school anywhere else, I’m so glad I chose Binghamton!

Were you notified about orientation in May? I haven't received anything about that yet

Overall a 3.8 GPA, 4.0 GPA for the prerequisites. I don't have them all completed yet, I am currently taking Microbiology & I'm taking Chemistry 2 over the summer. I'm a transfer from a community college coming in as a Junior.

I received my decision on April 1st. I was accepted into the traditional transfer program starting in the fall!