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My husband and I are researching to move out of NorCal and are currently searching for cities to consider for a move in 18 months - 2 years. One major criteria is an area friendly to hiring a new grad BSN (Covid willing, I'll be graduating in Dec '21). We've got our eyes on Idaho, Montana, Nashville area but are open to many places if it's the right fit. I feel very out of the loop about the nursing climate outside of California. So I'm casting a wide net. We're looking for family friendly, good cost of living, affordable housing, good public schools, and somewhere I can hit the ground running-- career-wise. Suggestions? Thank you!

No, they have a vendor you order through, they have to have the embroidery, they have to be the right green, and I think the brand is Grey’s Anatomy (I think some people find extra pants on amazon) but you’ll definitely at least have to get the tops and lab coat through the vendor. Heidi will send all the links and codes to order. Tip: the vendor takes forever so order them as soon as you get the link to make sure you have them by the start of school.

You wear scrubs to clinical and lab with black or white shoes (mainly black, mainly white, it’s fine if there are patterns or logos). You wear business casual plus a sac State embroidered lab coat to your clinical prep days (which is at the hospital) and then it’s business casual for everything else on campus. I'm not sure that there is a hard line on hair color, but they do want you to look professional, and I don’t think I’ve seen anyone with vividly unnatural hair colors. Lots of people have tattoos which were encouraged to cover if you can reasonably (at clinical) and then people with facial piercings and stuff like that remove them for clinical. The bottom line is they want you looking professional, especially in hospitals where we are guests as students.

You’re welcome. And no, there’s no enrollment fee (like when you say you intend to enroll, you don’t pay anything for them to hold your spot). most fees that I can think of are bundled into your tuition. (Health center, etc) New student orientation was something between $60-70 and included a catered lunch, so obviously that cost might change if you’re not allowed on campus for that. There’s also a nursing orientation at Folsom hall separate from the new student orientation on main campus (which is for all majors) but if I’m remembering correctly, the nursing orientation didn’t cost anything extra.

Pharmacology is integrated into the nursing courses, so you’ll learn the relevant drugs alongside the pathophysio in each nursing course. That two unit pharmacology course is an elective but not one you specifically have to take in the program.

I'm so excited Chelsey!! xoxox

We're hopping along, but all plans are still conditional for next semester as well. I really all depends on when the shelter in place is lifted and whether or not we'll be allowed on campus in the Fall. Basically, nothing new! I have hopes though, if Newsom is talking about schools opening in July there's hope? Just my own opinion! CONGRATS again! You're going to love it.

@JOtt123 Congratulations! I've been rooting for you!!

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I will let you know if anything comes up!

Hi Jayla, Currently at Sac State, I would describe the semester as in a quasi-limbo. I'm 1st semester, and they currently have us completing 1 of our 3 courses online (nursing professionalism) as it does not require skills/sim lab or clinical. The other two courses are kinda/sorta still on as we continue to work on small projects and lecture material at home, though compared to the first half of the semester, it's a near standstill. While we are doing odds and end sort of assignments for the other two classes, I believe we are having to take incompletes in these two courses because we have to be in clinical to complete them, per the BRN. I can't say exactly what the plan is to get us back on track because it has not been revealed to us; the faculty are still dealing with the fallout. They have kept us involved in the discussion about next semester but as of yet, there are no resolutions. The school of nursing has been absolutely incredible though, the standstill is not their fault as they are required to follow BRN regulations to remain accredited as well as follow state mandates about social distancing. What I do know, per the president of CSUS, all Summer courses will also be online for all of Sac State, so I really doubt we'll be catching up on clinical or skills lab until the Fall. This week is "Spring Break," so I don't anticipate any new information at the moment.

Last semester the initial emails came to private accounts. Make sure to check spam also. Eventually, most likely after you are accepted, they switch and start emailing you primarily through the CSU email during the onboarding process, so it’s good to get in the habit of checking both at least once daily.

Hey @JOtt123 we didn’t get our schedules until pretty close to starting... I believe it was around orientation which was maybe 2 weeks before starting. You do not get to choose your schedule and there are basically 2 and which one you get depends on what clinical group you get assigned to. You’ll either be “an even” or “an odd” and your schedule will depend on that. Everyone in the cohort takes the same 3 classes (12 units) total. The safest way to plan at this point is to count on being at school or clinical Monday-Friday. During front loading (the first few weeks of school) you’ll be there basically every day full time. After front loading and clinicals begin, the “evens” have mon-thurs and they are all long, full days. The “odds” are on campus or at clinical mon-fri but the days are not as long. *Disclaimer: this is how it is this semester; I have no idea if there would be any changes for fall.

I feel ridiculous even saying this, but yes and I haven't even cracked it open. We had to buy a required book bundle, I opened it and took out the 4 books with required reading so far and haven't even looked at the rest yet until just now. Thank you. The r/t and AEB are exactly where I am having trouble coming up with my own diagnoses.

Help! I need some direction on writing nursing diagnoses. I'm 7 weeks into 1st semester, have passed my first set of midterms, maintained solid grades, haven't even had a melt down yet. BUT. There's nothing that makes me feel dumber than trying to write a nursing diagnosis. We were given a NANDA list of med/surge acute care diagnoses. But feel helpless when trying to come up with a diagnosis on my own. I usually end up googling for assigned, hypothetical case studies and patient care plans for clinicals. I feel like I know a good diagnosis when I see one, but am useless at writing my own. What did you do to learn how to do this well (and efficiently?) I spend WAY too much time trying to come up with them, and it's so frustrating when I have 45 other things on my to do list. Thank you for any advice!