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The UBCV program is accelerated at 20 months, there is nothing else that would be different between the UBCO program. Except the timeframe, priority is given to Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residency status, so I think UBCO would be best since you've been accepted there already. Congratulations on getting in! I think already being in your 3rd year would give you the upper edge, there's a lot of maturity that is needed to be in nursing =)

Honestly, you've made it far to be on the waitlist. I'd like to think about the waitlist as you made it halfway, 50%. Not getting into the program right away sucks, but it also means that you get the opportunity to show them how great you are and what you've done to change their opinion when you reapply. Best of luck to you! I think we need more hospitals for schools to offer more seats.

Usually when there's a "recession" of some kind, people tend to go back to school, I think COVID-19 and the fact that a lot of people lost their jobs as a result have increased the amount of applications. Lots of people reconsidering what jobs are stable in the long run.

It doesn't matter, they aren't looking at applications until after the deadline. Handing it in earlier doesn't give you an advantage whatsoever because they need to rank everyone's applications with one another. I recommend taking your time with the application, even if you have finished to just save it on SSC and submit it a day before the deadline just in case of technical difficulties. You never know when you're on your way to work, that you might end up helping a bleeding head injury on the side of the road that you feel you could write a more persuasive statement about why you want to become a nurse. =P

Hey, I'm not sure what the supplemental application looks like this year, but accomplishments might not have to be technical. It could be you accomplished a public speaking task OR... if you don't have this yet, this could be a certificate you put in the application: Just 10 minutes of your time online =) https://www.stopoverdose.gov.bc.ca/theweekly/naloxone-training-online

Haha, my friend used that exact phrase at the beginning of Clinical LOL. Mm, I haven't personally experienced that at Clinical as the nurses I've had are very friendly and would invite us to join them for new assessments they're about to do on a patient. In addition to my clinical instructor, I've been able to approach the nurse directly and ask for tips with certain patients and scenarios. But I think that depends, my friend noticed on the first day at Clinical that the nurses on her unit were very busy and us student nurses "got in their way." However, she doesn't think that as much right now as we're all administering medications to patients, we're more helpful now haha. I think the average age is 25? Youngest is probably 21? and then oldest is 45? We have people who were in their 3rd year of undergrad, but most of us have completed a Bachelor's degree, there's also a few who have their Master's. I feel that we always have something to do, you can get caught up on your readings, but you can always read ahead. So I find that we don't have a lot of "free time," there are weeks where it's more stressful than others because you have case studies/papers/quizzes every other day. You get 2 days off in a row with no class a week so it's not bad and you get Fridays off in Term 1.

I'm not sure how it works this year. But UBC sent me an email in October and told me to register for the CASPer: "CASPer assessment dates are now available for reservation. Go to http://takecasper.com/test-dates/#testdates to register and schedule CASPer using your UBC student/applicant number. Applicants are permitted to write CASPer only once per admission cycle. Make sure you register for Undergraduate Nursing CSP-10202 – Canadian Undergraduate Health Sciences test. You will be provided with a limited number of assessment dates and times. Please note that these are the only assessment dates available for your CASPer test, and that there will be no additional assessments scheduled. You may register to take the test in February 2020." I took the second to last seating in February. I'm pretty sure I re-scheduled it once haha, I was going to take it in January but chickened out and then took it in February instead. It was not as bad as people said it was going to be, however, it would be good to practice your typing skills (I usually type 80WPM, but would practice a minute randomly here and there, I also cut my fingernails short so that I could type faster LOL). It's not bad, I went over the BeMo Youtube Videos and wrote some examples and did the practice test. ....it definitely goes by really fast and you sort of stay in a state of shock haha after the test. It's OK if you don't finish all of your answers, I left my last ones blank on 3 questions or I got cut off by the timer.

Hey, Current 2020 Cohort. Our schedule for Term 1 is as follows: Online lecture (synchronous) on Mondays and Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (with 1 hour break for lunch 12:00-1:00 p.m.). Then clinical practice (in-person is an 8-hour shift as early as 6:45 a.m. start) on Tuesday+Wednesday OR Saturday+Sunday. The weekday clinical practice shift in Term 1 have day and night shifts. Saturday+Sunday shifts are only day shifts from what I remember at selection. We do not take care of COVID-19 positive or suspected patients. Some of us have had our clinical placement shifts cancelled and switched to online live Zoom case studies with our Clinical Instructors due to the outbreaks (WEAR A MASK PEOPLE). For Term 1, you will be taking care of mostly adults and older adults and sub-acute/stable patients. Clinical Placements in Term 1: (you would rank all of the units and then an algorithm pairs you up to a place randomly...some people have gotten their first choice, second and third and also their last choice) Holy Family Hospital, Louis Brier, Burnaby, Surrey Memorial, Langley, Peace Arch, Eagle Ridge, VGH, UBC Hospital, Richmond Hospital, Delta and units can vary from medicine, acute medicine, intermediate care, acute elder care, transition to home patients, rehab unit, stroke unit etc. In Term 1: You learn more about the Foundations and Fundamentals of Care, and a lot of your clinical practice will be bed baths, AM care, and medication administration (no IVs and IM stuff yet, only subcutaneous and oral meds) I'm not sure about how many night shifts we have to do in total, but in Term 3 (May-July), we will have 12 hour shifts I think (I forgot what my CI said haha).

Hey, my email is [email protected] if you wanted to send it my way!

Hey! I definitely can, send me a private message!

Hey, So the upper years before us recommended that Term 1 is not a good time to work. But now that I'm sort of half-way through the term, I want to say that it's do-able to work part-time if your work is accommodating to your schedule? I decided not to work, but I still volunteer on the side. We get Fridays off and you either have clinical on Tuesday/Wednesday OR Saturday/Sunday. Ideally you're using the time when you don't have clinical to study, but I still found a lot of downtime. I would say working a shift or two is doable in Term 1, it's just stressful the first 3 weeks of September because there's a lot of tiny admin and modules you need to complete. Usually the supplemental application is not due until January so I wouldn't fret about it now. It's basically looking at your school/work history, references, community/leadership experience, and a personal statement explaining why you want to pursue nursing.

Hi, 99.9% is too high...more like 50%, I'm currently in the program and a good chunk of us in the program had our references contacted for verification.

To clarify, we need CPR-BLS and no Standard First Aid. You will only need to register for the CPR-BLS course. If you want Standard First Aid as well, that is a separate course that you need to register in, but we don't need that.

Thanks for the breakdown! WOW!! Honestly, have you considered law school? Haha, I feel like you'd do really well on the logic games on the LSAT!!

Hey, no we don't. It'll get submitted electronically to UBC Nursing.

No, what it means is that if there are courses that you've taken before that are required for the program you were admitted to then you could apply those credits instead of re-taking those courses. But you need to contact UBC Nursing Advising about that because I don't think BScN qualifies. That blurb is the same generic blurb they give to everyone who "transfer" and yes it's because we're going into Year 3 and the system just gives us that info. But I don't think we qualify...but doesn't hurt to ask UBC Nursing about it!

It's more of a situational judgment test and I agree, it isn't a full representation of someone's personality, but I think it was the best way for them to avoid "in-person interviews" like they did in the past. That's why UBC ranks us on our GPA, CASPer, and Supplemental Application so that they can get a "better" picture of who we are. I'd like to think of the waitlist as you're halfway there! You're 50% closer than before! What number are you on the list if you don't mind me asking?

Hey! I'm guessing those that got accepted got a 1 LOL, but they don't let you know. Feel free to send me a message and I can see if I can help. That sucks, but there's next year too!

Got accepted too, super excited and I hope things get better soon! I do wish we got to know our CASPer scores though! I really wonder how I did on them haha. My stats: First time applying Time of email offer: May 1st 4:10 p.m. Alphabetical First/Last Name: in the middle of the alphabet UBC BSc Graduate last Spring Recent 30 credits: 86% avg (4? on a 4.33 scale) CASPer: Felt rushed and didn't finish the last question on maybe 2 scenarios? CASPer Prep: I rewatched BeMo's video answers literally 12 times. And tried to formulate my responses as close to it as possible, I spent 3 days (like 6 hours distracted.. each day) practicing. CASPer Prep Schedule: 1. Watched BeMo's scenario response answer video 2. Googled for situational judgment questions 3. Practiced w/ the free BeMo questions. I saved 3 "full" tests to mimic test conditions with, that I used on the second day so that I had enough time to go over it. 4. I only "studied" for the CASPer 3 days before my scheduled testing time so that I could keep the method fresh in my head. Supplemental: Talked about why I wanted to be a nurse and related all of my leadership roles/community service etc. back to nursing and why it validated my reasons for why I want to be a nurse or how it would help me as a nurse. I didn't have a lot of work experience, mostly non-hospital and non-health volunteer work like the Writer's Exchange and reading to inner-city school children. I get super anxious with tests so knowing that the CASPer was timed freaked me out, so I really had to just read things over and over again. If anyone would like help with their supplemental or how I approached the CASPer, just let me know, more than happy to give some ideas!