RNthrowaway2020

Has anyone applied for and gotten an OSAP estimate yet?

Sure, so these are the Queen's AST placements: Year 1: NURS 206 -- Chronic/Acutely Ill/Elderly Adults = 120 hours per term NURS 371 -- Maternal/Child Family-Centred = 192 hours per term (one rotation in maternal/child family health (I.e. pregnancy, labour, pre/post partum) and one rotation in paeds) NURS 405 -- Community Health Promotion = 192 hours per term Year 2: NURS 345 -- Psychiatric Mental Health + Med/Surg = 192 hours per term And then your integrated practicum/consolidation, which is 400 hours over 10 weeks. You also take courses in maternal child nursing care, med/surg, psychiatric mental health, community health, gerontological nursing and others. U of T Year 1: NUR 360 (Year Long) Childbearing Years + Older Persons and Their Families (not sure how many clinical placement hours) NUR 371: Acute Care Nursing for Adults (8 hour shifts on Thursdays and Fridays for 7 weeks, roughly 112 hours) NUR 372: Mental Health Nursing (8 hour shifts on Thursdays and Fridays for 7 weeks, roughly 112 hours) NUR 373: Nursing Care of Children and Families (8 hour shifts on Thursdays and Fridays for 7 weeks, roughly 112 hours) U of T Year 2: NURS 460 (Year Long) Chronic Illness, you have to choose two sections (one per term) and you get sim lab experience, seminar format: - Nursing Issues in Caring for Patients with Cardiovascular Conditions - Nursing Issues in Caring for Patients with Neurological Conditions - Nursing Issues in Caring for Patients with Complex Surgical Conditions - Nursing Issues in Caring for Patients with Cancer - Nursing Issues in Caring for Patients with Complex Health Conditions - Nursing Issues in Caring for Children and their Families - Nursing Issues in Caring for Childbearing Families - Nursing Issues in Caring for Older Patients with Complex Health Conditions NURS 461 (Year Long) Primary Health Care, you have to choose two sections (one per term) and you I'm not sure how placements work: - Gender and Health - Family and Health - Migration and Health - Aging Adults and Health - Indigenous Health - Mental Health - Child and Youth Health - Home and Health - Global Health NURS 470: integrative Nursing Practicum/Consolidation: This is from mid-April to end of June, 11 weeks long. If you want to work in maternity, I'm sure either/or will work fine for you, it's more so the consolidation that I would look for so you specialize in that area and hopefully get a job in the unit you do your big 400 hour practicum in. I also know that Queen's students don't necessarily have to do their practicum in Kingston, some folks do it in Toronto, some in their hometowns, some have even flown out to BC, etc. I didn't apply to UofT, I did my undergrad there and a sample viewing of the course timetable looked too academic for my liking, from talking to the students, but whatever place you choose to go, I'm sure you will become a fantastic nurse ? Best of luck!!

Congratulations! It's a big decision to make so I'm sure you will have a lot of thoughts going through your head, so I would sleep on it before making any final decisions. Toronto is a hotspot for COVID-19 right now -- I'm working at one of the downtown hospitals and I don't know how long social distancing measures will be kept up. I'm in contact with a few nursing students who are completing their consolidation right now as nursing sims. Kingston is isolated, has all of their COVID cases resolved, and has less competition for nursing placements compared to the GTA programs. But even before all this happened, Queen's was my first choice. When you look at the NCLEX pass rate for Queen's AST compared to other schools, the pass rate is close to, if not, 100%. Solid mix of placements in all areas (including "rare" ones like ob/gyn, paeds, mental health) rather than random assignment/ranking. I also just like Kingston, it's a cute town. These are some of the factors for me.

Tbh I would say I’m pretty average. My cGPA when I graduated was a 3.6 and then I got 90s in my psychology and anatomy prereqs (which I took after I graduated). On my PSE, I had a few awards from my first undergrad degree. ECs: - Committee on Standing to review students’ academic petitions - Student treasurer of a $200k budget - Orientation week executive - ASIST suicide intervention training and crisis response work Employment: - Clinical research at a cancer hospital - Clinical research at a children’s hospital - Mental health intake worker for patients with schizophrenia - Wet lab bench research student This was what I put for my Queen’s PSE, I submitted back in January 2020 but it worked out well for me :)

Hi everyone!! I'm so excited!! After my status got changed from waitlist to pending, I received an offer to Queen's AST!! This is my first choice so I will be accepting it, which frees up one more offer for McMaster ? Super excited because my heart dropped when I found out I was put on the waitlist back in April. The last day to accept some offers are in June, so I'm sure more will be coming! All the best to everyone still waiting out!

The same thing happened with my SOLUS, so I'm wondering what it means. A formal email was sent out about the waitlist status continuing until August, and this is my first choice so I'm hoping that waitlist offer hasn't been rescinded.

Hey all, yesterday I got accepted into McMaster's accelerated program!! I've been waitlisted to Queen's AST which was my first choice, and also got into York ? I'm an external applicant and graduated in 2017, and have been working full-time since then. My cGPA when I graduated was probably a 3.6/4.0, but I scored 90s in my pre-reqs which I took after I graduated (Anatomy, Psychology 1 and 2). McMaster's deadline to accept their offer in June 1st, so if anyone declines, I'm sure more offers will come through afterwards, really encouraging patience during this process and doing other things to keep your mind off of the anxiety of it all. Hope we're all keeping safe during this pandemic situation ❤️

Hey everyone! Has anyone heard from McMaster or for the second round of Queen's acceptances? Hope we are all staying safe and well throughout everything!

Hey all, given the current situation with COVID-19, is anyone considering (I don't know if it can be done) to defer their offer? I am lucky that I currently have a career right now, but I'm hesitant to give up that stream of income and pay $10,000 for nursing school that will.... likely be online. I know most programs don't start clinical placements until second semester but everything is so up in the air right now.

I received my offer Monday! And I'm an external applicant, I've been out of school for a while LOL

I just got an offer to York! ? Last year's GPA was around a 3.3 and cGPA is around a 3.6, but I have had three years of full-time experience in clinical research, so I'm super pumped I was considered even though that factor wasn't looked at!

Just a heads up to anyone who applied to York that they may be requesting some additional documentation for some of your pre-requisite courses! I didn't get a notification until I manually checked the admissions site and saw.

For folks applying to Queen's: Does your to-do list say completed? All of my things still say initiated, so I'm a little worried about the upcoming deadlines on February 1st ?

Is anyone writing the CASPER on January 14th? I need it for McMaster and York and the fact that this is the only part of my application that they're looking at outside of my GPA is kind of freaking me out lol

I was wondering if it would be worth applying to UNB/Humber's program, because I would then have OUAC and an OCAS account and not sure if it would be financially worth it? But nerves are getting to me a little

Hey, I used to creep these forums for the past few years and they helped affirm my decision to apply to nursing school for Fall 2020. I didn't see one started for next year so I thought, why not start one? I graduated a while back so I'm a bit older, but my top three choices are: 1. Queen's 2. McMaster 3. York 4. Humber-UNB