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MellyMel, Hi! I am the president elect of the Tulsa OU Student Nurse Association for 2008-2009 and if you have any questions, please feel free to send me a private message and I can give you more information. I am a traditional student with a previous bachelor's degree. In the private message I can give you the reasons that I personally chose to go the traditional route. I know others who have much more on their plate than I do that are doing great in the accelerated program. It is up to you and how much you think you can handle and how quickly you need to get through the program. Hope to hear from you soon! Sarah

Congratulations on being accepted into the collaborative program! I am the president elect of the OU Student Nurse Association for 2008-2009 and if you have any questions or would like to meet with me or one of the collaborative representatives please send me a private message and I can work with you. We are excited to have you! Yes, things are disorganized at both campuses. The sooner you learn to be flexible the better... it's going to be like that when you work at the hospital and in life! Roll with the punches. It is frustrating but if you take it a week at a time you will do just fine. You will have 2 great representatives through OUSNA who will be available to help you with questions and/or problems and who will be great advocates for you. Again, please feel free to message me and I can share information with you and get you connected to the two representatives as well. Best Wishes! Sarah

I am currently a junior in the traditional OU-BSN program in Tulsa and our class has a lot of age diversity. I am 26 (about to be 27) with a previous degree from OSU Stillwater. I would say in our class of 50 that there are about 7 men (4 of them being over 35) and there are many married students, and probably about 8 female students have children and most of them are in their upper 30's. We also have some very young students who are 20 and about to turn 21. The class is fairly diverse in age, but not necessarily in gender or race. They have also told us that the Tulsa program is the hardest to get into, but I have had nothing but good experiences. The only thing that I would consider disorganized is the fact that we don't get our schedules until like a week before class. Also, the student nurse association at OU Tulsa gave us a study-guide CD with all of the objectives for each class filled out and study guides for each exam for all 4 semesters and tons of pharmacology charts. It has been very helpful and saved me a lot of time and allowed me to study more. Everyone seems to be very helpful and the students are not cut-throat and competitive with one another.

i know the accelerated program at the university of oklahoma is a 14 month program that begins in june of one year and ends in august of the following year. it is VERY condensed, time consuming, and intense. you take classes during christmas break and generally don't have any time off for the 14 months you are in the program. you also have to have a previous bachelor's degree to apply to the program. hope this helps!

hello, i am currently a traditional junior (non-accelerated and non-bridging) at OU-Tulsa and will graduate in May 2009. i have nothing but good things to say about the program. the professors are really helpful and pretty much have an open door policy and the clinical experiences have been great. you are in the hospital your first semester along with community experiences. this semester we got to draw numbers and sign up for which community experiences we wanted. OU students do their hospital clinical experiences at Hillcrest, St. John's, St. Francis, and Okmulgee (for those that want to do rural nursing--you volunteer for this rotation). your jr. year fall semester you will do just a med/surg clinical rotation, your jr. year spring semester you will do a more skilled med/surg rotation and also an OB rotation. the fall of your sr. year you will be in critical care/icu and also in psychiatry. in the spring of your senior year your give them like your top 3 choices and i'm pretty sure you act as if you are a new grad and you have a preceptor at the hospital you are at and you have way more hours to complete than previous semesters. as far as clinical experiences go, you will either do the longitudinal program (which is where you work at the OU physicians clinic near hillcrest and you do this community experience for all 4 semesters and you follow the same patients long term who have no health insurance and come to this free clinic with chronic illnesses--i think they only take 8 volunteers from each class--jr.'s and sr,'s). the other choices are the bedlam evening clinic, bedlam wound care clinic, bedlam diabetes clinic, healthy paseo's, OU physician family med clinic, bixby public schools and i'm sure they will have others by next fall. i do know that the professors said at the beginning of the year that the OU-Tulsa nursing program is the most competitive program of all of the OU Nursing programs (OKC, Lawton, and Tulsa). I think the acceptance rate at OU-Tulsa is like 1 in 5 but i'm not sure. i also think that they use a point system. there are no interviews, just the online application. i would highly recommend the program to anyone and we were told that the graduating class of 2007 had a 100% NCLEX pass rate (at least the Tulsa campus did, I can't speak for the others). hope this helps in your decision making and good luck in the application process!