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They don't for the most part. You have other classes in traditional lecture form for research and stats but those don't come until 3rd year. It is challenging and it is frustrating but you learn to deal with it. Most of what you need to know you take in during clinical experiences which is why it's important to seize every learning opportunity offered to you during that time. CBL was a challenge to work through but like I said, I feel like in the end it did help.

I just graduated a few weeks ago, I've been applying and am internal but nothing came up so I'm heading to Saskatchewan. I got the mentorship program at the CCU and a permanent full time position. It's bad right now, I hope it improves but because they're focusing on hiring more LPNs maybe you have a better shot at employment?

I just graduated from the program and I wanted to address a lot of the things being said. The "too posh to wash" item I've never heard in my life, first year at the U of A will kill you if feel that way. There are many people who enter nursing and use it as an option to move onto other things and they may have this attitude and they're not exclusive to the U of A. As for nurses preferring students from one program to the other, it depends on who you talk to. Some nurses may prefer one over the other but should you really listen to people who assign all students in a program into a category based on limited experience? The program itself is a challenge to adjust to, especially straight out of high school. I did the same thing myself, just know that you're essentially teaching yourself and you're responsible for your own learning. Don't rely on group work or the group compiled research and don't take a lot of the brainstorming topics seriously because there's quite a bit of stupid stuff that you have to research. Know about client, growth and development, pharm, physiology, and how you would use the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, goals, interventions and rationale, and outcomes). For what it's worth I was in the last year for GM transfer students and many of them had no experience writing care plans and you'll have that at the very least. Just remember to stay calm and know that you'll be alright, first year is by FAR the hardest and if you ever need anything please feel free to message me. Also your mark depends heavily on who your tutor is, so try to get on their good side but don't brown nose. Just demonstrate good critical thinking skills and an ability to understand the material and issues at hand and you should be fine but if you run into a witch just bear with it and know that even if you get a C, it's not the end of the world. I personally appreciate CBL because it's given me the ability to educate myself which is very important, as a nurse it's your job to keep up to date on the latest advances and evidence, it's hard to know that you're paying to teach yourself but many, many good nurses have resulted from the CBL program. Best of luck to you :)