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Paco-RN, that sounds nice! Congratuations, wish you the best now with the next phase, the job search, best of luck.

That 2 credit elective you are talking about for the 2 year BSN students can be done many ways. The first winter period they offer some clinical like classes, but the senior's usually gobble them up. They there are things like an end of life course ...

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Pretty competitive, the standard 2 year is about 6 or 7 hundred applicants for about 60+- spots, I think the accelerated is fewer applicants but still very competitive ( I am not 100% sure if there are fewer applicants I have not heard that from any ...

In general you do one day 0700 to 1500 or so at University Hospital. The majority of folks go on Thursday but there are a few other options like 12 hour weekend tours etc. Depends on the clinical professors and what hours they want to do.

I used a place in Smithtown as they offered the BLS for Healthcare Providers class several times per month so it worked with my crazy schedule, here is the link. I forgot the price, in the neighborhoos of 70 bucks or so. The instructor did a nice j...

I am the last person to ask about clothing options (wore a uniform for 28 years). I think you can wear white pants from anywhere they tell you they have to be nursining pants. They say something about wearing white nursing shoes, they discuss this ...

Mindylane, sorry to hear that news, best of luck on what sounds like a pretty crazy adventure...

Yes there are a few clinical options for that first semester, then again for the third (not as much choice on your part during that 3rd sem though). For this fall though, you can choose for example, Thur. 8 hour, Weekend 10 and 12 hour, etc. It sor...

Your first day they will have you go to a lecture hall and will be briefed all day, get id's, and get a ton of information thrown at you. The first couple weeks there are a million little things to do. You will be given your schedule for both years ...

The titres are to see if you have immunity to certain diseases, like measles, mumps, etc. If you don't have proof of innoculations (when I got mine pencil and paper had not been invented yet and it was too much trouble for the doctor to write the im...

Nice job Paco, i put a note on the fall 2012 blog for folks to take a look at all your work over here. Great information.

Folks, in case you didn't see it, Paco put a fantastic summary of classes/text/ and many other issues to guide your decisions under the accelerated class of 2013 blog it is right on the money!!! Paco awesome effort, I concur. Also make sure you sta...

Private group is a good idea, we use our's all the time for sharing info. Finally I can say congratulations, so glad that the decisions were finally released. Welcome to SBU SoN! See you in the Fall.

BioD I wrote on the other blog that I did not get my acceptance email for a day or two after they started comeing out. Perhaps I had a kink in my internet cable that slowed it down???? Best of luck to all, kudos to your patience!

I know it doesn't mean anything but last year I did not get an acceptance email til a day or two after they started coming out. Congrats to those who have heard good news, good luck to you that have not heard yet, and my regrets to those who got bad...

BioD, don't feel too bad about it, I had to do something similar last year and as soon as I received and invitation to SBU, I called Suffolk. It took about a half hour before I got to log on to allnurses and someone was already saying they had just ...

On the other SBU thread for the one year 2013 group it looks like the RN to BSN folks have started to hear. That is some progress. :yelclap:

I am sure they did most of the selection process already. All the Professors look like a weight was lifted off them today, they were under the gun to get everything right for the accreditation review. Now they can get back to the all the tasks that...

I am in the two year now, and they generally take 60, I think they said there were 600 to 700 applications for those spots. My group actually started with 70, I believe they got approval for the ten extra spots at the last minute. I feel for you ha...

As far as hearing back at the last minute if your are waitlisted... there are folks in the program that got a call the day the program started to say "Get here as soon as you can." So the waitlist is literally up to the last minute. Good luck to a...

There sure are quite a few SBU students, but I don't think a disproportionate number. I have rather varied background but also did my prereqs at Suffolk. SBU of course has a rep as a tough science school and it is true, but you did well in your pre...

Hi Folks. I am in the first year of the 2 year Basic RN program at SBU SoN. I just happended to ask two days ago about the decision status for the class of 2014 and the answer was that "We are working on it now". Seem like they are ahead of last y...

Paco, great to see your comments. Everyone I hear from seems to echo your sentiments about the great staff at SBU, and the great experience. Sure doesn't fit the stereotype of a large public university... which of course is good news. Enjoy your ...