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In Baltimore, we have a lab section for both Health Assessment (Nurs 333) and Fundamentals (Nurs 304) (which we call Fundies). These take place in our simulation labs. In Health Assessment lab you work on one body system each week, learning how to perform the exam and document your findings. The point is to learn how to do a comprehensive head to toe assessment, which you will eventually demonstrate on a standardized patient (who is an actor) in the exam room simulation lab. You will also have various times where you will have to perform things like vital signs or an assessment on one body system leading up to the head to toe final so you get experience with the skills and lessen your nerves on performing these skills on real people. You will also have little homework exercises to do each week. The grades you get in this lab will be combined with your grades in Health Assessment lecture to give you one Health Assessment grade. In Fundies you basically learn all of the CNA and basic nursing skills. So you start with things like bed baths, transfers, and wound care and then move on to things like medication administration, catheters, and tracheostomy care. At the end of the semester you get your CNA license so long as you get a C or above in the Fundies course. There isn't really any homework assignments you need to turn in but you will have to do online quizzes most weeks related to the lab and then brief papers at a couple of points. Like Health Assessment you will have checkpoints where you have to perform skills. These are called validations. I don't want to overload people with information too much but in these you walk into a room, are handed a scenario which will include between 1 and 3 random skills you have learned and then you are videotaped doing these skills. Your lab teacher reviews the video and lets you know if you passed or failed. We don't get grades for these and honestly it's not a big deal if you have to revalidate other than having to spend practice time in an open lab and then the 30 or so minutes itself to do the revalidation. For me I had both of these labs on the same day of the week with one for two hours in the morning and the other for two hours in the afternoon. The number of people in lab with you varies depending on what group you're in (it's always small like less than 10) but you will be with the same group of people for both labs for the whole semester and then likely for clinicals first semester too. These labs are the same for every student with the only difference being time and instructor(s). Some people chose to register for a group that had Health Assessment lab on Mondays after our Health Assessment lecture and then Fundies lab on Tuesdays after Fundies and Research lectures. For these people it meant longer days but one day less a week of having to come to school for scheduled class. This week is our first week of clinicals. Once clinicals start you will not go to labs anymore. For some people clinical is on the same day they had lab, for others it's on a different day. Many people are with the same group of students and the same instructor they had for their labs. Also, clinical sites and groups are assigned to you just for first semester, but like I said you are usually at least with the same group of people, you just don't get to pick where you go. Starting about a month into school we also had what is called communication module, which is a component of Fundies, for 4 consecutive weeks on Monday afternoons. There are several sections of this that they will divide the class up into and give you your group once school has started (these groups are around 20 students). The communication teachers are different for each section but other than that the same information is taught, we all write the same papers, and are graded on the same rubrics. This seminar is where you will learn how to communicate with patients. After the last week you will sign up for a time to do a patient interview in the exam room simulation labs on standardized patients. This is another pass/fail type of thing but I'm pretty sure most people pass because they prepare you very well. If someone did fail though you would just have to do if again but it wouldn't affect your grade at all. That ended up being a lot of information but just in case there were other people who were interested in knowing how things worked I put it all out there!

Hi everyone! I'm a first semester student at the Baltimore campus and I just wanted to say congrats to everyone who's gotten in so far! I remember how excited I was when I got my acceptance not too long ago and how many questions I had. Feel free to message me with any questions you have about classes and whatnot! Also, it's a little while away but I just wanted to invite everyone to join the UMSON textbook group as well if you wanted to get used textbooks (which I highly recommend): https://www.facebook.com/groups/417729608298302/

Hey guys, I was accepted last semester and ended up choosing a different school, but I saw this thread and just wanted to let you know they do still offer the WHC scholarship. You'll eventually get an email to apply for it (I don't remember when exactly), and then you email an essay to the coordinator at WHC. If you choose to apply for WHC you go to an information session and then meet and greet (which was a wine and cheese party for us haha) on Friday at GU with everyone and then Saturday you take a tour of WHC and do your interview with all of the other people who applied to WHC.

Can someone post the link? It's not showing up when I search

I'll be coming from the opposite end near hunt valley for the light rail.As for scholarships I know they were offering merit scholarships that you would have been told you got during your phone call. If you weren't offered one of those you might want to look for scholarships from other sources like the state of Maryland

malinois, I plan on taking the light rail too! I'm a little nervous about the walk to the school from the Lexington Market stop though (w/c I think is the closest one).

But I'm sure they'll update the website soon and that that will give you definitive information

I'm not sure about the date of orientation but for the forms my letter said I had to return my enrollment form within two weeks and that my other forms had to be in by orientation. The calendar on their website said classes start January 23 so I'm guessing orientation is either earlier that week or the week before.

How do I pay my deposit online? Do I need to wait for my letter to come in the mail first?

Yay I'm so happy for everyone that's gotten in so far! I cannot wait to meet my Baltimore classmates in January! I was accepted to a few others programs before this but my excitement really didn't compare to that of getting in to UMB. When they called they told me they would be sending out packets in the near future...I'm anxious to get started with everything that needs to get done and feel that getting this will make everything more real. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for everyone still waiting to hear!

I got in! Baltimore campus! So excited!

Wow already!? Congrats!!! What campus? I'm still at committee ready...

Check your email! I just found out I got in :)

The scholarship was available for Spring 2013 when I applied so I'm not sure why it's not listed on the scholarship page anymore.

300 applications for how many spots?