NikolaStankovic

Hey ambrr! In the first semester, everybody is placed in a long-term facility. Your clinical placement is part of the NURS1900 course, and in the case of the first semester, the first 6 weeks, on whichever day your clinical falls under, you will have labs instead. These labs are only to teach you the basics and are 3hr/week. Once those 6 weeks are over and you get your checklist completed, which is basically a set of skills that you have to have your CCD (instructor) check off, than you are ready to begin your clinical placement. So it's not until about the end of October that you begin with your placements. It's only 6 sessions in total until the end of the semester and it will pass very quickly. Before you get your CPP stamped, which is the documentation needed in order to be able to attend your placement, you will have a form that you get to specify in which area of the city you would like to work in. So for example, I live in the Don Mills area, so my options were North York as primary and Downtown as secondary. I know students come from all around, so there will be options such as Etobicoke, York, Newmarket, etc. However, don't frown if you do end up with a placement where you have to travel quite a distance too. I know currently in the program, a lot of the people have got what they specified for, but a lot of the students complain as well as they have to travel across the city to get to theirs. Whole point is, they ask you for your preferred location, but you might not be able to get it to your convenience. As for the facilities themselves, you don't get a choice into which one you get placed in, instead it's the NPCO office that does that for you. I know I mentioned a few more details on the FB page regarding what you actually are required to do in those 6 sessions in your long-term placement along with a few more pointers, so if you want more details feel free to check that out, or I can just copy and paste it. Cheers

Hey ld1101, From what I know, schedules vary from year to year. This is mainly due to our placements. The clinical placements are the ones that dictate on which days we will have our clinical days, and depending on that, York works out our schedule for the rest of the courses. With that said, I can't guarantee you which days you will have clinical/lectures, but I can tell you that you only have clinical/lectures 4 days a week. You get 1 day off in the week. To give you an insight on how my schedule went for the first semester: Monday - 11:30-14:30 (NURS1900); 14:30-17:30(NURS1950) Tuesday - clinical from 07:00-15:00 Wednesday - 08:30-10:30 (NURS1543); 15:30-17:30 (NURS1530-lab) Thursday - off Friday - 08:30-11:30 (BIOCHEM); 11:30-14:30 (NURS1511) Everybody's schedule was the same other than having the option to choose your 1950 lecture, which was either the 08:30-11:30 slot or 14:30-17:30 slot, and the 1543 lab, which had 3 options, 11:30-13:30, 13:30-15:30, 15:30-17:30. What I forgot to mention and probably the most important thing that will help you out is that York will give you a certain date that you can choose your courses, and I might be wrong, but that is most likely right after your YorkU appointment, which you should look to book right upon acceptance. Once you finish with that appointment, they will give you the access to plot your timetable.

Hey Karina! The first semester is not as hard as it may seem. Don't get me wrong, that doesn't mean that it's anywhere close to being easy, but everything is manageable and do-able. I think it's safe to say that every other person you ask will tell you a different situation that they found most stressful during these two semesters, but each to their own. Some might tell you that the transition from a whole different degree to a medical one has been the biggest challenge. Others might say that their essay writing skills are ridiculously hard to perfect to the standards required. And than you'll have some people whining about everything :). I personally find the program quite challenging, as I'm sure the rest of my colleagues can agree with, but I cannot say that there were any specific moments for me that I found irritably stressful. If anything, and this is literally speaking on behalf of pretty much everyone in my program, the most challenging part of the two semesters combined was 2nd semester's exam period, which consisted of 4 back-to-back exams (client centered care, pathophysiology, pharmacology, nursing theory), which believe me, was quite a lot of information to retain. I'm only mentioning this because I heard that each year the exam schedule is the same, so I'm only giving you a heads up in what to expect :). But anyways, like I said before, the first semester itself is not as hard as it may seem. If the biochemistry course is what you are worried about, than don't :). It is the only course that is not mandatory in the sense that if you previously took biochemistry than you don't need to take it. However, my suggestion is that if you took it before hand... take it again. It is the one course thus far in the program that many of my colleagues and including myself have found to be easy marks. Besides the easy marks, the professor makes all the material that he teaches so interesting that it was literally the only class that I kept awake in, even for an 8:30AM class. Other than that, I ended up with an A+ in the course with just 1 full day of studying before each of the 3 exams for the course... which like I said, should not bring you any worries as it's that easy, and it's literally free marks :). In regards to the other courses, I can go into specific detail if you would like me to for each one of them as what you might expect, but in general, first semester is definitely more essay-oriented in terms of marking, where as, the second semester hardly has any essays.

Greetings future fellow nurses :) I'm a bit of a lazy bum, so I did not bother reading through the first 12 pages as I assume most of the questions and concerns have already been answered. However, I do intend to follow the discussion in this topic from now on and I will be more than happy to answer any questions you guys might have. Before starting off, I would like to introduce myself first. I am currently in the 2nd entry program at York. I just finished my 2nd semester of the program. So like I said before, I am here to answer any questions you guys might have regarding the acceptance process or if you have already been accepted, than what to expect in the upcoming semesters. You are more than welcome to contact me either on here or on facebook. Before I'm most likely overflown with answering questions (that is just an assumption ) I would like to ease all your minds first. York is... well... different. In some ways it's better, and in some, it's worse. For example, I finished my exams a bit over 2 weeks ago, and it's not until today that the final grades have come in. Point is, if you think that's slow, than you have not met our admissions office. Our admissions office is extremely slow. The reason why I decided to just now start looking at this topic, because it's not until now (when the final grades come in) that a lot of the acceptances start to roll in. I can almost guarantee you that up to now, hardly anybody has been accepted, other than a few of the A/A+ averages, which I can assure you, is hardly anyone at all. So if you are there sitting behind a computer stressing out, biting your nails, and spamming the refresh button every so often... don't :). Relax a bit, because honestly, you shouldn't even be remotely stressed at this point as their acceptance process has hardly even begun. Cheers! ps. I wrote a much better post that took me a good 20-30 minutes to write up, except that I pressed the "leave a comment" button instead of the "post comment". So forgive my lack of empathy in this current post since it hardly took five minutes to rewrite it in the sloppiest way possible of what I could remember mentioning lol

I received my acceptance as well, finally!

Hey rajm, sorry for the late response, I was out of the country for a week. I just finished my last semester at York, so I automatically thought that I would be considered as an internal applicant, but it seems that it isn't so. Since I just graduated, they categorize my application under the external pile. My cGPA is a borderline B (unfortunately C+), and last 30 credits is a high B+.

Congratz to everyone that got in :). I'm still waiting for mine . Last week I was 5th on the wait list, so I got my fingers crossed. Btw, do you guys mind sharing what your cGPA and last 30 credits were?

Oh that's weird, got no inbox. Try add me up as a friend maybe.

Oh they told me that if I applied through OUAC I still count as an internal. The only reason I had to apply through their is because I also applied to UofT and Trent as well. And I think you got the wrong FB page :). Try searching "nikola.stankovic.716" :).

I applied through OUAC. Just finished my undergrad this semester, and since I applied to York, UofT and Trent, it was all through the OUAC.

Yeah I"m still waiting and stressing out as the days pass by.

My apologies than. Would have been of help however .

@Vanesserdeala. First of all congratz on the acceptance :). I remember the other day you posted an e-mail address of the person that helped you, and I was wondering if you can post it again. My marks won't be "officially" in until next week, so I'm trying to speed up the process as well for them to get looked before hand if possible. From what I can tell links aren't allowed, so just space it out . Thanks in advance :).

Congratz :). I received my final marks on Monday and went to the OUAC site to request the final transcripts, so I'm hoping the decision arrives soon, because the suspense is already killing me . HopefulN, mind me asking what your cGPA and your last 30 credits were?