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Just off the top of my head, did your community health rotation in school include any state/federally funded programs? For example, in my pediatric rotation, we got 3 clinical days of Headstart, a federally funded comprehensive health and wellness program for low-income preschool-aged children.

Let me know when you guys hear back! I am so excited for you! (I think it was mid-April when I heard last year?) The nursing office is super busy so even I'm not 100% when they are announcing, but I know it is on their priority list. In nursing, wherever you will go, you will hear "be flexible!" a ton so get used to hearing that @dunce I saw your email and it's on my radar to get back to you. Sorry, I've been super busy with school and work. I'll try to answer your questions in like the next week or so. You can leave me more here, or send a follow-up email or text as you have questions. I'm rooting for you!!!!!

Hi guys, I'm sure you rocked your interviews! Due to the ongoing application process, I can't discuss the interview content until the admission decisions are released, but I will do my best to address the rest of the questions I see here... Feel free to message me on allnurses and I can give you my email for more individualized questions. To answer the questions you have asked: 1. Do you have to take any classes at the SFSU campus (like certain upper division courses needed to graduate)? I had to take a cinema class over winter through SFSU, but I chose to take it online. It's more expensive to take classes through the College of Extended Learning ($1080 for 3 units) if you do want to take classes during your breaks, but it lightens your load significantly during the semester. My cohort is waiting to hear back if we will have to take any more upper division GEs or if the nursing curriculum alone will be sufficient to cover these requirements. We have been told that in the past, our Nursing Admin coordinator was able to arrange a class at Canada with an SFSU professor (something like Chinese Medicine or Holistic Health) for those of us who didn't already have a Bachelor's degree and needed those credits in order to graduate. 2. Also, did you have to drive all around the area to different hospitals? OH YES. Expect to drive to south bay, east bay, and to the city throughout the program. For your community health screenings/rotation during first semester, you will be up in the Tenderloin most likely at different low income housing site. Try to find carpool buddies that live near you or get a Clipper Card for the BART. It really came in handy for me. For my current cohort, the Clinical Coordinator tried to do her best to place everyone at clinical sites kind of close to their houses. For example, I'm at Washington Hospital for Labor and Delivery and I live in SJ/Milpitas so that's only 15 minutes away from me. However, for my other Psych clinical I'm in San Mateo, which is a good 45 minutes away. Other groups are at Sequoia, SF Kaiser, and John George in San Lorenzo this semester, for example. They try their best to accommodate everyone, but clinical sites are competitive for Bay Area nursing schools so you do have to be somewhat flexible (You will hear this A LOT in nursing school ) I hope that helps answer that question. 3. Finally, the program is only two years right? SJSU and CSUEB have 3 years programs, is this one accelerated? Yep, the program is shorter that Cal State East Bay's and SJSU due to the change in curriculum 2 semesters ago. The SFSU program at both Canada and main campuses is now 4 semesters instead of 5 with summers off. There are no more pathophysiology and pharmacology individual courses, but instead you now get a little bit of each component in your core theory classes. For example, you learn cardiac drugs and disease processes altogether in, say, Med Surg theory and take a Metrology test at the beginning of each semester before you can do med passes in clinicals and have to pass with 90%. Start studying your Med Math, by the way! I found this book really useful:Calculate with Confidence, 5e (Morris, Calculate with Confidence): 978

Hi all, I am the incoming President of the Nursing Student Association (NSA) for 2016-2017 for the SFSU Sequoia Program at the Canada campus. I am trying to get an idea of how our current class (and incorporating both campuses) can best be of help to the incoming class and other future pre-nursing students and SFSU applicants. Please let me know if you have any questions about the application process, current curriculum or nursing school in general. Good luck with your applications/interviews! Tara, Cohort 12

Hi all, I am the incoming President of the Nursing Student Association (NSA) for 2016-2017 for the SFSU Sequoia Program at the Canada campus. I am trying to get an idea of how our current class (and incorporating both campuses) can best be of help to the incoming class and other future pre-nursing students and SFSU applicants. Please let me know if you have any questions about the current curriculum or nursing school in general. Good luck with your applications! Tara, Cohort 12

Hi Jen! I have a few more updates about our program in my reply to space monster that will I hope you will find helpful! I am working most weekdays in June at Sequoia (7am-3pm shift) but my schedule is also free most weekends including the 13/14.

Hi spacemonster! I saw your PM and also sent you a text IRL :) I was not allowed to respond to the PM directly as I don't have enough posts on AN yet; that will probably change soon :) Regarding schedules.... I spoke to Stacie who is a graduate nurse on my unit and Cohort X President of NSA and when their Cohort began, they were not notified of their class and clinical schedule until the first week of August... Yikes. :I I saw floating around that our nursing orientation will be late July? This makes me glad as I will be coming home right then from a medical mission! Perhaps at this time our schedules and classes will be organized and distributed. Purely speculation. I was told by Sheri that it does take a while to secure clinical locations as we are competing with about 10 other bay area schools for clinical sites, equaling hundreds of undergrad and graduate nursing students! However, I found the SFSU schedule generator from mySFSU. The application is called Gator Scheduler. I was looking at the classes from first semester to plug into the search engine; you can find the full curriculum here: http://www.nursing.sfsu.edu/sites/sites7.sfsu.edu.nursing/files/Sequoia_New_Nursing_Curriculum_Roadmap.pdf You can also play around with your class schedule: https://sfsu.collegescheduler.com/spa#terms/Fall%202015/options I think that these classes may only apply to the main campus... I'm not sure if we have the same class schedule as main campus as all our theory and lecture will take place at Canada. We do follow the same academic calendar as SFSU though. Very rarely do some of the SIM lab check offs occur at main campus for us, as we have pretty nice facilities right at Canada. Sheri also told me we will start our clinical rotation about 5 weeks into the semester after our first skills check-off. With the implementation of the new curriculum, we are back to starting in a SNF (skilled nursing facility) to practice the fundamentals of nursing care on residents. Helps some of our folks with non-medical backgrounds get their feet wet and ease us all into the world of nursing. We will also be participating in community health fairs as part of our wellness and health promotion rotation. This I am particularly excited about, as I would love to go into public health nursing! To those of you who feel you can balance work and school along with other commitments, but are not CNA certified, I highly suggest looking into working as a tech during nursing school. I have been a CNA for about 2 years and have seen a lot in the hospital setting! It's really invaluable experience, and most of the nurses I've met love to teach and show stuff to students. After you complete your first semester of nursing school, you are eligible to test for and become certified as a nurse aide in CA without having to take the class. It's really invaluable experience :) Hopes that helps! Cheers space monster and all

Hi all, I am also accepted to the Fall 2015 Cohort and head the Pre-Nursing Club on campus at Canada College. I work per diem as a CNA at Sequoia- perhaps could meet up somewhere in the peninsula once my finals are over in June. Can't wait to meet you all! Just spoke to Sheri Sassarini last week at Pre-Nursing Club's last meeting regarding the preceptorship in the last semester. Good news- they have not done away with the preceptorship/leadership rotation completely. It is true that we will likely be precepting with several nurses as opposed to one; not to worry, if your clinicals are at Sequoia, I work a fantastic group of nurses that also precept students! Thanks also for the update from Cohort XI. Best to all, Tara

Simply, my mother. My mom is the most amazing woman I know who worked and saved from the time she was 18 to get her ADN degree and RN and even as a small child I remember her working graveyard shifts on MSO, coming home to sleep for a bit, and STILL being able to balance a family and having time to help out with my brother and I in our classrooms. It amazed me the quiet strength she had, her ability to connect with people, and her infinite knowledge of the human body she was always ready to share. Plus, it was always so much fun to break out Mommy's nursing bag and play with the medical tape or stethoscope! From then on I knew I wanted to emulate her. Thus began my interest in medicine. As a teenager, my interests bounced around from veterinarian to orthopedics; all I knew was I wanted to help people. Soon after, I began volunteering at the hospital where my mom worked in as a CIC, in infection control and prevention. Her wealth of knowledge grew even more to all kinds of microbes; it amazed me how many things could ail the human body. They even called her the bug lady at work :) I noticed how much respect she garnished from her peers, how much dignity she carried herself with, and how fulfilled it made her to share her knowledge. As I rounded on patients with her, checked hospital equipment, and washed my hands more times than I could ever count, it became clearer and clearer that the hospital was my calling. Later that summer of 2011, I was able to accompany my mom to the annual national convention of her nursing specialization. I saw the broadest possibilities nursing could open up for me as a career. And that's when it clicked; if I really wanted to heal people so badly, nursing would be my calling. It was right in front of my face the whole time with my mother leading by example. I never looked back. Fast forward four years later, and I am getting ready to apply to nursing school this fall at 20 years old. Right at the hospital where I received all my informal training. Funny how life is seldom what you plan. I'm ready to do you proud, mom.

Hi sscofield, I am in the same boat as you, there has been a lot of talk about uniting the pre-nursing students at my community college. How did you go about recruiting members and organizing your club?

Does anybody have advice on starting a local chapter for your school? I am currently an NSA member but am not associated with any campus. I would love to bring this kind of network to my campus to help out all the pre-nursing students. (My situation is unique; I am at Canada College which has an RN-BSN program through Sequoia hospital linked to SFSU. If this applies to anyone or you have advice please reply below so I can start a new thread specific to Canada-SFSU Nursing Fall 2014-2015.) I just contacted the SNA President at SFSU for the Canada program but unfortunately, due to club bureaucracy on the campus Pre-Nursing students are unable to attend these meetings. So, this is the reasoning for setting out on my own to create a Pre-Nursing Club :)