SFSU/Sequoia program 2015

Hello all, any updates? Just wondering if anyone wants to meet either this weekend or next. Maybe a cafe in the peninsula. Let me know!

Hello all, any updates? Just wondering if anyone wants to meet either this weekend or next. Maybe a cafe in the peninsula. Let me know!

Same here, no updates yet after clicking on the "accept admissions" link in mysfsu. However, I had called the undergrad admissions office to verify that everything was confirmed and they said it was, and that they would be sending out the letters of admission within the week or 2.

Otherwise, there is no news or email yet from Catherine or SFSU itself.

Any news yet from the others?

Thanks for the scholarship info space monster. I'll have to check that out next year. kind1, I can't meet up until June. May is just crazy full with my job and my son's school commitments.

I haven't seen a FB group yet but hopefully will soon. According the SFSU academic calendar, the current cohort finishes final exams May 22nd. So maybe we'll see a FB group started after finals.

I am in a similar situation as 3doodle with kids' events, work, and general life stuff right now. I also work as a CNA on Sat./Sun. every other weekend, but if you hit me on the right weekend, I'd love to meet up!

Ok, sounds good. Maybe we'll shoot for the end of June :)

Sometime in June could work for me as well. Late June I will probably be traveling though.

Kym

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

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

Hi Tara,

It's great to have you here and congrats on getting into the program. I can't wait to learn everything you know about the program. I would love to meet up sometime. How is mid-June for everybody who is interested in meeting up? And it is better to meet up on weekday evenings or some time on the weekends? Good luck to those still hoping to get accepted.

Jen

The weekend of June 13/14 looks good for me, if that works for others. I should also have time closer to the start of classes.

Anyone heard anything new? Very curious about our class schedule for fall, schedules for the program and hospital orientations, etc. I know the program administrators are probably busy getting through the end of the school year, but I hope we get some details soon!

Hi Tara! I know you IRL and sent you a PM. Nice to see you on here!

Hi all! No new updates yet...

Space Monster, I can meet either Sat 6/13 or 6/14 as well. Others, let us know if either of these days work for you, too!

Getting excited…

June 13th/14th works for me. I'm pretty open that weekend.

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