U of C Degree holder/Transfer Route Nursing Jan 2016

fingers_crossed · Feb 13, 2016

Cultural studies sounds like it would qualify as an Arts course. In my experience, contacting the nursing office by email or phone to clarify eligible courses was successful. I can't list the contact information, but you can easily find it on their website. When I was in your position, I found that my emails were responded to promptly and they were able to give direct answers.

If you need an English course (if you already have an English course, I think you can take a second one to meet your arts requirement... although verify this), Athabasca ENGL 255 was relatively easy. Not super interesting, but useful for the papers you have to write in nursing school.

monde · Feb 13, 2016

@fingers_crossed, thank you. I will just contact the faculty directly. Many thanks

senzen5 · Apr 10, 2016

Hi guys, more questions!

What did you all use to calculate your GPAs for Calgary? My current program uses percentages only, so I am unsure if I am calculating correctly. My average is shaping up to be hovering around a 3.49 (scary!). I also heard the program does not provide as many clinical hours as say MRU does. Has anyone found a way to make up for it somehow? Also, would a job that's only part-time be able to fit in with the crazy schedule? I'd be an out-of-province student, so having some $$ for groceries would be nice!

ALSOOOO is the last term (Term 8) entirely practicum-based? Would I be able to go back to my home province and finish up there?

Cheers!!

codili · Apr 16, 2016

Hi @ fingers_crossed please i have a couple of questions to ask you about Bio235 of Athabasca University. I am about to do my 1st Midterm and i am really nervous and would like to know what resources you used and how helpful they were on the day of the exam. Thank you in advance

monde · Apr 16, 2016

Hi Codili. I wrote mine Dec last year and I must say you need not be nervous. It won't help. You need all the calm pls. If you can read in between the lines of the A &P textbook, you will be fine. Try note the labellings of the diagrams too. You need not cram. Make sure you read and understand the diagrams. If you did your quiz well, I believe the exam will be fine. Read the chapters over again if possible and use the keywords in the study guide to test yourself. I was nervous too but realised there was no need for that after writing it.

Best wishes.

codili · Apr 20, 2016

Hi Monde. Thank you for replying, i must say i am really nervous and this is because the first quiz i wrote i barely just got some marks above the passing mark and believe me this is the worse score i have ever gotten in my lifetime as student considering that i studied very hard. Like you rightly-fully said i need to stay calm, although i couldn't but help to wonder if there was something i was doing wrong.

jmcl · Apr 21, 2016

Hi Senzen,

U of C uses letter grades to calculate GPA, so even though my university's letter-to-GPA conversion didn't match U of C's, that's what they used. An A or A+ both count as 4.0, A- as 3.7, and so on.. You can probably find it somewhere on the university's website.

You could definitely have a job during the first 2 semesters, but terms 5 and 6 (year 3 of the program) are by far the hardest in the program, and while I know people who kept jobs, I wouldn't recommend it, just based on the amount of studying you have to do.

Yes, the final term is just practicum, and you can go out of province for it. There is a weekly on-campus meeting, but if you go out of province you just do something online with the other people who went out of province. They do say it's hard to find practicums in large cities like Vancouver and Toronto though...

Good luck!

Mydebarbie · Jun 6, 2016

Hello everybody, I want to apply to the university of Calgary for the nursing after degree programme. I graduated from University of Lagos in Nigeria with a bachelor degree in Physiology.will I be accepted into this programme? And I really want to know the tuition and other fees. Is an application fee required before applying? Hope to hear from you. Thanks

monde · Jun 6, 2016

@Mydebarbie, I would say as long as you have a recognized degree, then you can apply. There are a lot of people with Nigerian degrees that have been admitted. However, I would advise meeting all the requirements on U of C's nursing website to be considered for admission especially the prerequisite courses - Anatomy n Physiology, Arts, English and Statistics. If you have done them in your undergrad prog, then good for you. Else you can take extra classes to meet them. As for tuition, the breakdown is on the website. Yes you need pay an application fee.

kneuroknut · Jun 7, 2016

Curious if any of this year's cohort ended up leaving the program? I have heard they usually lose a couple to medical school - did that happen again this year? Hope everyone is enjoying it!!

iamsammist · Aug 31, 2016

I was trying my very best to meet the requirements for Winter 2017, but I don't think I have GPA 3.4 or above. I am giving up to submit my application for Winter 2017. I am currently taking courses to upgrade my overall gpa. The website mentioned that some of the admission requirements will be changed effective in Sep 2017 and it seems more challenging to get in compared to this year.

iamsammist · Aug 31, 2016

Don't you think they will lower the GPA requirement this year??