U. of Oklahoma Accelerated CA BSN program @ Glendale Adventist

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Hi Everyone!

I'd love to hear from anyone who is enrolled in the 14 month University of Oklahoma BSN program in CA, which meets at Glendale Adventist Hospital for its clinicals. I'm seriously considering this program and would be very interested to hear whatever feedback you might have.

Thank you so much!!:heartbeat:typing

Hi OU09GRAD-

I was desperate enough to commute to San Diego too! Well, I haven't been accepted or denied yet, but I'm planning to go to the open house this Thurs. I was wondering if you thought that it's worth purchasing the e-books.

Good luck with finals!!

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Specializes in Emergency/Trauma.

We don't have to be at the hospital and the school site more than 3 to 4 times a week (during clinicals) so commuting isn't horrible. Most of us live between 1 and 2 hours away from Glendale. It's do-able. I purchased the e-books and it was definitely one of my better purchases. I absolutely recommend it. I can't remember exactly how much it was, but it was like 400-600 more than if you had bought the books yourself through discount websites. It's the books for the first two semesters, and I believe there is another e-book package for the last two semesters. If there is I will definitely buy that one too.

We didn't get our official acceptance letters until the day we were at our open house, so we didn't know what our status was until that day. They basically said if we were invited to attend the open house than we were in, but that could have just been for our co-hort. Good luck to you!

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Ok, thanks. It sounds like a worthwhile purchase. Also, thank you for helping to ease my anxiety. Now I can sleep until the open house to hear about the decision :)

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Don't worry, I didn't get my acceptance letter in the mail until about a month before classes started, may have been even less than that. I thought it was insane considering how much stuff we had to get done before we had to start school. The open house was really the deciding point I think, I just kept telling myself why would they bother have me buy books, uniforms, do my immunizations if I wasn't in?

In response to the small # of students in the cohort, it was stated in class that it was because Glendale Adventist couldn't handle more because they already have so many students in clinicals from other schools. San Diego has a larger cohort because they have the whole sharp system (something like 5 hospitals) to spread their students out with, whereas we only have 1 hospital.

Just know that when you start this program it may seem easy, but once you get used to it, they turn up the dial and make you really question if you can get through the program. I truly believe if it wasn't for my classmates and their support and our cohesiveness, that I would have given up. But it is truly a great opportunity to get through nursing school with a BS in only 14 months, especially when there are waiting lists a mile long all over CA!

The ebooks and a laptop were the best purchases made for this program, and a good stethoscope. the ebooks were more expensive but it beats carrying a ton of books with you to skills lab, and you can take them on your laptop wherever, and it gives you more freedom. It's pretty sweet, the ebooks allow you to highlight, search the entire text by just typing in words so you can scan quickly, and it clumps all the highlights together so you can print out the notes. Worthwhile purchase, and you can also sell back your brand new books to others and make some money.

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Does anyone share the ebooks?

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