UBC 2020 Nursing

bubbletea2019 · Aug 2, 2020

Hi,

I'm having trouble finding a place that offers standard first aid training with BLS CPR. Can someone send me a link to a website that offers this?

lissynursing · Aug 8, 2020

On 8/2/2020 at 3:19 PM, bubbletea2019 said:
Hi,
I'm having trouble finding a place that offers standard first aid training with BLS CPR. Can someone send me a link to a website that offers this?

To clarify, we need CPR-BLS and no Standard First Aid. You will only need to register for the CPR-BLS course. If you want Standard First Aid as well, that is a separate course that you need to register in, but we don't need that.

aabc145 · Aug 9, 2020

Can I ask what kind of volunteering/extracurricular experience everyone had when applying? (those that got accepted and ones that got waitlisted and what your supplemental number was).

Because I thought I had pretty diverse extracurricular but I got a 4 on my supplemental ?

Litsa · Aug 9, 2020

Hi did anyone who is #32-34 got accepted from the waitlist yet?? I had lost all hope until someone who was #31 got accepted recently LOL.

bsnstu · Aug 9, 2020

2 hours ago, Litsa said:
Hi did anyone who is #32-34 got accepted from the waitlist yet?? I had lost all hope until someone who was #31 got accepted recently LOL.

I don't want to sound like a bummer but I was looking at the schedule recently and noticed that both sections are full

https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=sttspec&tname=sttspec&dept=BSN&sttsubj=&sttyear=3

im assuming this means that all the spots are filled... perhaps someone decides to drop last minute and a seat will open up.

best of luck to those who are still waiting or applying to next intake

jell0 · Aug 9, 2020

9 hours ago, aabc145 said:
Can I ask what kind of volunteering/extracurricular experience everyone had when applying? (those that got accepted and ones that got waitlisted and what your supplemental number was).
Because I thought I had pretty diverse extracurricular but I got a 4 on my supplemental ?

I volunteered at a hospital in the oncology ward, wellness walker (walking seniors in their neighborhood), and some childminding all under VCH. I wrote mainly my leadership experience as a bank teller and being part of a team of students who taught food sovereignty and food insecurity to children. I’m also very passionate about sustainability and worked with a team to devise a plan with council members to reduce single-use plastics and waste for the City of Vancouver. For my interests I wrote how I fell in love with powerlifting..

honestly I think it comes down to how you wrote it. I tried to relate how each of my activities make me a good nurse or how this outcome/lesson drove my desire to become one. Simplifying this example I wrote I helped my badminton team win regional championships and I was awarded MVP so I decided to take on a managerial role next season. I attended many injuries which made me realize my want to care for others at an early age. For the last personal essay I wrote something related to my experience as a cancer care volunteer and a very personal and heartfelt story attached to it. Equally as important I tried to let admissions know that without a doubt nursing is a career for me. Hope this helps a bit!

I got 1 on my supp and was waitlisted

aabc145 · Aug 10, 2020

7 hours ago, jell0 said:
I volunteered at a hospital in the oncology ward, wellness walker (walking seniors in their neighborhood), and some childminding all under VCH. I wrote mainly my leadership experience as a bank teller and being part of a team of students who taught food sovereignty and food insecurity to children. I’m also very passionate about sustainability and worked with a team to devise a plan with council members to reduce single-use plastics and waste for the City of Vancouver. For my interests I wrote how I fell in love with powerlifting..
honestly I think it comes down to how you wrote it. I tried to relate how each of my activities make me a good nurse or how this outcome/lesson drove my desire to become one. Simplifying this example I wrote I helped my badminton team win regional championships and I was awarded MVP so I decided to take on a managerial role next season. I attended many injuries which made me realize my want to care for others at an early age. For the last personal essay I wrote something related to my experience as a cancer care volunteer and a very personal and heartfelt story attached to it. Equally as important I tried to let admissions know that without a doubt nursing is a career for me. Hope this helps a bit!

I got 1 on my supp and was waitlisted

Do you mind me asking what number you got on the waitlist or if you are off the waitlist now?

ja.ello · Sep 3, 2020

Hi!

I was wondering if anyone knows of any good healthcare volunteer or part-time job opportunities that I would be able to do during quarantine. Either online or in-person, in greater van. I was suppose to begin volunteering at the hospital but due to covid the position is postponed.

Just btw, I am going into my second year at UBC for biology and also planning on applying into nursing. ?

Thanks ahead!

AUT · Sep 4, 2020

I'm not sure if there is a UBC Nursing 2021 page so I'm going to ask my question here and I hope someone could answer this for me:)

I am wondering how the recent 30 credits are calculated?

For example, my 4th year courses & my 3rd T2 courses are 27 credits.. which means they will have to count one of my 3rd year T1 courses to make the 30 credits. Would they count the highest? the one that's written latest on my transcript or will look at my entire term 1 mark?

Litsa · Sep 6, 2020

Hey just coming here to say that I was #35 and I got admitted into the program on Wednesday! Hopefully more people on the waitlist can get offered a spot by mid-Sept ?

2021RN_hopefull · Sep 9, 2020

On 9/17/2019 at 12:19 AM, gemini11 said:

Hi everyone!! This is my second time applying, I ranked in the top 50% for my supplemental last year, grades and CASPR ranked top 75%.

Hey gemini11! I am applying to the fall 2021 intake! Just wondering if you have any advice. I have the minimum requirement for human physiology (C-) and am too late to retake the full credit at this point. I will be applying with around a 3.2 and all my other prerequisite courses are fine. Do you think my low mark will give me trouble when applying?

brquvy · Sep 17, 2020

On 5/3/2020 at 9:19 AM, meowmeow said:

The biggest thing would be my grades, I improved from a 72 to almost 88! I took courses I wanted to take during my undergrad but couldn't, some courses that seemed personally interesting, and some just as plain GPA boosters. I think that did the trick. It sucks that grades is a big component to a lot of things, and everyone I found around me was always so worried about grades (at least in ubc I find), particularly because many things use grades, but this isn't like high school where effort = the reward, rather acing the exams. ? I was forced to take a prerequisite at BCIT over the Summer and thought it was going to be a pain because the registration in early February filled up within 10 minutes - but was honestly the biggest breath of fresh air since leaving high school, the atmosphere in the school was so supportive, encouraging, relaxing, etc. that I would 100% go to BCIT in a heartbeat if it weren't for the delay by a semester/UBC is a shorter program. I already did physiology at UBC but didn't have the lab component, but even though I thought the material was going to be the same, I was still able to learn so many new things that UBC didn't cover (ie. the non-theory aspects).

For Casper, I did not take notes or follow any advice. I did browse some online posts (I was planning to do more thorough reading but because of classes I just ended up not having any time, especially since my test was in November) but the only thing that stuck with me were a few sentences from some comments: try to explain both sides of the issue, pick a stance somewhere in your answer. Please take this with a grain of salt, but I think the key to Casper is having a fast typing speed, because the more thorough your answer is, it might help paint a better picture. Could be disadvantageous to some if this were true, but I went in with a more positive attitude because I've read on the site that the test is not very studiable nor tutorable (Casper's research has shown no significant differences), and because Casper is also from McMaster U, the MMI brainchild, I would think it would be more fair to people like me that aren't that strong at interviews. Although in the end I did the Casper, I felt as if someone kept dragging me into so many dramatic situations that I didn't want to get into!

The only thing that puzzles me and my classmates during the Summer at BCIT was that 1) the news has mentioned in the somewhat distant past there is a lack of nurses, 2) nursing competition in local Vancouver schools has gone up quite a bit - see VCC's 4 year waiting list, Kwantlen temporarily stopping to accept its health foundations program, 3) nursing is an in-demand profession in BC, but 4) seats have not increased? but I've read that recently BC has invested in BCIT post-RN specialty training by giving it funding but I sometimes wonder who is responsible for the allocation of seats for health profession programs and are they not evaluating the current changing needs of the society and the ever-increasing strain due to more demand for healthcare access (ie. mental health awareness, opioids, etc)? just my 2 cents rant. The only explanation I read is due to hospital allocation/spaces, but that seems to be a side effect and not a primary cause ($?) But also, perhaps I might be misguided that it is not an actual lack of nurses, but rather specialty nurses instead.

Hi! I wanted to ask you about admissions GPA. I have been taking post bacc classes, will these courses be included in my most recent 30 credits GPA? Even though they have been taken after completing my degree? I haven't be able to find the answer to this and UBC hasn't responded to my emails. It sounds like you did this and they accepted your post-degree courses? Please let me know if this is the case thank you!