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Hiya folks!

It's a bit early, but since the application period opens in a couple of months, I thought I'd start this topic to share support/encouraging words/info/nervousness.

Is anyone else already excited for next September?

1 hour ago, lemon_1 said:

Yes I would highly recommend trying to do your best in the casper test as I am pretty sure they weigh the casper the most. I believe I got rejected because I scored 3/4 on it. 

I thought they weighed all 3 equally. Maybe someone who contacted admission knows? What did you rank in other areas? I got 1 on grades and 2 on supplemental and 3 on casper and was waitlisted in the high 70s. I also saw someone with my exact rank get in and get rejected so its all very confusing.

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For the last set of questions on the supplemental application (the ones on Indigenous people's rights), I assume the answer is supposed to be entirely off the top of your head? I am able to answer the question without looking anything up, but should dates/ names of people involved with the TRC, UNDRIP, or ISP be included, even if I had to research them?

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2 hours ago, Gymah said:

For the last set of questions on the supplemental application (the ones on Indigenous people's rights), I assume the answer is supposed to be entirely off the top of your head? I am able to answer the question without looking anything up, but should dates/ names of people involved with the TRC, UNDRIP, or ISP be included, even if I had to research them?

I looked everything up. I think it's best to be educated about this oppose to having to think on the spot. I didn't need to include names or dates though. 

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6 hours ago, Medsister said:

I thought they weighed all 3 equally. Maybe someone who contacted admission knows? What did you rank in other areas? I got 1 on grades and 2 on supplemental and 3 on casper and was waitlisted in the high 70s. I also saw someone with my exact rank get in and get rejected so its all very confusing.

I went to the information session and the answer to this question is that they will change the weighting slightly depending on the year's cohort. To my understanding if for instance  a cohort's average grades are lower, they may weigh supplemental and casper more. It changes slightly every year.

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On 11/11/2020 at 9:44 PM, aspiringnurse09 said:

It won't let me DM you for some reason ?

Hey! Do you have any tips on the questions on the Supp app that have a word limit of 50?

 

Hey, my email is [email protected] if you wanted to send it my way!  

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On 11/14/2020 at 12:53 PM, Medsister said:

Hi all,

I am a current UBC student in my 4th year and I am applying a second time this year. I was way down on the waitlist last time and didn't get in. 

I was curious what the schedule is like for people currently in the program?

Is everything online and you spend 2 days per week at a hospital?

Do you take care of covid patients? How many overnight shifts are you expected to complete as a student?

Thanks

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Current 2020 Cohort.
Our schedule for Term 1 is as follows:
Online lecture (synchronous) on Mondays and Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (with 1 hour break for lunch 12:00-1:00 p.m.). Then clinical practice (in-person is an 8-hour shift as early as 6:45 a.m. start) on Tuesday+Wednesday OR Saturday+Sunday. The weekday clinical practice shift in Term 1 have day and night shifts. Saturday+Sunday shifts are only day shifts from what I remember at selection. We do not take care of COVID-19 positive or suspected patients. Some of us have had our clinical placement shifts cancelled and switched to online live Zoom case studies with our Clinical Instructors due to the outbreaks (WEAR A MASK PEOPLE). For Term 1, you will be taking care of mostly adults and older adults and sub-acute/stable patients. 

Clinical Placements in Term 1: (you would rank all of the units and then an algorithm pairs you up to a place randomly...some people have gotten their first choice, second and third and also their last choice)
Holy Family Hospital, Louis Brier, Burnaby, Surrey Memorial, Langley, Peace Arch, Eagle Ridge, VGH, UBC Hospital, Richmond Hospital, Delta and units can vary from medicine, acute medicine, intermediate care, acute elder care, transition to home patients, rehab unit, stroke unit etc. 

In Term 1: You learn more about the Foundations and Fundamentals of Care, and a lot of your clinical practice will be bed baths, AM care, and medication administration (no IVs and IM stuff yet, only subcutaneous and oral meds)
 

I'm not sure about how many night shifts we have to do in total, but in Term 3 (May-July), we will have 12 hour shifts I think (I forgot what my CI said haha).

 

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On 11/9/2020 at 9:48 PM, Bluegleam said:

Good evening everyone,

Are we supposed to register for CASPer ourselves? Or should I wait for UBC for additional updates? 

Thanks for your help. 

 

I'm not sure how it works this year. But UBC sent me an email in October and told me to register for the CASPer:
"CASPer assessment dates are now available for reservation. Go to http://takecasper.com/test-dates/#testdates to register and schedule CASPer using your UBC student/applicant number. Applicants are permitted to write CASPer only once per admission cycle.
 
Make sure you register for Undergraduate Nursing CSP-10202 – Canadian Undergraduate Health Sciences test. You will be provided with a limited number of assessment dates and times. Please note that these are the only assessment dates available for your CASPer test, and that there will be no additional assessments scheduled. You may register to take the test in February 2020."

I took the second to last seating in February. I'm pretty sure I re-scheduled it once haha, I was going to take it in January but chickened out and then took it in February instead. It was not as bad as people said it was going to be, however, it would be good to practice your typing skills (I usually type 80WPM, but would practice a minute randomly here and there, I also cut my fingernails short so that I could type faster LOL). It's not bad, I went over the BeMo Youtube Videos and wrote some examples and did the practice test. ....it definitely goes by really fast and you sort of stay in a state of shock haha after the test.

It's OK if you don't finish all of your answers, I left my last ones blank on 3 questions or I got cut off by the timer. 

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9 hours ago, lissynursing said:

Hey,
Current 2020 Cohort.
Our schedule for Term 1 is as follows:
Online lecture (synchronous) on Mondays and Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (with 1 hour break for lunch 12:00-1:00 p.m.). Then clinical practice (in-person is an 8-hour shift as early as 6:45 a.m. start) on Tuesday+Wednesday OR Saturday+Sunday. The weekday clinical practice shift in Term 1 have day and night shifts. Saturday+Sunday shifts are only day shifts from what I remember at selection. We do not take care of COVID-19 positive or suspected patients. Some of us have had our clinical placement shifts cancelled and switched to online live Zoom case studies with our Clinical Instructors due to the outbreaks (WEAR A MASK PEOPLE). For Term 1, you will be taking care of mostly adults and older adults and sub-acute/stable patients. 

Clinical Placements in Term 1: (you would rank all of the units and then an algorithm pairs you up to a place randomly...some people have gotten their first choice, second and third and also their last choice)
Holy Family Hospital, Louis Brier, Burnaby, Surrey Memorial, Langley, Peace Arch, Eagle Ridge, VGH, UBC Hospital, Richmond Hospital, Delta and units can vary from medicine, acute medicine, intermediate care, acute elder care, transition to home patients, rehab unit, stroke unit etc. 

In Term 1: You learn more about the Foundations and Fundamentals of Care, and a lot of your clinical practice will be bed baths, AM care, and medication administration (no IVs and IM stuff yet, only subcutaneous and oral meds)
 

I'm not sure about how many night shifts we have to do in total, but in Term 3 (May-July), we will have 12 hour shifts I think (I forgot what my CI said haha).

 

Adding on to what lissynursing has already said, placements on Saturday and Sunday this term were all 7AM-3PM. There were some placements on Tuesday and Wednesday that had a majority of day shifts (7AM-3PM) with a few night shifts (2PM-10PM) and some placements had a majority of night shifts (2PM-10PM) with a few day shifts (7AM-3PM). Depending on your clinical instructor, the start time can be even 6:30AM. Most of my group members get to the hospital around 6:10AM so we have a plenty of time to do patient research. Each placement will be different but my night shifts have been from 1PM-9PM. Our instructor usually ends shifts earlier than 3PM and 9PM.

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Thank you for the responses about the schedule, super helpful! I thought you had to do some overnight shifts but I guess the latest you work is till 10pm? Or maybe the overnight shifts come later? 

Also, in your clinical placements, do you find any truth that "nurses eat their young?" Or have people been helpful and welcoming? Also, what's the age range in your cohort and do you feel like you have any free time? 

 

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13 hours ago, lissynursing said:

I'm not sure how it works this year. But UBC sent me an email in October and told me to register for the CASPer:
"CASPer assessment dates are now available for reservation. Go to http://takecasper.com/test-dates/#testdates to register and schedule CASPer using your UBC student/applicant number. Applicants are permitted to write CASPer only once per admission cycle.
 
Make sure you register for Undergraduate Nursing CSP-10202 – Canadian Undergraduate Health Sciences test. You will be provided with a limited number of assessment dates and times. Please note that these are the only assessment dates available for your CASPer test, and that there will be no additional assessments scheduled. You may register to take the test in February 2020."

I took the second to last seating in February. I'm pretty sure I re-scheduled it once haha, I was going to take it in January but chickened out and then took it in February instead. It was not as bad as people said it was going to be, however, it would be good to practice your typing skills (I usually type 80WPM, but would practice a minute randomly here and there, I also cut my fingernails short so that I could type faster LOL). It's not bad, I went over the BeMo Youtube Videos and wrote some examples and did the practice test. ....it definitely goes by really fast and you sort of stay in a state of shock haha after the test.

It's OK if you don't finish all of your answers, I left my last ones blank on 3 questions or I got cut off by the timer. 

Thanks for your thorough response. This is my first time applying so kinda new to the process. 

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17 hours ago, lissynursing said:

Hey, my email is [email protected] if you wanted to send it my way!  

Sent! ❤️ 

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18 hours ago, lissynursing said:

I'm not sure how it works this year. But UBC sent me an email in October and told me to register for the CASPer:
"CASPer assessment dates are now available for reservation. Go to http://takecasper.com/test-dates/#testdates to register and schedule CASPer using your UBC student/applicant number. Applicants are permitted to write CASPer only once per admission cycle.
 
Make sure you register for Undergraduate Nursing CSP-10202 – Canadian Undergraduate Health Sciences test. You will be provided with a limited number of assessment dates and times. Please note that these are the only assessment dates available for your CASPer test, and that there will be no additional assessments scheduled. You may register to take the test in February 2020."

I took the second to last seating in February. I'm pretty sure I re-scheduled it once haha, I was going to take it in January but chickened out and then took it in February instead. It was not as bad as people said it was going to be, however, it would be good to practice your typing skills (I usually type 80WPM, but would practice a minute randomly here and there, I also cut my fingernails short so that I could type faster LOL). It's not bad, I went over the BeMo Youtube Videos and wrote some examples and did the practice test. ....it definitely goes by really fast and you sort of stay in a state of shock haha after the test.

It's OK if you don't finish all of your answers, I left my last ones blank on 3 questions or I got cut off by the timer. 

I can confirm! I did the CASPer test on October 15, 2020.

Title: CA — ENGLISH: Undergraduate Health Sciences
Test code: CSP-10202-211
Admissions Cycle: 2020-2021

The above is what I can see, hope this is useful for anyone who hasn't taken it yet. 

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