UCSF MEPN 2018

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  1. Which UCSF MEPN specialty are you planning on applying for?

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      AGCNS
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      AGCNS - Oncology
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      AGPCNP
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      APHN
    • 5
      FNP
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      HPN
    • 3
      CNM/WHNP
    • 0
      OEHN
    • 3
      PNP
    • 5
      PMHNP

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A place for individuals applying to the UCSF 2018 MEPN program to contact each other, share information, support each other, and provide advice.

I'm interviewing on 1/26 in the morning as well! Looking forward to the meet and greet around then. Excited and nervous!

Don't be bummed @acires, I personally would love to meet up with you. Thank you for offering. Would your schedule allow you to come to the 26th Meet and Greet that SJ is currently setting up if it is close enough to where you are on campus? That way you can meet the majority of us in one go and not have to set up individual meetings. I'm sure SJ won't mind since you already had your interview the week before?

That works for me! Definitely keep me posted.

Hey all, I'm a current MEPN - FNP specialty. When I was applying, I found it so helpful to chat with current MEPNs about the program, so I thought I'd offer up the same. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions. I'm also open to meeting up for coffee etc. during interview time. Good luck! I'm sure you will all do great.

Emerson28, thank you! That is so kind of you. I was actually just thinking how useful it would be to speak with a current MEPN student! I can't PM you yet because I guess you have to have 15 posts to PM people here. Is there another way we can get in touch privately? If not, I just have two questions, which I can just ask here if you're ok with it! 1) Academically, what is your favorite aspect of the MEPN program? 2) What demands should future MEPN students expect?

@acires good luck!!!!

@acires good luck!!!!

Thanks so much! Same to you!

Specializes in Midwife, OBGYN.

Before the interviews start tomorrow for the first group of MEPN applicants, I just wanted to say best wishes and the very best of luck to everyone.

I hope to meet all of you one day regardless of where our lives, schools, and nursing takes us. Thanks for coming along for the ride. You will all be in my thoughts tomorrow. Let us know how it goes if you have a spare moment once your interviews are over.

Good luck again and all the best to all of you!

Best of luck to all of you interviewing tomorrow! Collective deep breath.

Good luck!!!

Yeah I had orientation today and already like a bunch of people I met (and I really like the director a lot, she also interviewed me). To be honest the main thing that would keep me at Sfsu would be guilt over taking a spot and then ditching out. Don't know if that's a good basis for such a huge life decision? But it is also just the kind of person I am, so I dunno. I can't be the only person here in the same boat...?

@ yawp and anyone else who may have your same plan of taking a spot then dropping out if you get into another program:

Please thoroughly consider how your actions will not only effect those of us on the waitlist, but your future career as well. Your classmates, professors and faculty will all be your peers and potential supervisors when you enter the nursing field. And people talk. What will this move say about your compassion, ethics and integrity?

You are taking one of the precious few seats in a nursing program, knowing you will drop out if you are accepted to UCSF, thereby preventing another future nurse from starting her/his career-possibly even ending their dream of nursing. Your spot goes to waste, SF State loses 2 years of tuition money when funding is already dangerously low, their attrition rates look bad, and most importantly, there is one less nurse in the field in 2020 when there's a critical need for nurses. The ripples of your actions radiate far beyond SF State or UCSF.

One of my friend's classmates at SMU did exactly what you're doing and dropped out of SMU when she got into UCSF. She has yet to find a job because word got around about what she did and nobody wants to hire a nurse that would do that to her classmates, school, and waitlisted peers. Its antithetical to everything nursing should be.

You have the option to defer as a back up in case you don't get into your top choice school. I understand that this could be a financial burden for you IF you don't get into UCSF, but you have no idea what kind of situation the first person on the waitlist is in. They have to wait another year of applying to god knows how many programs and spending money they may not have with no promise of getting in anywhere next year either. For me personally, it means waiting another year to start a family, and since I'm in my late 30's, I may not be able to have children if I wait another year. This is taking a massive toll on my relationship, as we never expected it would take years just to get into a program. The possibility of jeopardizing my chance of having children is enough to make me seriously consider giving up on nursing. Nevermind that I cannot financially afford to wait another year or more to start a program. I'm just one person with one life, but imaging all of the others on the waitlist. You have options. You have UCSF. You can defer SF State. The person on the waitlist wants SF State more than anything. They will accept and they will finish the program and go on to be a wonderful nurse in 2020. It's not a place holder for them.

But as you said, guilt shouldn't be the basis for this life decision. It should be compassion. Integrity. Morality. And I think that's exactly what you should base all of your life decisions on. So I'm begging you to do just that. You have until tomorrow to act with compassion and integrity. Do the right thing. Defer SF State so you aren't preventing someone else from starting their life. Or just do it for the karma.

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to share my experience from yesterday's interview day. I had a really wonderful day and met candidates in my selected specialty and beyond. The day began at 8am with some food which was nice. SJ and the MEPN Assistant Director also spoke to us in that 8am-9am hour. We were given specific slots for our interview (9am, 10am, 11am) along with the name of the faculty who would be interviewing us (we were not given the name of the community nurse, but they will also be there). We were also given the opportunity to tour the School of Nursing, campus or just chill out. I'm not sure how the afternoon interviews are scheduled or set up, but I assume it's similar.

The meet and greet was scheduled later in the afternoon so those of us who interviewed in the morning were able to go off and relax. I was able to go and cry lol from the relief that it was finally done. There were students there from most specialties to speak to us and answer questions. We also got fed again which was nice.

I'll be there next Friday if anyone wants to meet up or ask questions. I look forward to meeting as many of you as I can and wish you the very best as you come to the end of your applicant journey and the beginning of your nursing one.

Specializes in Midwife, OBGYN.
Hey everyone,

I just wanted to share my experience from yesterday's interview day. I had a really wonderful day and met candidates in my selected specialty and beyond. The day began at 8am with some food which was nice. SJ and the MEPN Assistant Director also spoke to us in that 8am-9am hour. We were given specific slots for our interview (9am, 10am, 11am) along with the name of the faculty who would be interviewing us (we were not given the name of the community nurse, but they will also be there). We were also given the opportunity to tour the School of Nursing, campus or just chill out. I'm not sure how the afternoon interviews are scheduled or set up, but I assume it's similar.

The meet and greet was scheduled later in the afternoon so those of us who interviewed in the morning were able to go off and relax. I was able to go and cry lol from the relief that it was finally done. There were students there from most specialties to speak to us and answer questions. We also got fed again which was nice.

I'll be there next Friday if anyone wants to meet up or ask questions. I look forward to meeting as many of you as I can and wish you the very best as you come to the end of your applicant journey and the beginning of your nursing one.

Thank you for sharing @acires! I'm glad you had a wonderful experience. Did they they ask the standard questions during your interview? Why a nurse? Why a midwife?

How was parking if you drove?

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