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Anyone here trying to apply to UMHB bsn program or is already a student there? all of the the posts here on the school are years old ?

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.

Hello,

I’m in the program now. I noticed there are no recent posts here too ?

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1 minute ago, polarSN said:

Hello,

I’m in the program now. I noticed there are no recent posts here too ?

do you start spring 2020? or already in.. lol i tried but no one would answer anything.. I cant believe you even replied to this haha! i got accepted for spring 2020

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.
1 minute ago, Roadtobsn said:

do you start spring 2020? or already in.. lol i tried but no one would answer anything.. I cant believe you even replied to this haha! i got accepted for spring 2020

Lol I just happened to find this site and I was interested to see if there was anything about UMHB. I’ll be in AB1 next semester

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wow thats nice ! how was your first semester? I am so nervous I don't know what I should expect or be prepared for because I don't know anyone that's in the program.

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.

The first semester isn’t too bad, but there is a lot of lab time. Some people pay less attention/don’t take the lab time seriously but it’s a huge part of your learning in the first semester. Essentials is fairly easy so long as you watch her voiceovers and take notes. Assessment is the harder course, but it’s easier if you read the book and take practice quizzes/tests. The biggest thing you can do for yourself is do a lot of practice questions because that’s how you will be showing what you know (tests in assessment and quizzes in essentials will be the majority of your grade and passing the class will be dependent on you maintaining a 75 exam/critical component average).

RegisteredNurseRN has a lot of good quizzes and videos over all kinds of stuff. The Evolve online resources also has test banks by chapter for most of the books you will be required to buy that are good too.

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18 minutes ago, polarSN said:

The first semester isn’t too bad, but there is a lot of lab time. Some people pay less attention/don’t take the lab time seriously but it’s a huge part of your learning in the first semester. Essentials is fairly easy so long as you watch her voiceovers and take notes. Assessment is the harder course, but it’s easier if you read the book and take practice quizzes/tests. The biggest thing you can do for yourself is do a lot of practice questions because that’s how you will be showing what you know (tests in assessment and quizzes in essentials will be the majority of your grade and passing the class will be dependent on you maintaining a 75 exam/critical component average).

RegisteredNurseRN has a lot of good quizzes and videos over all kinds of stuff. The Evolve online resources also has test banks by chapter for most of the books you will be required to buy that are good too.

did you do anything like head to toe assessment and things like that?

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.

Head to toe assessment is at the end of the semester. They break up the assessment class into systems. I think module A is like taking a health history, basics of assessment, and HEENT. B for us was cardiovascular, respiratory, and GI. C I think is musculoskeletal and integumentary? Neuro is in there somewhere too. I’m probably missing some and they may have revised it since I’ve done it. Basically you learn for 3 weeksish, then the fourth week you take a module exam in the lecture portion and then you have a practical in the lab portion. The practical is where you do assessments on one of your peers. It’s a focused assessment of whatever systems you learned about that module. Then you do a head to toe assessment sometime at the end. There is also Hospital sim which is your cumulative experience combining what you’ve learned in assessment and essentials in a 4 hour-ish sim. You demonstrate a focused assessment of your patient, med admin I think, and then an assigned skill you learned throughout the semester in essentials.

that was a very long answer sorry ?

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16 hours ago, polarSN said:

Head to toe assessment is at the end of the semester. They break up the assessment class into systems. I think module A is like taking a health history, basics of assessment, and HEENT. B for us was cardiovascular, respiratory, and GI. C I think is musculoskeletal and integumentary? Neuro is in there somewhere too. I’m probably missing some and they may have revised it since I’ve done it. Basically you learn for 3 weeksish, then the fourth week you take a module exam in the lecture portion and then you have a practical in the lab portion. The practical is where you do assessments on one of your peers. It’s a focused assessment of whatever systems you learned about that module. Then you do a head to toe assessment sometime at the end. There is also Hospital sim which is your cumulative experience combining what you’ve learned in assessment and essentials in a 4 hour-ish sim. You demonstrate a focused assessment of your patient, med admin I think, and then an assigned skill you learned throughout the semester in essentials.

that was a very long answer sorry ?

Don't worry ! I needed this right now haha, gives me a little of a headstart on what to expect. Thankyou!

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.

Of course! Best of luck to you!

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Hi, I just got accepted for Fall 2020 nursing, I'm a little nervous about the whole thing since I am a transfer student. Do you guys know if there is like a group chat for the nursing students to talk to each other? I really want to meet some people and try to find a roommate or something, I've been looking at the apartments on campus.

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.

Hey!

Every semester there are quite a few transfer students. You should be able to sign up for transfer connection through UMHB which should help you meet a few people. I don’t know how they’re doing it this year because of the coronavirus.
Even if you can’t/don’t sign up for transfer connection you will get to know people quickly through the program. There is a lot of partnering in intro which will give you the chance to meet people.

As far as on campus housing goes, most open roommates have bios that you can see through the roommate page on the housing portal. Most put their major so you could always look for the nursing ones and message on FB? I don’t know about any group chats though. Usually in intro someone starts a facebook page but that’s mostly after classes start and everyone gets to know each other.
Please let me know if I can answer any more questions. Congratulations on your acceptance!! ?

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