Decker Nursing FAQs

Today we are joined by Nicole Flohr and Kelsey Hill. Nicole is the Coordinator for First Year Success and Kelsey Hill, is a former nursing student who successfully went through the Emerging Leaders Program.

This episode includes:

• Information on the Emerging Leaders Program
• Kelsey's experience in ELP
• What Kelsey learned from ELP that she still uses in her career today
• How often do students meet with their mentors
• Interest-based knowledge communities
• Leadership workshops
• Application process
• Connections to the local community

In this episode, Aaron and Carly Miller who is a Coordinator for Student Success Coaching discuss Success Coaching and what it entails.

Topics Discussed:

• Success Coaching overview
• How students can benefit from success coaching
• 1 on 1 session or a group setting
• The main skills that are focused on in a session with students
• How often students meet with their success coach
• Success coaching workshops or events
• How to make an appointment with a success coach

In this episode, Aaron and Cassidy Rozanski an Education Abroad Advisor discuss the process of studying abroad as a nursing student.

• The first steps that a student should take if they have decided that they are interested in studying abroad
• The application process
• How students can benefit from studying abroad
• The funding that is available to the students
• How students should prepare for studying abroad
• How do the students deal with their housing situation here at Binghamton University?
• How are the courses taken abroad verified that they will fulfill the Binghamton University General Education requirements?
• The most popular study-abroad destinations
• Are there any language requirements?

In this episode, Aaron and Jess discuss the NYC Connect event, which is an event that is open to Decker College students who are interested in exploring and networking with different hospitals and healthcare systems in the New York metro area.

Topics Include:

• An overview of the NYC Connect event

• How to prepare for the event

• Jess's favorite part of the event

• The Golden Ticket event

• Connecting with recruiters and alumni after the event

• Navigating New York City and Long Island

• Jess's most important takeaway from the event

In this episode, Aaron and Aly Novi discuss the importance of the Fleishman Career Center and how they can help students with their career searches:

• An overview of the Fleishman Career Center.
• How students can schedule appointments with your office.
• What are career clusters and affinity communities?
• What are some of the benefits of taking a career course?
• What are some examples of programs and workshops that are available to students?
• Are there any resources the Fleishman Center offers that students might not know about?
• Besides helping with resumes, what can Fleishman support Decker students?

In this episode, Aaron gives answers from Ann Fronczek about clinical placements:

• Where do students typically get placed?

• How many days a week are the clinical rotations during the junior and senior years?

• Do they rotate preceptors during capstone or do the students stay with the same preceptor?

• How has Covid changed the clinical placements and the capstone experience?

• Do students get to pick clinical placements with their friends?

• How far will students need to travel?

• What if a student does not have a car on campus how will they get to their clinical placement?

• If a student can’t make it to their clinical placement site on a particular day what do they need to do or what are their options?

• What is the number one thing that students will need to do to prepare themselves for clinical experience?

In this episode Aaron and Hannah (Former BAT student) discuss:

• Requirements students will need before they can sit for the NCLEX exam.
• The time it takes from after a student graduates until they can take the NCLEX.
• When to start NCLEX preparation.
• What materials to use to prepare for the NCLEX.
• When the results of the NCLEX exam get released.
• Employment prior to getting the results of the exam.
• Hannah gives her last piece of advice for the listeners who are nervous about passing the NCLEX exam.

In this episode Aaron and Hannah (Former BAT student) discuss:

• How Hannah felt when she first started the program.
• What the Summer semester was like.
• What the Fall semester was like.
• When things started to calm down.
• How Hannah managed to stay organized during her time as a BAT student.
• Clinicals
• The winter semester
• Working while in the BAT program.
• Capstone experience.

Today Aaron and Kaylee discuss:

• What an Externship is.
• When students should complete an externship
• When students  should start applying for externships
• How to find externships
• As well as other important information about externships

Previously we did an episode discussing how to apply to Decker as an IUT/Double Degree student.  Since that recording, there have been updates to the application process.  In this episode, Aaron will go into detail about the important update on the IUT application process.