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Is there any updated information? I have been in heavy contact with them and am looking at taking their RN-BSN program. I work with a GCU grad and she has nothing but positive things to say, but I want more opinions. ?

Any pro's and cons? Thankfully the only class I'm missing is stats and that is offered in the actual BSN program. I'm a bit nervous as my algebra skills are way old. If anyone took this class, do you have any advice?

Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
All of my articles are really different and some of them do not support my practice change. Some of them deal with adults, pregnant women, and some deal with children. Maybe that is why mine was so long. I couldn't find 15 articles on only adults.

Maybe I will print mine out and cut it up. That's a pretty good idea!

In the big momma, do we need to have such a detailed literature review included? It doesn't look like it on the rubric. It seems more audience based, as where the lit review seemed more like a project for my own understanding.

The rubric includes abstract, problem description, solution description, implementation plan, evaluation plan, and dissemination plan. Where would the lit review even go in there? In the solution description?

The final paper seems like it will be complicated for me. I decided on doing my project on increasing continuous glucose monitoring usage. This seems like it would be most appropriate to implement in the primary care setting. Do you think I need to contact local facilities?

Ahhhh. Maybe I wont pass and I will have the opportunity to do this project again but with a more interesting topic. That would be the silver lining.

Once that lit review is graded, it will be submitted in it's entirety in the paper itself, right after the conclusion (I had to open up my paper and look). The last part of the paper is the reference.

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.

No, you don't have to contact anyone to implement your pretend program. I think the school wants you to know the steps of research and implementation. :)

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
Here's a tip for those of you starting Cap. Maybe you'll find this helpful, maybe not, or maybe you'll just think I'm crazy. IF I had the first 2 weeks to do over again...

In the FIRST week I would secretly do week 2's full-on Review of Literature FIRST. Just buckle down, read through them all, and do the giant assignment. Then, copy it over to another document so you have two identical giant papers. Then, pick one and whittle each paragraph down/summarize each article into a couple sentences and turn that in the first Sunday as the Sources of Literature assignment. Then you're done with week 1 and you have week 2's paper all ready to just submit the next weekend. Here's my rationale:

I feel like I did the same assignment twice, except week 2 was much much much worse. In wk 1, I read too much into each article, and it was really hard to mentally condense it down into just the few sentences they wanted. Then when wk 2 came, I had myself so confused (15 articles is a LOT when they're all basically about the same thing), I found myself re-reading all of them and basically expounding x a million on what I just did in week 1. Does that sound backwards to anyone else? :banghead:

Yep, it sure does and I have always wanted to suggest it, but didn't want to be blamed if people spent hours on a lit review that was incorrectly formatted, so I kept my mouth shut. I was so sick of those freaking articles by the end of those five weeks.

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Trends is done, thankfully! The first week of Capstone is done. I did not think I was going to be able to do it! I just finished reading week 2s assignment and sure wish I would have read it last week as I would have done week 2s assignment and cut it down for week 1s. My problem is that I barely got done what I did. I'm so sleep deprived, it's going to get worse I have a feeling! And with that....ZZZZzzzzzz

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.

Get some decent sleep Winter. :) Remember, you are almost finished!! You can do this.

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Specializes in UR/CM, Managed Care.

This instructor defies reality. I turned my paper in last night at 2335 and I had a grade back when I logged on this morning. Maybe this is my reward for all those Sunday nights I sat here still waiting for last week's grade before I clicked 'submit' on the next one? And just hoping it would be okay and that if I totally bombed last week's that I didn't make the same mistakes on the one I'm about to turn in? Unbelievable. If I wasn't so tired I'd do a happy dance. Really, I'm enthused, you just can't tell `cause my Enthus-O-Meter is busted. :sleep:

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Starting my 13 month online RN - BSN at GCU on Monday 4/13!!! Anyone on here starting as well? I am kind of excited!

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
This instructor defies reality. I turned my paper in last night at 2335 and I had a grade back when I logged on this morning. Maybe this is my reward for all those Sunday nights I sat here still waiting for last week's grade before I clicked 'submit' on the next one? And just hoping it would be okay and that if I totally bombed last week's that I didn't make the same mistakes on the one I'm about to turn in? Unbelievable. If I wasn't so tired I'd do a happy dance. Really, I'm enthused, you just can't tell `cause my Enthus-O-Meter is busted. :sleep:

Ain't she great? She actually reads them too. I turned in one short paper and, no joke, she had it back to me in less than four hours.

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
Starting my 13 month online RN - BSN at GCU on Monday 4/13!!! Anyone on here starting as well? I am kind of excited!

I'm a grad from nearly a year ago (May). Just wanted to say welcome!

Hopefully someone will come out of hiding and you can go through together. I find another AN and we even made sure we were in the same clc together. It worked out very well.

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Specializes in UR/CM, Managed Care.
Starting my 13 month online RN - BSN at GCU on Monday 4/13!!! Anyone on here starting as well? I am kind of excited!

:grpwlcm:

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How did you like it? I work full time, but have no other obligations other than my husband and pup :) I hope I can manage it...

I'm a grad from nearly a year ago (May). Just wanted to say welcome!

Hopefully someone will come out of hiding and you can go through together. I find another AN and we even made sure we were in the same clc together. It worked out very well.

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Specializes in UR/CM, Managed Care.

My Life at GCU (inspired by SpelaD's enthusiastic first comment)

Have to do this more than one post `cause AN said so.

Which school should I go to? :down: :unsure:

:idea: GCU!

Transcripts sent... :anbd:

Letter of acceptance

First day of class :anpom:

Second day of class :sstrs:

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