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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?

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I am so tired and need a week to sleep... Did I mention I am tired?

It's coming! Only 2.5 weeks away! I think I actually did sleep for a whole week (not counting refreshing LC q5 minutes to see if my final grade was posted yet, of course). After THAT you will indeed sleep like a baby!!! :sleep: :sleep: :sleep: ZZzzzz......

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So has anyone noticed that the color group assignments ever change after the first couple days of class. The three people I was worried about have been changed. Only one of them is still in my group. It even gets better, everyone has checked in and state they wish to get going 2 weeks early. Could this be the best CLC project yet? I hope so for my final one.

I think only once, and that was because people had dropped the class, so the prof had to make changes..... I never had a truly nightmare group...and in the 1 case 1 gal did nothing was to our benefit and she was smart enough to keep her mouth closed, but 1 group was pretty much perfect...everyone showed up the 1st day the colour forum was open and I think by day #2, we had the topic picked and everyone had their taskings.....It was sweet, and everyone finished early, it was amazing,lol Almost made 1 want to sign up for GCUs Masters program and tackle more CLC projects...almost...lol

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Hello all... please assist with instructors for capstone, hlt 308 and amp 450. I don't who or which professor is best to take.

thank you so very much for any guidance.

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How does the A, A- grade thing work? Is it going to lower my GPA? I'm asking because the teacher finally turned in my grade for an assignment I completed two weeks ago, and gave me a C, for unjustified reasons (she failed to recognize the "changes I would make to my personal practice" since I had written them in third person instead of first). Don't get me started. I had high A's on everything else, but ended up with an A- in the class because she gave me 0/40 on that section of the rubric for not addressing that portion of the content. I have a pretty strong case (all I have to do is change "The nurse should" to "I would" for a paragraph), but don't want to label myself as a troublemaker so early in the program if it doesn't affect my GPA.

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I could be wrong, but I wouldn't worry about labeling yourself as a troublemaker. The Univ is so giant and there are so many zillions of students and instructors, I doubt that (in the flurry that is online learning) anyone would recognize your name from just simply appealing a grade. A zero on any section of the rubric is pretty harsh, in my opinion. Did it say specifically in the assignment description that one should write in the first person? if not I think I would challenge that because even the tutorials from the Writing Center say it is bad form in academia to write in the first person. I think I remember that paper though, I think I did write "me" and "I", which was a hard transition after being told not to!

Regarding the GPA: Go into your student portal and on the left side click on Academics, then View My grades. Mine doesn't work anymore because I'm done (YAY!!!), but I remember there being a field that you could enter the grade you expected for your class and it would calculate your cumulative GPA. Those may not be exact instructions; just play with it because I know it works. I was on that page every time I thought a prof was going to tank me LOL

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It's coming! Only 2.5 weeks away! I think I actually did sleep for a whole week (not counting refreshing LC q5 minutes to see if my final grade was posted yet, of course). After THAT you will indeed sleep like a baby!!! :sleep: :sleep: :sleep: ZZzzzz......

Yeah, and the feeling you're forgetting to submit a paper!

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Specializes in Cath Lab, Case Management.

Sorry I've not been around good to catch up! I shall be walking Saturday night so you all tune in and look for the crazy red head! :snurse: :nurse: :D

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Sorry I've not been around good to catch up! I shall be walking Saturday night so you all tune in and look for the crazy red head! :snurse: :nurse: :D

Enjoy!!

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Appealing my grade worked. :) When the instructor said the still couldn't see how my paragraph answered the question, I went through and changed everything to first person, and underlined the sections that I kept from my original paragraph. I guess third-person was too complicated for her?

Anyway, I'm in 434 now and am a little stumped on the children's functional health pattern assessment. We are supposed to breakdown normal and abnormal assessment findings for three age groups: toddler, pre-school aged, and school aged. Examples are nutrition patterns, elimination patterns, activity/exercise patterns, etc. I'm just a little stumped. Most of the literature I come across breaks things down much more broadly: infant, child, adolescent, adult. How do I break it down in the weeds so much? Like for nutrition, if I identify potential nutrition problems, they would be like koilonychia (spoon nails from anemia), but all those age groups would be susceptible to it. I know some of the them can be age specific, like anorexia could only be found in school-aged, but most don't seem to be age specific. Anyone have any guidance? I'm going to ask the teacher too, but so far she has been spectacularly unhelpful to people's questions.

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I think you're overthinking this (welcome to the club, btw :cheeky:)

Use the book for the class, it's all in there, it's the only reference I used. Mine was 7th edition (health promotion through the lifespan), but I just updated my booklist and there is a new 8th ed so that's probably what the syllabus recommends for your newer class. The book talks specifically about toddler, preschool aged, and school aged (chapters 18, 19, 20). Inside each chapter it says what is normal for those stages & potential problems, etc.

Remember to put Erickson's Developmental Stage for each age group at the top of each column (may have to Google those, I don't think it was in the book - which is weird).

Update - I just noticed that the syllabus has the assigned book for the HA class as Jarvis, but I used Edelman & Mandle for this assignment; had everything I needed. Prof probably didn't even notice?

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Specializes in UR/CM, Managed Care.

Just saw Winter walking across the stage on the commencement video from tonight! WooHOOOOO! :anpom::ancong!:

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Specializes in Cath Lab, Case Management.

And now I am done. And going to bed. I shall sleep all the way home. :laugh:

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