Grand Canyon University RN to BSN Reviews

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Howdy all, I bit the bullet and after much research, I decided on Grand Canyon! Wow, I did not expect BSN schools to be like used car salesmen--hounding me by emails and phone calls. Rather impressed on how Grand Canyon sort of left me alone, but at the same time kept in touch.

Commence my first class Sept 30th, excited, yet very nervous, as I'm not a big fan of school, LOL! I did extremely well on my Associate degree, graduated back in 2009 from Northern Virginia Community College. We shall see.

Would love to hear from past and present Grand Canyon RN to BSN students.

Specializes in NICU.

Yeah, there are classes that have more than 1 paper due a week, or more than 1 project due a week.

I think I will be able to pull it off... I don't mean to brag (because I barely passed nursing school, lol) but my world record is writting a paper, from first looking at the signment to turned in in just 90 mins... and I got an A! lol. sorry,

I was honestly wondering if this school is just too easy because I hardly have trouble pulling in A's... except in statistics. How has everyone else's experience? Getting good grades is hard work, but do you think the school is a little easy sometimes?

I wish I could complete my essay that fast! It takes me a long time to do my research and find articles that have what I want. I am only in the second class so I can't really say whether the school is "easy" per se. I definitely think I am earning my degree as the workload is very busy and I am definitely learning research and APA.

Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
I think I will be able to pull it off... I don't mean to brag (because I barely passed nursing school, lol) but my world record is writting a paper, from first looking at the signment to turned in in just 90 mins... and I got an A! lol. sorry,

I was honestly wondering if this school is just too easy because I hardly have trouble pulling in A's... except in statistics. How has everyone else's experience? Getting good grades is hard work, but do you think the school is a little easy sometimes?

You don't have to apologize for writing quickly. I could pound out a paper too if I didn't have 5 kids at home, work 40 hours a week and have housework and tending to one kid that is special needs and needs help with basic ADL's. I'm also just very meticulous and like to have things worded the correct way.

Are the classes easy? It depends on what you think is easy. Some of the 'easier' classes for me are those that I have had previous exposure to somewhere in my life. The leadership and management class was easier for me, but I also have a lot of experience in that area with LEAN, executive summaries, etc. Others who have never had that exposure might be very befuddled with those classes, never having exposure to them. Still, those easy classes were a hell of a lot of work for me. This school has taken a lot of time away from my family. I'm also one of the rare ones here that actually reads most everything because I want to EARN my degree and LEARN something, not just do the minimum and have a diploma handed to me. That is doing disservice to myself and the profession.

Some of the papers in the early classes are fairly straight forward....Follow the Rubrik helps a lot

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

Yes they are Flames, and they seem to ramp up toward the end. I also want to say that there is a lot of really good stuff in the reading. There have been times I have thought about doing some serious skimming, but thought the best of it and delved in a bit more. I read some stuff I never would have known otherwise, even with being a nurse for well over 20 years and having the leadership exposure that I have, along with my certification. I love it when people brag about not reading yet become angry when they aren't learning anything... Think about that. :confused:

always something to learn! I don't brag about not doing all the reading,lol I find myself reading more and more. But I also do a lot of online research about the topic.

Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
always something to learn! I don't brag about not doing all the reading,lol I find myself reading more and more. But I also do a lot of online research about the topic.

I do a lot of online reading as well, if I can't get the info from the book, or not enough to support my cause. There are times, the book piques my interest that I want to read further, so I will Google.

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

Hey JRich,

Are you surviving Patho?

Specializes in NICU.
Hey JRich,

Are you surviving Patho?

Oh man I am so flustered with it right now. The case study where we have to put the teaching plan into it is just driving my mind crazy. I'm so nervous about how my teacher wants it done, if I am getting it in APA format correctly, if the teacher wants it in paragraph form or like bullet points. oofda, too much stress.

How is capstone this week?

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

That is the kind of instructor you nag with questions. Do you want this...or that...what about this?? I pester the heck out of them. Ask Pandora, how many questions I have asked ;).

Patho, overall isn't a difficult class, too bad she is making it this way for you with the APA stuff.

Capstone: Meh..it's going ok. This Professor likes GOOD APA and will knock off a point or two for errors, however she corrects them for you (if she can) and all you have to do is click accept changes on Word and they are fixed. She seems pretty fair and gives EXCELLENT instructions, so she makes this paper heavy class (as is to be expected) doable. Pandora and I are spinning our wheels trying to keep our heads above water and keeping it organized though. Just when you think you are on top of one paper, you realize you have another one in the wings that needs to be written and all those extra pieces to do. It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the volume of work. The papers themselves are not difficult though people seem to be struggling with their research articles.

Specializes in NICU.

Oofda, I hope I can keep my head afloat long enough to make it through like you. I understand how APA is so important, but I think some go overboard. And I would like the teachers to be consistent on what it is they want. Since some of them seem to change their APA rules

Hello all; I've been reading this thread and wondered if someone could give me clarification on GCU capstone course? I'm in spirituality now and have 4 classes left. I was under impression capstone course consisted of just writing a very long paper..is it actually formatted the same as all the others, with DQ's, CLC's, papers due every week, etc?

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