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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.

Top choice is Frontier Nursing University in Kentucky. Going for Women's Health NP. If our assignment isn't completed by the time I need to do clinicals I plan to pack up as much as possible and head back to the US. Presently it is looking like we will be heading back around the time I would start to do clinical work.

Many of my staff have asked me if I was going to do management... I just ask them if they see me in management. There is always a chuckle, and they tell me they think I would be good, but then again I stand up for my girls and speak my mind, so may not be the best option. :roflmao:

Cool! 30+ yrs as a nurse and still going...good for u! I looked at a few MSN programs for chuckles, many of them do require clinicals, which I have no desire in doing.... When I get back to the USA...will b eno more school..just work,lol I prefer to keep my life as simple (stress-free) as possible. Good luck with ur Masters

I wish 1 could see the marks people get for the DQs, as a fair # of the replies are total BS! If they want to do these DQs, then each student should get assigned their DQs.....one would learn a great deal more.....instead u get 20 students answering 2 DQs, then everyone pretty much saying the same stuff over and and over and over............

Specializes in Case Management.
As mentioned, I did not have to take Ethics and community health, so at 1st I was told I only had to take 10 classes..sweet. Then they told me I needed 12...to have the min # of credits one needs to obtain their BSN....thus I took 2 "anything" classes...still nursing related and had to be approved. ( I took HLT 317 and AMP 450)

But yes,listen to Prism,and find out exactly what is going on before u start!!

I too am taking some electives, and it happens to be AMP 450 and HLT 317.. GCU accepted sone of my transfer classes so I have several electives also have HLT 308 Risk, I look forward to that class. I want to pretty much overlap these classes. Do you feel that they are difficult or time consuming to dbl up together. Please tell me there are no CLC with these 2 classes .

I too am taking some electives, and it happens to be AMP 450 and HLT 317.. GCU accepted sone of my transfer classes so I have several electives also have HLT 308 Risk, I look forward to that class. I want to pretty much overlap these classes. Do you feel that they are difficult or time consuming to dbl up together. Please tell me there are no CLC with these 2 classes .

HLT 317..Yep a group project....pretty basic...most of the other students in that class were NOT nurses.....many were clueless when it came to APA......1 part of the class is you have to critique another students paper.....and u post it on the forum for all to see...Which in my opinion is the wrong thing to do..especially when u have students that have no clue on what APA is! The student that critiqued my paper, said to get rid of the headings....it looked too book like....well, one does need headings in APA......I was also amazed on how many students did not read the instructions when it came to the assignments.....which was the case for the paper I had to critique...It was obvious that he didn't read the instructions or the rubric, and it was badly written, and lucky me got to critique it. I asked the prof what I should do--sort of hoping she would let him fix it....nope....so I spent like 3 hours on it.....being as polite as possible.....I gave him many APA references..even found references for him to use for his paper...then to have the prof say maybe I shouldn't have done that in an open forum.....excuse me..I asked you,lol And best of all, its not worth any points,lol But a very easy class...

AMP 450 was very straight forward, no issues....I did get my lowest grade of the whole program in the class..85%..on a very easy assignment....somehow I managed to leave out 3 fairly important items.....lol Still ended the class with a 98%.....

One does not have to take those 2 classes.....the Advisers just put them there, but I recommend them!!

Specializes in Case Management.
HLT 317..Yep a group project....pretty basic...most of the other students in that class were NOT nurses.....many were clueless when it came to APA......1 part of the class is you have to critique another students paper.....and u post it on the forum for all to see...Which in my opinion is the wrong thing to do..especially when u have students that have no clue on what APA is! The student that critiqued my paper, said to get rid of the headings....it looked too book like....well, one does need headings in APA......I was also amazed on how many students did not read the instructions when it came to the assignments.....which was the case for the paper I had to critique...It was obvious that he didn't read the instructions or the rubric, and it was badly written, and lucky me got to critique it. I asked the prof what I should do--sort of hoping she would let him fix it....nope....so I spent like 3 hours on it.....being as polite as possible.....I gave him many APA references..even found references for him to use for his paper...then to have the prof say maybe I shouldn't have done that in an open forum.....excuse me..I asked you,lol And best of all, its not worth any points,lol But a very easy class...

AMP 450 was very straight forward, no issues....I did get my lowest grade of the whole program in the class..85%..on a very easy assignment....somehow I managed to leave out 3 fairly important items.....lol Still ended the class with a 98%.....

One does not have to take those 2 classes.....the Advisers just put them there, but I recommend them!!

Awesome I will take those 2 classes. I have several electives to take to fulfill my 30 units at GCU, just trying to push through. I will take 308 Risk and hope it is a great class. Been pushing Capstone back trying to mentally prepare.

Awesome I will take those 2 classes. I have several electives to take to fulfill my 30 units at GCU, just trying to push through. I will take 308 Risk and hope it is a great class. Been pushing Capstone back trying to mentally prepare.

I am finishing up my last week of AMP450, thanks to Flames. It was straightforward and pretty easy but I had a really good instructor too. She was not a hard grader but she was involved in a good way.

I am finishing up my last week of AMP450, thanks to Flames. It was straightforward and pretty easy but I had a really good instructor too. She was not a hard grader but she was involved in a good way.

It is Flames 9..after the great Lanny Mcdonald,lol Glad it worked out for ya!! Maybe u had the same prof.... I found the Profs that were active in the DQs, were to your benefit..easier to respond to.

Is this ur last class of the program?

Specializes in UR/CM, Managed Care.
It is Flames 9..after the great Lanny Mcdonald,lol

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh mystery solved! Player #9 on the Calgary Flames! I always thought it was some reference to maybe you had been a firefighter in another life!

Hello all....! I'm nearly done, i've only got 12 more units. Some classes are harder then others with more time commitments.... My biggest beef so far are of course the CLC group projects as well as teachers making up their own rules, which has been frustrating. I'm doing all of this coursework with 10 month old, 3 year old and 4 year old boys, as well as a comprehensive, online ICU orientation which is equivalent to doubling up classes due to time commitments... oh well what doesn't break you makes you stronger in the end.

I was wondering if any of you can PM me recommended instructors for Public Health, Research & Capstone. Ex... who to take and/or who not to take.

Yes, thanks Tokmom, I know the recommended instructors. At this point, I just want to be done and will settle for an ok instructor. I just don't want one that I "should avoid at all costs". :nailbiting:

Would anyone be willing to message me this list possibly?! I am still a ways away, but would like it anyway! I am starting Intro to Research on Monday and nervous as I've heard it is a horrible class! Any particular instructors to avoid for this class?!

Also, how possible is it to overlap ethics and spirituality for two weeks?!! Would I be way overworking myself? Or, if possible, just overlapping one week? We plan on going home for over two weeks for the holidays and I do NOT want to have to do homework while I am there. I only get to see my family for 8 days out of the 2 weeks and I want to enjoy my time with them...as it only happens maybe once a year.

Specializes in UR/CM, Managed Care.
Also, how possible is it to overlap ethics and spirituality for two weeks?!! Would I be way overworking myself? Or, if possible, just overlapping one week?

They've changed the Spirituality class so I can't comment on the first 2 weeks of that anymore (some here have taken it recently and could comment), but I think Ethics is the same. If it is, the last 2 weekends' assignments are both CLC's (part 1 due wk 4, part 2 due wk 5). If that's still the case, and if you don't mind letting go of "control"... I might suggest you just pick a part of the CLC, do your part right away, and submit it to the team/forum early. Let some other person be the team leader that puts it all together on the weekends. You could do the disappearing act that 99.9999% of my team members pulled. It comes in handy when you need it, and it sounds like you do. The one, maybe 2 times that I was not team leader, it was Heaven to just do my piece, submit it, and say "bye bye".

Can anyone chime in on the first 2 weeks of Spirituality these days?

Specializes in school nursing; pediatrics.

First week of Spirituality is not difficult but the paper is a pain. It is about personal worldview and you must answer 7 questions with regards to formulating a worldview. The questions are abstract. For example, how do we know what is true? Or, what is prime reality? You must answer these questions with regards to Christian beliefs, postmodernism beliefs, and your own personal beliefs. These concepts were new to me and if you are not a religious person or familiar with the Bible, you have to spend a lot of time googling and the paper winds up taking a fair amount of time. The kicker is that it is only worth 20 points, which is crazy because it is not a simple little assignment!

Second week is only tough because there are 3 assignments due on Sunday - a paper regarding a case study (about the subjects' beliefs), a personhood chart (you can mostly complete with info pulled from textbook), and a paper about the components of a healing environment.

I am just finishing up week 3, which only has 1 paper in which you choose a religion to compare to Christianity - again the worldview questions.

I found the first week of class to be tough because I am not religious and took me a while to give in to "playing the game" and make religious posts. Now, I tend to mostly comment on the professor's posts (which are usually short additional readings) because I can't bear to comment on classmate's posts. These posts seem to be worse than the posts people typically make!

Hope this info helps. Because of those 3 assignments due the end of week 2, it may be difficult to double up. Good luck in your decision!

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