Grand Canyon University RN to BSN Reviews

Nursing Students School Programs Nursing Q/A

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.

I cannot even begin to express my frustrations with CLCs and people's crazy amounts of plagerized posts. Also, how is it people still don't know how to so APA citations for their posts?! I called out a group member who gave me almost completely copy and pasted stuff for an assignment. Almost completely- she changed 'the nurse' to 'I'..... Seriously?! Almost done though. Third to last course.

Specializes in UR/CM, Managed Care.
This is my first class with GCU, so it's certainly been a learning experience on the quality of work some people think it is okay to submit.

This will rear its ugly head until your very last class and very last DQ. The sooner you let go of expecting the same quality of work from others that you turn in, the happier you will be.

When you take the lead, how early do you make people turn in their stuff?

These assignments are posted on day #1, so there's no excuse not to be working on it a little here & there in the 1-4 weeks beforehand. I always shot for Tues/Wed before it's due. That left PLENTY of time to read through it, find the egregiosity (just made that up cause it's an awesome word), and send out (and post in color forum) requests to please cite”, please submit your references (in APA format)”, please create speaker notes for your slides”, please take at least 200 words OFF your very visually disturbing slide”, please see the CLC agreement, you did the wrong part”, and then write to the Prof that Suzzie hasn't responded for 3 weeks even though she's regularly posting DQs? … etc. If due by Tues/Wed, that gives you 5-ish days to fret over not getting any replies back to the above requests (remember, they're at the zoo with no internet access, and strangely texts don't come through either?), and finally decide if you're going to do/re-do Suzzie's part or not.

And how much of it do you edit? I feel like maybe I shouldn't change their work that much, because it's theirs (or Dorthea Orem's/Florence Nightengale's/etc.).

This is the million dollar question. In my experience, it was not theirs. It WAS Dorothea's and Florence's (with no citation)! Or Wikipedia's, or just some random Google'd thing from a blog somewhere, or {{shudder}} StudyMode…. As it is a team project, there are no names on the individual slides so what you submit goes down as the group's agreed-upon final project. This is where the head-banging comes in. If you leave it, and if the Prof is paying attention (you know they've read 842,697 PowerPoints on Dorothea & Flo by now and can recognize familiar statements in their sleep), you run the risk of the grade reflecting plagiarism. Just because PPt's don't go through TII doesn't mean people should cast their academic integrity to the wind (my opinion, of course). Bottom line: You either turn it in as is and white-knuckle it until the grade comes out (hopefully all your individual papers were A's), or you just redo all the crap and turn in an awesome project (so you all get A's!). Trust me, the team is hoping you choose option B.

but I'm embarrassed to have my name attached to it.

See my first response above. :roflmao:

Good advice by Prism! One also has to consider the prof, and how she marks! But that too can mean little as you can be a great writer, and get marked accordingly, so you figure she is an easy marker, but in reality, your getting the high marks because of your writing. But one generally has a feel of the prof! You want to be nice and say, have ur work in by Thursday before it is due...BUT pretty much be assured there will be at least 1, that won't be rdy then.....So make it due the Tuesday before...that way, it will be rdy by Thursday,lol I was fortunate that most others wrote well enough...but many didnt cite enough! I think many just don't want too cite to much, and if ur not citing, well it is then plagiarism! Near the end I started including APA documents, to ensure people knew what APA was..rules...the GCU "how to do a " powerpoint Laid it all out there--in a very friendly manner.....Good times

Specializes in Case Management.

I am starting my Capstone class in November and am feeling the overwhelming blahs, I really don't know what to write on that hasn't been done a zillion times. I am a case manager. Any suggestions, ideas?

Specializes in UR/CM, Managed Care.

Hi mommao, way to plan ahead! (I didn't, despite tokmom's warnings...)

There are a couple of us CMs on here, and, well, there isn't much exciting I could come up with either because our main job these days is reducing readmits through efficient DCP ("transitional care" being the buzz phrase these days). I wouldn't worry about it having been done a zillion times before; actually, that just means there's more resources out there for you to pick from. Choosing something obscure may inhibit your ability to find 15 good articles; especially those that require actual prior research.

I work on the insurance side, so my "spin" on DCP was involving the payer side (UR RN, me) much more heavily than is the current model. Hospitals tend to do all their own DCP and then call me to tell me what is planned and to get auth. If I were involved from the beginning, I could make their lives much easier by offering resources I know of (and are contracted for sure), and bypass all the stuff the pt doesn't have benefits for to begin with, etc. Plus I added a 30-day post-DC call program between the pt & myself to make sure all went as planned, and if not, intervene early.

Other CMs I know chose a specific disease process to focus on to prevent readmits, like a CHF or DM disease management model with algorithms, and whether they actually work or not.

Choosing something you're painfully familiar with, although booooring LOL, definitely makes the research & writing processes easier. But if you can figure out something new, exciting and inventive, yay!

Maybe try cruising the CMSA website or some CM journals to see if there are some up & coming new strategies? The library has subscriptions to all those journals, the awesome librarians can tell you how to find them :) Good luck, you're almost there!!!

Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
OMG, the plagarism. Like really, I see your DQs, I know you don't write like that. Dude didn't put in one single citation, and I'm pretty sure he didn't put in an original thought either. He's also been MIA since he turned in his plagiarized portion four days ago. This is my first class with GCU, so it's certainly been a learning experience on the quality of work some people think it is okay to submit.

When you take the lead, how early do you make people turn in their stuff? And how much of it do you edit? I feel like maybe I shouldn't change their work that much, because it's theirs (or Dorthea Orem's/Florence Nightengale's/etc.), but I'm embarrassed to have my name attached to it.

I gave people until Friday and edited as needed. Pandora and I spent hours cleaning up APA errors.

Specializes in Case Management.
Hi mommao, way to plan ahead! (I didn't, despite tokmom's warnings...)

There are a couple of us CMs on here, and, well, there isn't much exciting I could come up with either because our main job these days is reducing readmits through efficient DCP ("transitional care" being the buzz phrase these days). I wouldn't worry about it having been done a zillion times before; actually, that just means there's more resources out there for you to pick from. Choosing something obscure may inhibit your ability to find 15 good articles; especially those that require actual prior research.

I work on the insurance side, so my "spin" on DCP was involving the payer side (UR RN, me) much more heavily than is the current model. Hospitals tend to do all their own DCP and then call me to tell me what is planned and to get auth. If I were involved from the beginning, I could make their lives much easier by offering resources I know of (and are contracted for sure), and bypass all the stuff the pt doesn't have benefits for to begin with, etc. Plus I added a 30-day post-DC call program between the pt & myself to make sure all went as planned, and if not, intervene early.

Other CMs I know chose a specific disease process to focus on to prevent readmits, like a CHF or DM disease management model with algorithms, and whether they actually work or not.

Choosing something you're painfully familiar with, although booooring LOL, definitely makes the research & writing processes easier. But if you can figure out something new, exciting and inventive, yay!

Maybe try cruising the CMSA website or some CM journals to see if there are some up & coming new strategies? The library has subscriptions to all those journals, the awesome librarians can tell you how to find them :) Good luck, you're almost there!!!

Thanks so much, CHF readmission here I come. I WI start looking for 15 articles, seems like a lot. I'm not sure how to write the Capstone paper, I assume that is what the class is about. . Ugh I so dread this class, then I'll have 2 more electives and will be done!

Thanks so much, CHF readmission here I come. I WI start looking for 15 articles, seems like a lot. I'm not sure how to write the Capstone paper, I assume that is what the class is about. . Ugh I so dread this class, then I'll have 2 more electives and will be done!

It is a lot of work, but it broken down week by week. And if u find a subject you enjoy, it really is not that bad! if u goto Week 5, and under the Resource tab (i think, thats where) there is an example of a completed paper, so you get a rough idea.

If you do not use Refworks now..I highly recommend you use it! It is free from the GCU library! I only used it to organize my articles. In many places, such as the GCU library, when you find an article...you can EXPORT it....so u export it to Refworks..makes it easy to keep track of the articles! I think it can also make citations, but I just continued to use PERRLA

if those 2 classes are "anything" classes..i highly recommend AMP 450 and HLT 317.

Specializes in Case Management.
It is a lot of work, but it broken down week by week. And if u find a subject you enjoy, it really is not that bad! if u goto Week 5, and under the Resource tab (i think, thats where) there is an example of a completed paper, so you get a rough idea.

If you do not use Refworks now..I highly recommend you use it! It is free from the GCU library! I only used it to organize my articles. In many places, such as the GCU library, when you find an article...you can EXPORT it....so u export it to Refworks..makes it easy to keep track of the articles! I think it can also make citations, but I just continued to use PERRLA

if those 2 classes are "anything" classes..i highly recommend AMP 450 and HLT 317.

I am in 450, then 308 Risk. I am torn in that I have completed enough classes and general Ed that I can take 2 Masters Classes and I am seriously considering it, but then it extends my torment 3 weeks for each class. Oh the journey. If I stay just within BSN I will take 317 and I guess 324, then done.

Question on research need some help!

Does anyone still recall in 433 Research on the first assignment where you have to use the six articles for your topic you would like to research.... what are you writing about on that paper it is not clear to me. Are we writing just about the problem or are we writing about each abstract article?

Sorry I know it's Saturday so last minute but I worked all week!

Your knowledge is appreciated!

xx

OM gosh seriously!!! Lord Help Me!

Specializes in Women Services-L/D.
Question on research need some help!

Does anyone still recall in 433 Research on the first assignment where you have to use the six articles for your topic you would like to research.... what are you writing about on that paper it is not clear to me. Are we writing just about the problem or are we writing about each abstract article?

Sorry I know it's Saturday so last minute but I worked all week!

Your knowledge is appreciated!

xx

The key is in the rubric - Description of the practice problem, then presentation of the six articles with the abstracts.

+ Add a Comment