Comments/suggestions? 4540 (community nursing) + 4580 (leadership) -- doable?

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I am planning to register courses for next session. If I would like to double up 4540 (community nursing) and 4580 (leadership), is that doable? What is the workload for each of them? What is the test style for each: DB, quiz, or paper? Any suggestions and comments are truly appreciated.

Specializes in Med/Surg, Neuro, ICU, travel RN, Psych.

I'm doubling up on these as well. I'm just hoping my saving grace is I work night shift, and have tons of down time (psych) so have plenty of time to work on school work.

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Does anyone have access to the Community Nursing class yet? It is not listed when I log into blackboard. I'm hoping they have worked the glitches out by now. Did anyone take a nursing class the first session on blackboard and what problems were encountered? I took Music during the summer and the glitches/problems were very frustrating. Thank goodness the instructor worked with the students. Anyone take a combined class? I'm wondering if doubling up classes is doable. I was thinking about taking a nursing class and an elective. Thanks.

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Does anyone have access to the Community Nursing class yet? It is not listed when I log into blackboard. I'm hoping they have worked the glitches out by now. Did anyone take a nursing class the first session on blackboard and what problems were encountered? I took Music during the summer and the glitches/problems were very frustrating. Thank goodness the instructor worked with the students. Anyone take a combined class? I'm wondering if doubling up classes is doable. I was thinking about taking a nursing class and an elective. Thanks.

I took the 4510 class during the first session and it did have some glitches. The TA was super and I didn't have too many problems. They seem to be opening up classes slowly today-hopefully community will open soon! Good luck!

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Neuro, ICU, travel RN, Psych.

So those of you who are taking these two classes together, how are you feeling about it? I'm trying not to freak out, but I'm worrying I made a mistake taking these together, at least right now. I have a 7 week old son in addition to my 3 year old daughter. This is my last week on maternity leave, then I go back to working night shift 2 nights a week. These classes are intense, I just hope I can keep up.

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So those of you who are taking these two classes together, how are you feeling about it? I'm trying not to freak out, but I'm worrying I made a mistake taking these together, at least right now. I have a 7 week old son in addition to my 3 year old daughter. This is my last week on maternity leave, then I go back to working night shift 2 nights a week. These classes are intense, I just hope I can keep up.

Maybe you will get a lot of really quiet nights at work.. I haven't been brave enough to do 2 classes, but I think I might try it in the spring term and get some of my gen ed courses done ( Nutrition and either Psych or the Freshman Comp)

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seems like a lot of work! I start a full-time job next week so I am just preparing myself for no life for the next 4 weeks. I took 30 credit hours in summer so I could graduate in december this is doable just no fun:(

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Neuro, ICU, travel RN, Psych.
Maybe you will get a lot of really quiet nights at work.. I haven't been brave enough to do 2 classes, but I think I might try it in the spring term and get some of my gen ed courses done ( Nutrition and either Psych or the Freshman Comp)

Yeah, that was what I hoped when I took both. I did 2 non nursing courses over the summer, and it was a lot of work. But it was worse since I was 8/9 months pregnant. I work psych, so from like midnight until 5 am I have almost nothing to do. I can usually have all my work done by midnight so I "should" have plenty of time to do school work. We do have an occasional bad night if we get a lot of admissions or we have a patient freaking out, but even then it's not bad. At least not for me, since I did years of floor nursing, I'm pretty quick at getting the work done.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Neuro, ICU, travel RN, Psych.
seems like a lot of work! I start a full-time job next week so I am just preparing myself for no life for the next 4 weeks. I took 30 credit hours in summer so I could graduate in december this is doable just no fun:(

Good luck!!! It'd doable for me, I just feel bad because I can't give my 2 year old as much attention as I should be, and she's already lost some from the baby being born.

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I am taking Community Health and Leadership in nursing. Leadership in nursing is a confusing class and the instructions are as clear as mud but doing well grade wise even though the class and book is a snoozer! I enjoy the community health class but my TA sucks. I put way more hours and effort in to that class and she gives me crap grades.

I have never done any evals to this point, just happy to do my classes and move on. I am doing evals this time!

Good luck to anyone who has to suffer with a TA like mine, 3 Weeks into the class and I am barely passing and all I have ever gotten in any of these nursing classes is an A.

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