Does all Grad schools require you to have a 3.0 GPA

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Does all Grad schools require you to have an undergrad GPA of 3.0 in order to be accepted and if you don't can you never attain your graduate degree?

Specializes in Med-Surg, Trauma, Ortho, Neuro, Cardiac.
Tweety...are you doing university of phoenix? One of my daughters nurses is getting her masters from them and says lots of writing. I am thinking of using them myself.........

Currently I go to Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences. http://onlinenursing.fhchs.edu/

Much cheaper than UoP and NLN accredited.

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Is it all online or do you attend actual classes on a campus? I'm gonna check it out! Thanks ;)

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Trauma, Ortho, Neuro, Cardiac.
Is it all online or do you attend actual classes on a campus? I'm gonna check it out! Thanks ;)

100% online. PM me with any questions so we don't highjack the thread any further. :lol2:

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Most require letters of recommendation, so maybe a good recommendation from a nursing instructor or someone who works with them clinically will get them in the door. GPA isn't the only consideration. The school I'm most intrigued by requires a 3.0 though. Fortunately I have a 4.0, with five more classes to go and 12 under my belt, so I'm sitting pretty and stand a good chance of getting the 3.0.

Great, then I should be good! I have awesome recommendation letters from instructors due to applying for student nurse associate jobs we need them.....:idea:

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1 word for all you paper writing souls out there...

endnote

pricey (the student price is about 100 bucks) but best money I EVER spent

It downloaded the refs, inserted them where I told it told it to, wrote the bib and formatted the APA perfectly everytime so I didnt have to. Nothing else (and I tried about 10 others) worked as well!

Soooo...this program ACTUALLY works?? Have tried a couple and they caused me nothing but more problems....spent more time playing with the stupid 'I'm here to make your life easier program' than I would have if I had just done it myself to begin with. I'm actually pretty good at APA....but if this program works...I will definately buy it....every minute saved is one more minute that I can sleep:lol2:

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Specializes in ICU, ER, HH, NICU, now FNP.

Yes this one actually works - it's actually the oldest one out there, it is not web based, and it does thousands of other formats besides APA - very important if you ever plan on doing any writing for publication.

I could log into the library databases, do my searches, download the article's associated bib info right into endnote and then click on a button in word to select the one I wanted and drop it into place. It put the item in the bib for me and then if I changed my mind took it back out. It formatted it perfectly, alphabetized it and when I was done writing my paper, my bib was finished - no fixing up to do, no worrying about whether I had things in the apper that weren't in the bib and vice versa, even when I had nearly 60 refs - although there was one library database that I occasionally had to make minor corrections for.

You CAN link the PDF's of the articles you save to your hard drive to the endnote reference so that you have them all catalogued and easy to find too. In adddition, the stuff it downloads from the library database includes the abstract, and your entire endnote file on your drive is then keyword searchable, making it very easy to retrieve that article you found a year ago but don't know what you did with and no longer have access to!

Invaluable!

ETA: Oh and they have free web based training and many university libraries will train you on how to use it too.

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Hey! Thanks for the advice concerning "endnote"software...I just found a fully functional 30 day trial of it if anyone wants to try it out:

http://www.endnote.com/endemoproc.asp

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Specializes in ICU, ER, HH, NICU, now FNP.

There are a few key things to setting it up -

you have to select APA as your output style,

Some databases are not as "compatible" (the ones who sell their own crummy bibwriter products - go figure) but there are workarounds for those few.

To double space your bib - use the format bib button on the endnote toolbar which it installs in MS Word.

To get an org name or other entity name to appear as an author without the program abbreviating it to initials, just put a comma at the end of the name in Endnote (That took me FOREVER to figure out!)

The page numbers field in APA format uses the Suffix field instead - just type p. 23-46. in the suffix field and it will put it in the right place when you need page numbers.

Those were the major things

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