GCU ABSN

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Hi, I just wanted to know if anyone else is interested in going to GCU's ABSN program? Or if anyone is currently in this program, how is it going? I'm planning on attending Jan 2022! Thanks!

On 11/17/2022 at 5:51 PM, Angela Codd said:

@ChemistryRNHey there! I have some questions about the program, I was told its Mon-Fir 8am-4pm, when are the clinical and do you get any vacation or holiday breaks during the program? I live in East Mesa, and will be traveling an hour to Sun City, I have an anticipated start date of Sept 2023, however I am hoping with the help of study.com I can get in for May 2023!

M-F 8-4 that sounds great. Gives me time to work nights. I believe the holiday break schedule is similar to traditional students. So I'm expecting we'd get the normal holidays such as thanksgiving, xmas, and Easter breaks. 

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Anyone here in the January cohort in Sun City?

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On 11/17/2022 at 5:51 PM, Angela Codd said:

@ChemistryRNHey there! I have some questions about the program, I was told its Mon-Fir 8am-4pm, when are the clinical and do you get any vacation or holiday breaks during the program? I live in East Mesa, and will be traveling an hour to Sun City, I have an anticipated start date of Sept 2023, however I am hoping with the help of study.com I can get in for May 2023!

Hi! So your schedule is not exactly cut and clean Mon-Fri 8-4. Those are the most common times for things to be scheduled, but it does not exactly mean that you will be on campus all week, 8 hours a day. They will give you your schedule a couple weeks or even days before the semester starts and each cohort has a slightly different schedule. For example during my first semester I had both labs on Thursday so I was on campus every Thursday from 8-4 (one lab ran from 8-12, the other from 1-4). Sim labs and exams would be sprinkled in throughout the week, but they didn't happen every week if that makes sense. For example we would have the first round of exams around week 3 or 4 and it mightve been one on Monday at 9am, another on Wednesday at 8am. Sim lab could be on a Friday one week and on a Monday a different week. You only have a certain number of sim labs for each class, so these do not happen every week. Most classes have between 2-4 sim labs. Clinicals start at a different time and are on different days for everyone as well. First semester you'll do 8hr rotations at a nursing home or rehab facility or something similar for 4 days out of the semester. Next semester you'll do 12hr rotations at various hospitals for 6 days of medsurg, 2 days for psych, etc. It'll make more sense when you get your schedule because everything will be listed on there. Having a job is possible during this program, but hopefully your manager/boss will be flexible with you because its almost impossible to keep a really strict schedule since you won't have the same school commitments every week. We get the same semester breaks that GCU main campus gets. We got a week off for Spring break during Spring semester, 2 weeks off in between Spring and Summer, about 3 weeks off between Summer and fall, and about 2 weeks off between fall and Spring. This info is on the GCU academic calendar so you can Google that to see more specific dates! Hope that made sense and helped!

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On 11/19/2022 at 7:36 PM, Mark Serdenia said:

M-F 8-4 that sounds great. Gives me time to work nights. I believe the holiday break schedule is similar to traditional students. So I'm expecting we'd get the normal holidays such as thanksgiving, xmas, and Easter breaks. 

Yes you will get regular holiday breaks and follow a really similar break schedule to the main campus students. Hopefully your job will be flexible with you regarding schedules because you might get a night simulation lab or skills lab. They just introduced those this semester. Morning sim lab runs from 630am to 1pm, night sim labs run from 230pm to 9pm. Skills labs usually were 8-12 or 1-4 but they have started introducing some that last until 5pm. Clinicals are almost always 630am to 630pm, but during Summer you might get nights which is 630pm to am. During your last semester if you apply for transition to practice you have the option of choosing day or night.

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On 5/5/2021 at 8:17 AM, 21_futurenurse said:


Is it like a random building?? I didn’t even consider that we wouldn’t be on the main campus. ? (Even though it says it explicitly on the website.. OOPS ?)

Okay... I was wondering the same thing because I was looking at a program in Nevada! They shared some info there and I looked at the CA BRN. It pretty much is up to California if they want to allow us. We definitely will have to apply to California through endorsement. Which means, we have to take the NCLEX in Arizona and be licensed in Arizona as an RN. THEN apply through endorsement for California. CA BRN evaluates our transcripts and license to see if GCU’s program meets the program requirements for CA. If they do, we get approved. If they don’t, we can look at being licensed by examination. Such a confusing process!

One person in the other forum emailed the CA BRN and they said the best bet would be to talk to people who have done the process and see where the deficiencies were. Considering this a new program, we don’t really have that option. ? Someone also shared that California programs have to have 800 clinical hours. I didn’t see that anywhere but if it’s true GCU only has 408 hours for the ABSN. I’m going to try to look for CA ABSN clinical hours and compare ? 

Thank you!! I’m going to look for the app because it’s so nice that it’s on our phones and we can literally study while waiting in line to pay ahah 

Wait I see you mentioned the Nevada program. Are you referring to GCU? We have to take the NCLEX in Arizona? 

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Christine Pham said:

If anyone is missing their Chemistry, anatomy, pathophysiology, or lifespan development prerequisite for the GCU ABSN program, Rio Salado is a community college in Arizona that offers those courses online! I took 2 of my prereq courses there and it was a lot cheaper than taking them through GCU.

These are the courses at Rio Salado that transfer to GCU: 

Chemistry and lab CHM130/CHM130L

Anatomy BIO202

Pathophysiology HCR240

Lifespan development PSY240

I'm not sure about Microbiology!

Thanks for this tip.

Does GCU require organic chemistry too I thought?  or just chem 100/130 with Lab.

I will need the Chemistry classes and Pathophys.  Are the online science classes really hard online? How do they test you, proctored online exams?

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Specializes in Psych and RN student.

Hi. I am in Orange County, Ca. How many days a week are you required to be in Henderson, NV for campus and clinical? I am trying to determine if it is possible/practical to take this program. Thank you.

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How many days a week are you in class/clinicals?

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Specializes in Nursing.

Anyone relocating to AZ campus for fall 2023? Debating between finding an apartment and roommates or just commuting... from what I've read, we will only have to be in person a couple days a week... 

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I created a GCU ABSN fall or Spring group if anyone wants to join

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