Grand Canyon DNP

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Has anyone graduated from this program? I'm a student there and halfway through. I'm not sure I'm really getting what I expected out of it and considering transferring. Just wondering if anyone had finished it and how prepared you felt in general once you were finished. Thanks!

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Having been through an online FNP program and teaching in an online program I can tell you that every student feels ill-prepared. It's all new. Different from nursing duties. It's only natural. Do the best you can in the program you are in. Make the most of your clinicals and you'll be fine. I don't think changing schools will make a difference.

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Specializes in ED, ICU, MS/MT, PCU, CM, House Sup, Frontline mgr.

OP: I am researching graduate programs in nursing at this time. With that said, if you do not get enough feedback online (my guess is that some current students and former students may or may not have issues with this university until or unless they have trouble with his/her career pursuits later on and at that time it may be too embarrassing to admit that attending a particular university was a mistake), you may wish to go with your feelings and stop. In fact, I know of a nurse who stopped a few semesters into another program because of similar feelings.

Do more research by talking to PhD and DNP prepared RNs who are in the field/specialty you are pursuing and/or those that sit on peer review boards. They are excellent resources when performing research on graduate programs. The type of program you choose, I am told, really depends on what you want to do with your career.

Thus, it is highly possible the above poster is correct and you will feel the way you feel in any program. On the other hand, it is possible that you are correct and you are not being appropriately prepared. GL!

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

I was accepted to GCU's DNP and put it on hold due to a change in family structure (had a baby, wanted time off of school!), and the enrollment guy's complete lack of a response (not even a congrats, really?) when I told him I was postponing was extremely off-putting. No response at all, not even an acknowledgment. I thought that was a little weird, but I guess that's what you get with a for-profit, right? I was just dollar signs.

OP, how is it not meeting your expectations? Do you feel like you aren't learning anything?

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