Grand Canyon RN-BSN

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Is there any updated information? I have been in heavy contact with them and am looking at taking their RN-BSN program. I work with a GCU grad and she has nothing but positive things to say, but I want more opinions. ?

Any pro's and cons? Thankfully the only class I'm missing is stats and that is offered in the actual BSN program. I'm a bit nervous as my algebra skills are way old. If anyone took this class, do you have any advice?

Specializes in Cath Lab, Case Management.
I think JRich managed to get an A in both classes when she doubled up, and I had been planning on doing Trends & Leadership at the same time so I could get Capstone over the Christmas break. But, I'm thinking I might be slightly crazy to do that. As I learned in my last class, sometimes your mojo (and subsequent grade) can be heavily influenced by other people, and since it's a cr@pshoot who the instructors will be, who the other students will be, where they fall on the apathy meter, etc., I think I'm not going to do two at the same time. That will make me done at the end of March instead of the end of January, but it may be worth it. If I had double the stress I just endured in this last class, my husband would surely kick me to the curb! I'd be that gal sitting on the roadside with my cardboard sign: "Homeless BSN student, will cook/clean for wireless access"

OH MY!!! You crack me up!!!!! I thought about doubling up after research and my husband threatened the same thing...he's like April, May, June, July...just don't do THAT to us!!!

Specializes in Cath Lab, Case Management.
Just a hint...save that CLC and all the mumbo jumbo excluding the names. You can use it again. :)

Really now, tell me more, tell me more? Or did I forget and make myself more work?

Week 2 of Professional Dynamics has 6 reading assignments, 2 DQ's and a paper. Is this considered a typical week? Just curious what I have to look forward to!

Week 2 of Professional Dynamics has 6 reading assignments, 2 DQ's and a paper. Is this considered a typical week? Just curious what I have to look forward to!

typical is 2 DQs a week and a paper a week. The reading differs with each class and depending on the student. I cannot read everything they tell me so I go strait to where the info is that I need to complete the assignment and pick some info to cite. but that is just me.

Specializes in PD,Nxstage,hemo.
I didn't start until *I* was ready too, which was 4-5 weeks later than they wanted me too. I think some are very anxious to get on with the program. I wanted alllll those ducks in a row. :)

I agree! I wouldn't start until all or most of my ducks were in a row. Your admitted and The school or classes are going anywhere so don't feel pressured to start like right now?. For pecks sake they have new classes starting like every 2 weeks!

They suggested for me to start 2 weeks before I wanted to but I choose a later date.

My first class is September 15th. I've gotten a call every week (1hr call) to teach me how to navigate the school website, library etc....I wish you all the best on your GCU journey.

@pinkpetunia Keep us posted as will I ?

Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.

Yes, that is pretty much the routine. Some classes have two things due in a week, such as a paper and a group project. You can pretty much guarantee a paper or some project every week on top of the reading and the DQ. The capstone was one of the busier classes because it had 1-3 things due each week.

Specializes in HOSPICE.

Hey yall! Currently finishing week 4 of health assessment and so far has been pretty good! A little nervous for community and public health in a week and a half...ahh!

Yes, that is pretty much the routine. Some classes have two things due in a week, such as a paper and a group project. You can pretty much guarantee a paper or some project every week on top of the reading and the DQ. The capstone was one of the busier classes because it had 1-3 things due each week.

Yikes tokmom. I'm thinking I may need to take some vacation days off from work when I make it to capstone.

My EC is claiming to be my advisor.. for the entire time.

Shouldn't there be a second person?

Maybe they are changing things?

Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
Yikes tokmom. I'm thinking I may need to take some vacation days off from work when I make it to capstone.

You know, I took a couple days off in week two and one in week three. I think I would have been ok, but it was nice to be able to take some pressure off.

Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
My EC is claiming to be my advisor.. for the entire time.

Shouldn't there be a second person?

Maybe they are changing things?

I know my financial and academic advisor were the same. As long as I got prompt answers, I didn't care what they called themselves. ;)

Specializes in UR/CM, Managed Care.

Okay all you smarties out there...:bookworm:... I'm sending out an SOS

I'm looking for a program (preferrably free) that will make all this paper-writing easier when it comes to the misc zillions of articles I run across when I'm researching for a paper. Here's my current method (dont laugh!):

Find an article, print it (seriously, stop laughing), get out my yellow highlighter, spy the pieces I want to incorporate into my paper, highlight those, hand-write my little jotted notes in the margins, and keep all those articles in a stack on the table beside me as I'm composing. When I've used something (and properly cited it of course), I draw an X through that paragraph or sidebar note so I know I never have to look at it again. By the time I'm nearing the end of my paper, all my good highlighted stuff ought to be X'd out, right? This.is.a.ridiculous.use.of.my.time. I tried to move on from the 1980's paper-version and go electronic, but that's even more confusing to me because I end up with waaay too many tabs open (dangerous on this laptop), and plus you can only right-click-highlight one blurb at a time per website/article (and the second you click away that disappears anyway), and you can't make your own notes anywhere. Then I tried to copy/paste the article itself into a blank Word doc, where you can highlight in pretty colors, and insert your own text randomly in other color/font as my "notes to self" by using the "insert comment" feature (like the instructors use when commenting on our papers in the sidebar). This also seems like a lumbering task, moving the whole article into a new format just so I can mess with it. PLEASE SOMEONE give me a program that does this:

I find an article (web, GCU library, GoogleScholar, wherever). I send it somewhere (intact). I can manipulate the text on that document (highlight, etc), and maybe there's a sidebar where I can type notes-to-self and link it over to the highlighted part. Is this too much to ask? I tried the OneNote program that came on my computer, don't like it. I tried EverNote, not what I need.

Anybody? What do you do? How do you keep all your research articles (or snippets from the e-books) organized, and the parts within the article organized (cause you're only gonna use a sentence or two from each giant article), without killing 43 trees by printing them all out? My dining room table looks like a shred bin by Sunday night.

Ideas! Please! :vlin:

(p.s., yes I know I should have figured this out before my 8th class...) dash1.gif

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