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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 Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.

I remember submitting my first paper. I thought I was going to go into SVT, I was so nervous!

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Share this with her also... I lived alone in a tiny apartment, worked FT and went to school FT. No time for friends, I spent my off-work time sleeping, doing homework and eating PB&J, mac&cheese and delivery food. Missed countless waterskiing trips to the lake, tubing trips down the river, weekend camping trips, and on and on. BUT - it was only 2 years, and when I was done, I was working in ICU, 3d/wk, had 4d/wk off, could build my own schedule, had tons of time for family and activities, aaaaand, I was making double what my friends were making. Good investment and worth the sacrifice? Um, YEAH!

ADN school was the single smartest decision I ever made in my entire life. The second smartest was to resist temptation, give it the respect it deserved, invest in it completely, and do it the right way (ain't no "I was absent that day in school" during a code).

Haven't looked back since. Decades later, my career has served me well, I have made a difference in my life and the lives of countless patients, and I don't even know where all those friends are now...

I have tried telling her that the "friends" she has now will not be around in a few years. I think reading your take on it all really helped her "get it". She was ya home tonight studying on a Saturday night so that's a good sign she is focused. Thanks so much for your words of wisdom!

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
It's so easy to highlight passages nowadays, in Word, if highlighting stuff is really necessary. I have been printing out stuff that I'll want to actually study in the future, like the adult physical assessment articles or whatnot.

Finishing Community/Public right now. Writing up my 1,500 word assessment of the experience. So glad to get this class out of the way! Really lucky that I got the day off, last Sunday, when the CLC powerpoint was due - I took one look at what we had, and spent two hours revising it, proofreading, spelling/grammar etc etc oh my goodness. Someone, don't know which, had left double spaces between many words, no spaces between others . . . . Wow was that tedious to fix! Ended up with a 95% on the project, which brought my average down from a 99.83% to a 97.8% for the end of wk 4, grr. Anyway, the class isn't nearly as difficult as it looks like from the syllabus.

Anyone headed in to that class, feel free to pm me or ask questions here. I'm taking a two week break before starting Stats.

I'm so glad I was ahead of the community health change. What was a CLC for us, is a solo project for you guys. I can't even imagine. Community seems like it's turned in the class from hell and has booted stats out of the number one spot!

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
"This Week's Realization Moment", brought to you by PrismRN:

I needed some good stuff about Florence Nightingale to reference her Environmental Theory in my current paper, so I went back to my trusty PowerPoint from class 1, Professional Dynamics. I got what I needed and swiped my pre-formatted reference, but took a minute to read the ppt from start to finish. Wow. Just when I was feeling a smidge down, thinking "all I do is sit here and crank out paper after paper, I'm like a machine, the same thing over and over", it hit me. I've come a loooooooooong way since then. At the time, I'm sure I thought I was "all that" (do people say that anymore? lol), but reading my original works from class 1 and comparing to what I've written so far in this paper, in class 8, the difference is more than just noticable. Not only the level of writing and writing style, but the depth of information I can now extract, comprehend and recast into an academic paper.

Realization: Education happens, whether you notice it or not! GCU BSN Program - it's a good thing.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming (or in my case, this paper that I hated 10 minutes ago)

Prism has entered into the dark side of academia :dncgbby::anpom::hpygrp:

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
"This Week's Realization Moment", brought to you by PrismRN:

I needed some good stuff about Florence Nightingale to reference her Environmental Theory in my current paper, so I went back to my trusty PowerPoint from class 1, Professional Dynamics. I got what I needed and swiped my pre-formatted reference, but took a minute to read the ppt from start to finish. Wow. Just when I was feeling a smidge down, thinking "all I do is sit here and crank out paper after paper, I'm like a machine, the same thing over and over", it hit me. I've come a loooooooooong way since then. At the time, I'm sure I thought I was "all that" (do people say that anymore? lol), but reading my original works from class 1 and comparing to what I've written so far in this paper, in class 8, the difference is more than just noticable. Not only the level of writing and writing style, but the depth of information I can now extract, comprehend and recast into an academic paper.

Realization: Education happens, whether you notice it or not! GCU BSN Program - it's a good thing.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming (or in my case, this paper that I hated 10 minutes ago)

Amazing, isn't it? I had an epiphany with my writing skills (which I know doesn't show here, LOL) when I read a couple of paragraphs that I *thought* someone else wrote. Turns out the two paragraphs that was on a random word doc were mine.

I found a copy of my first paper that I wrote and the ppt and was amazed how far I had come from class one to the capstone.

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

Ok...I'm sorta bored tonight so I started thinking. I thought it would be interesting to learn fun things about each other. Nothing to give us away. But we always talk school..

What made you decide on gcu:

Where area of nursing do you work? Will that change after your BSN?

Favorite hobby when you had time for one, lol

Favorite color.

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
Ok...I'm sorta bored tonight so I started thinking. I thought it would be interesting to learn fun things about each other. Nothing to give us away. But we always talk school..

What made you decide on gcu:

Where area of nursing do you work? Will that change after your BSN?

Favorite hobby when you had time for one, lol

Favorite color.

I decided on gcu after listening to a co worker. I also went to an educational faire at work. They were the only ones to not harass me, lol.

I'm a med/surg nurse and probably always will be. I would like to do something with my BSN. Not sure what.

Hobbies are gardening in the summer and I love to knit socks and felted bags :). I also like too bake.

I also love antiques and shopping for them.

Favorite color are cool tones for me such as purples and blues. I love to knit with jewel tones though. :)

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Ok...I'm sorta bored tonight so I started thinking. I thought it would be interesting to learn fun things about each other. Nothing to give us away. But we always talk school..

What made you decide on gcu:

Where area of nursing do you work? Will that change after your BSN?

Favorite hobby when you had time for one, lol

Favorite color.

GCU was part of a continuing ed fair at my community college. At first I was under the impression the cost was something like $30,000 so I was like no way am I going there. But they were handing out these pretty purple pens so I stopped at the booth because I wanted a pen.LOL Then I learned most of my classes would transfer and cut the cost. The fact that I can be DONE in 15 months was another reason.

I currently work on a Surgical/Trauma unit which I love. Perhaps someday I will look into Hospice as I feel that helping somebody comfortably pass is a real privilege. But for now, I am just a year into my nursing career and what I have learned is immeasurable. I know the nursing field is ever changing and nobody will ever know it all, so I continue to learn every single day and love it.

I used to be a "soccer mom" all year long and was the team manager for my sons travel team so that kept me busy. My youngest graduated high school the same year I graduated nursing school and I desperately miss those soccer games! Although this summer has been spent behind my computer I really enjoy working in the lawn outside and keeping the outside of our home "pretty". Look out next summer because I "should" no longer be a student behind a computer! I can't wait.

My favorite color is orange because it is bright and fun and reminds me of sunny days, a close second is purple...hence the purple GCU ink pen.

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Specializes in UR/CM, Managed Care.

EUREEEEEEKAAAAA!!!!!!

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Specializes in Psychiatric.
Ok...I'm sorta bored tonight so I started thinking. I thought it would be interesting to learn fun things about each other. Nothing to give us away. But we always talk school..

What made you decide on gcu:

Where area of nursing do you work? Will that change after your BSN?

Favorite hobby when you had time for one, lol

Favorite color.

Short classes that I take one at a time, no clinical aspect, and entirely online.

Psych. Nope, I want to go on for a psych NP degree at some point.

It's been a really really really long time :cry:, but I used to like to relax and read novels and watch movies (especially foreign movies) often, very very often.

Red, yellow, and green. Plus some shades of purple, pink and blue. I really have no favorite, I just like color. Funny thing is, as a teenager I only wore black.

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
GCU was part of a continuing ed fair at my community college. At first I was under the impression the cost was something like $30,000 so I was like no way am I going there. But they were handing out these pretty purple pens so I stopped at the booth because I wanted a pen.LOL Then I learned most of my classes would transfer and cut the cost. The fact that I can be DONE in 15 months was another reason.

I currently work on a Surgical/Trauma unit which I love. Perhaps someday I will look into Hospice as I feel that helping somebody comfortably pass is a real privilege. But for now, I am just a year into my nursing career and what I have learned is immeasurable. I know the nursing field is ever changing and nobody will ever know it all, so I continue to learn every single day and love it.

I used to be a "soccer mom" all year long and was the team manager for my sons travel team so that kept me busy. My youngest graduated high school the same year I graduated nursing school and I desperately miss those soccer games! Although this summer has been spent behind my computer I really enjoy working in the lawn outside and keeping the outside of our home "pretty". Look out next summer because I "should" no longer be a student behind a computer! I can't wait.

My favorite color is orange because it is bright and fun and reminds me of sunny days, a close second is purple...hence the purple GCU ink pen.

I like orange. It is a very happy color!

I think that is why I like to garden. So when somebody does drive down our dead end road, they can enjoy my flowers, lol.

Hospice has always been something I wanted to do, but a friend is currently in hospice and says it's really busy. She travels though.

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
Short classes that I take one at a time, no clinical aspect, and entirely online.

Psych. Nope, I want to go on for a psych NP degree at some point.

It's been a really really really long time :cry:, but I used to like to relax and read novels and watch movies (especially foreign movies) often, very very often.

Red, yellow, and green. Plus some shades of purple, pink and blue. I really have no favorite, I just like color. Funny thing is, as a teenager I only wore black.

My dtr was a black person for a long time, lol. She changed into rainbows of color thereafter.

Soon you will be able to watch your foreign films again and do some reading. I think even when busy we need to make time for ourselves.

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