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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.
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.

My girlfriend finished it a few weeks before I started. We started nursing school together and then she dropped out to restart later, so I figured why not. That and another school drove me nuts with all their calls and emails.

I've always had some type of cardiac in my nursing, but when I walked into the Cath Lab it was love at first sight. Unfortunately the back did not hold up :cry: :mad: :cry:. I now spend my days doing ER case management, which is a good fit, still some excitement but the body can do it!

Scrapbooking and photography. I actually went to a wedding once and the photographer's camera broke she left and they asked me to do the photos, it was fun but totally totally unprofessional. But at least they had some fun photos. =)

Green, then purple, and the last few years I am really enjoying different hues of tans and browns.

Oh and I spent 18-20 with all black clothes, well I did have a super cool red belt that wrapped around my (then) tiny waist. I think the only black I have in my closet now are my work pants, and a pair of black jeans, funny how kids go through that phase.

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Specializes in Cath Lab, Case Management.
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Specializes in Cath Lab, Case Management.

Okay fellow 'lopes.....what do you do or how do you get over wanting to quit.

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My girlfriend finished it a few weeks before I started. We started nursing school together and then she dropped out to restart later, so I figured why not. That and another school drove me nuts with all their calls and emails.

I've always had some type of cardiac in my nursing, but when I walked into the Cath Lab it was love at first sight. Unfortunately the back did not hold up :cry: :mad: :cry:. I now spend my days doing ER case management, which is a good fit, still some excitement but the body can do it!

Scrapbooking and photography. I actually went to a wedding once and the photographer's camera broke she left and they asked me to do the photos, it was fun but totally totally unprofessional. But at least they had some fun photos. =)

Green, then purple, and the last few years I am really enjoying different hues of tans and browns.

Oh and I spent 18-20 with all black clothes, well I did have a super cool red belt that wrapped around my (then) tiny waist. I think the only black I have in my closet now are my work pants, and a pair of black jeans, funny how kids go through that phase.

What in cath lab kills your back? The constant standing?

I have seriously thought about case management and urdp, which in our hospital is the same job. It seems overwhelming though. How do you learn everything you need to know and how do you cope with MD's that still do what they want, or chart stupidly, when they know better?

I think every generation goes through the black stage too! I had a pr of black combat boots and a chemical warfare coat. Geez, I was stylin' back then!

I envy you your photography skills. I wish I could take decent pictures. That's cool you got to shoot a wedding, even though you had no intention of doing it, lol.

Tan and brown are my faves during the winter months when I have to look professional at work. I looove dark chocolate brown.

So what school called you repeatedly??

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
Okay fellow 'lopes.....what do you do or how do you get over wanting to quit.

1) Told myself that it isn't a forever thing and there is an end in sight and to suck it up.

2) Did some small thing for myself. Bought some nice tea and chocolate when I had a paper to write (so that's where the 10 lbs I gained came from! :arghh:).

3) I didn't want to tell my kids that I quit, when I tell them not too.

4) My co-workers knew and I didn't want to look like a loser.

Hang in there sister. I think we all hit that wall where we feel we can't go on. I know Pandora and I both did. You have us to cheer you on, so keep on typing!!

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Specializes in Cath Lab, Case Management.
What in cath lab kills your back? The constant standing?

I have seriously thought about case management and urdp, which in our hospital is the same job. It seems overwhelming though. How do you learn everything you need to know and how do you cope with MD's that still do what they want, or chart stupidly, when they know better?

I think every generation goes through the black stage too! I had a pr of black combat boots and a chemical warfare coat. Geez, I was stylin' back then!

I envy you your photography skills. I wish I could take decent pictures. That's cool you got to shoot a wedding, even though you had no intention of doing it, lol.

Tan and brown are my faves during the winter months when I have to look professional at work. I looove dark chocolate brown.

So what school called you repeatedly??

The back....having to move extra extra large patients onto the table when there are only 3 of you, that and if you think about it the position of doing CPR is not a natural position...I'm sure that after years of those things it was bound to happen. I'm just glad that nursing allows a person to go in different avenues.

I have been blessed to work at a facility that the MDs come to us, we have the most awesome docs! If you have 10 years of experience you will find that you have a good portion of CM ready to go, the rest is just learning the caveats and to be honest they change the rules every year so in one year you will be up to speed. Besides they give you two years to be able to sit for your CCM (one if you work under a CCM). Seriously being able to be quick on your feet verbally from all the years of experience is a good portion of the job. That and a pause is golden, pausing lets the MD, patient, family think about it and come up with a better answer. Also no person ever died from a lack of case management. It is a great way to head into retirement (20 years from now =). You should request to shadow a case manager for a few days.

Yes to chocolate brown! Those tans to darker tans too. It goes with everything!

WGU.

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1) Told myself that it isn't a forever thing and there is an end in sight and to suck it up.

2) Did some small thing for myself. Bought some nice tea and chocolate when I had a paper to write (so that's where the 10 lbs I gained came from! :arghh:).

3) I didn't want to tell my kids that I quit, when I tell them not too.

4) My co-workers knew and I didn't want to look like a loser.

Hang in there sister. I think we all hit that wall where we feel we can't go on. I know Pandora and I both did. You have us to cheer you on, so keep on typing!!

One is not working....at all the last 4 days. Grrr

Two is not an option....that has never worked for me with anything, not sure why.

Three, well great I can't get around that one now can I.

Four, now that is ugly!

The thing is...I have never ever wanted to quit school. Ok enough whining....going to try and hit the books today.

Now that I've done stats, actually getting to read the first part of the book MIGHT be interesting....

Thanks for the encouragement!

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Specializes in Cath Lab, Case Management.
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...) :hdvwl:

Prism....I was letting my husband know about this...and his answer Evernote. I looked it up, and have started using it, it looks like it will work too. Works with both MAC and PC from the looks of it, but it will work good for me because it will work on my mini and phone so while I'm out and about I can use every second and pop those articles into Evernote! Yeah!

Another thought came to me as well. Don't laugh, okay?!!!

Pinterest. I mean it would organize them and they would be readily available, and you could use the Diigo highlighting app with it.

Just some thoughts :D

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
Prism....I was letting my husband know about this...and his answer Evernote. I looked it up, and have started using it, it looks like it will work too. Works with both MAC and PC from the looks of it, but it will work good for me because it will work on my mini and phone so while I'm out and about I can use every second and pop those articles into Evernote! Yeah!

Another thought came to me as well. Don't laugh, okay?!!!

Pinterest. I mean it would organize them and they would be readily available, and you could use the Diigo highlighting app with it.

Just some thoughts :D

Very good idea. Just as a side note, does anyone use dropbox so you can grab items off your phone? It changed the format even I was editing the first paper for the capstone on my phone. When I opened the same paper up on my laptop,Word was hyphenation all the words at the end of a line. I couldn't change it and my kids were clueless. I couldn't even copy and paste. My only recourse was to retype the paper. Thankfully I was only two pages in.

Not sure what I did, but the kids think it had to do with editing on a phone. So beware.

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
The back....having to move extra extra large patients onto the table when there are only 3 of you, that and if you think about it the position of doing CPR is not a natural position...I'm sure that after years of those things it was bound to happen. I'm just glad that nursing allows a person to go in different avenues.

I have been blessed to work at a facility that the MDs come to us, we have the most awesome docs! If you have 10 years of experience you will find that you have a good portion of CM ready to go, the rest is just learning the caveats and to be honest they change the rules every year so in one year you will be up to speed. Besides they give you two years to be able to sit for your CCM (one if you work under a CCM). Seriously being able to be quick on your feet verbally from all the years of experience is a good portion of the job. That and a pause is golden, pausing lets the MD, patient, family think about it and come up with a better answer. Also no person ever died from a lack of case management. It is a great way to head into retirement (20 years from now =). You should request to shadow a case manager for a few days.

Yes to chocolate brown! Those tans to darker tans too. It goes with everything!

WGU.

Wgu, eh? That's surprising.

The New CM now shares a space behind my desk, so I'm hoping to learn a lot from her, but so far my brain is scrambled, lol. She had to learn critical access rules and regs which is another animal, lol.

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One is not working....at all the last 4 days. Grrr

Two is not an option....that has never worked for me with anything, not sure why.

Three, well great I can't get around that one now can I.

Four, now that is ugly!

The thing is...I have never ever wanted to quit school. Ok enough whining....going to try and hit the books today.

Now that I've done stats, actually getting to read the first part of the book MIGHT be interesting....

Thanks for the encouragement!

Now that stats is OVER, why not take a half day and play hooky? Maybe you need a small respite?

Yeah #3 & #4 one really made me work hard. I didn't want to look like a failure in front of kids or peers. Sometimes fear and paranoia has its advantages!

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Okay fellow 'lopes.....what do you do or how do you get over wanting to quit.

I can't say I really have wanted to "quit" but the thought of taking a real break is hard to shake. I will finish stats in a couple weeks then one week break. The thing that mostly keeps me from taking an extended break is thT I really really want to enjoy myself next summer. The thought of taking a family vacation WITHOUT worrying about school or taking another class when the weather is nice is my biggest motivator for plowing through.

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