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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?

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PrismRN...because I haven't gotten there (Spirituality), I had heard rumors that you do not quote the Bible, so....how do you quote it? And maybe Shakespeare would show the same way in TII as they are both considered literary works?

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

You quote the passage

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Oh no, please don't do that to yourself, nobody cares what your score is as long as it's under whatever the instructor said. I once turned in a 19% and felt just fiiiiine clicking that submit button!

So, to add to your TII neurosis, I thought I'd share with you my Sunday evening's installment of "why TII makes no sense to me"...

1. So I quoted the heck out of the Bible in this paper. Seriously. Quoted. As in copied and pasted entire verses from biblehub.com (all properly cited, of course). I probably had 10-12 actual pasted entries in my paper. Here's me when I clicked the TII submit button: :nailbiting:. waited, waited, waited, finally Report Received! Not ONE of those copied verses from the B*I*B*L*E is highlighted?? It's the Bible for crying out loud! And it's from the internet! TII picked up on all my running heads and something from some school paper at Shanghai International Community School on Sikh gurus, but not the Bible? Okay.

2. My 2nd assignment due tonight was the revision of a peer-graded paper that I had actually turned in in week 2. TII = 10% back on 9/7/14. Looked at the peer's recommendations for corrections to my paper, decided only to remove a "the" and add one comma, plus remove an extra space that had slipped into a reference. Oh, and I changed the title of the paper to add the words "Final Draft". Here's me again :nailbiting: at the TII juncture...knowing my entire paper was just submitted 3 weeks ago, so logically this thing ought to come back at 100%, right? I considered not doing TII, but the Instr said anything >500 words, and tonight's the last night of class so I was afraid if I royally messed up I wouldn't be able to find him to explain myself. So...waited, waited, waited...Report Received! TII = 10% :banghead:. The same misc nonsensical junk it picked up the first time.

Moral of the story: don't worry about TII, don't try to understand it, and for Pete's sake if it's

And it gets even better. For the capstone all the papers are reused as are the lit reviews. Yet my huge paper came back very low to nothing. I can't remember exactly but it was either 0-1%.

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Prism. What's your take on Spirituality. One of my coworkers is in it now and says it is a hard class and she has to use Bible quotes a lot. It's a couple classes away for me.

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

Not Prism, but it is a paper heavy class, that goes into compassion fatigue, healing hospitals, death and dying in a comparison contrast with the story of Job. I'm not a bible person at all, so I had to go to THE most basic of stories. Forget thee and thou. I was more of the "See God. See God in the sky. See God have a talk with Job" Yeah, that was me, lol.

It is a very busy class, and for some odd reason, it seems to be the class that people may get a "B". There is no CLC but you do grade another person's paper, which is bad enough, especially when they have no clue what they are talking about. You don't have to take all of their advice, nor do they have to take yours. You then take your graded paper back, make corrections and resubmit the paper.

I wonder what professor your friend has? Mine didn't think a thing of whacking off 10-15 points off a paper and call it good.:crying2:

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PrismRN...because I haven't gotten there (Spirituality), I had heard rumors that you do not quote the Bible, so....how do you quote it?

I wonder if the rumors you heard about not quoting the Bible were actually referring to APA format - if so, it's true that you don't require a reference in your reference list, but as far as I know there's no rule about not quoting the Bible itself? That wouldn't make any sense (although I think I'm getting denser as the days go by). So what I did all through this class is say something about something that happened in the Bible, and whether I put quotation marks around it or not, I always followed with the (Job 1:8 NIV), or whichever book/chapter/verse I was referring to. You have to put the bible version in there too (NIV, KJV, NLT, etc.)

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Prism. What's your take on Spirituality. One of my coworkers is in it now and says it is a hard class and she has to use Bible quotes a lot. It's a couple classes away for me.

Well, it's saving grace is that there is no CLC, and no e-book so there's no chapters to read. The DQ's I find easy, because mostly they're about personal reflection & whatnot. My instructor didn't make us reference anything in our DQs (I'm paying for that now with my new Leadership instructor who wants 2 for every one LOL). tokmom is rightt, the papers require some research because they are things that I (personally) was not familiar with. And my personal bible is the old archaeic King James Version that never made any sense to me when I was a kid and still doesn't, so thank goodness for the internet! Biblehub and BibleGateway are great, they both have a search feature, and if you don't like the "lingo" in the KJV you can switch it to a different (more modern) version that is easier to understand.

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I wonder if the rumors you heard about not quoting the Bible were actually referring to APA format - if so, it's true that you don't require a reference in your reference list, but as far as I know there's no rule about not quoting the Bible itself? That wouldn't make any sense (although I think I'm getting denser as the days go by). So what I did all through this class is say something about something that happened in the Bible, and whether I put quotation marks around it or not, I always followed with the (Job 1:8 NIV), or whichever book/chapter/verse I was referring to. You have to put the bible version in there too (NIV, KJV, NLT, etc.)

That's how we were taught by the prof.

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Would taking spirituality and leadership during the time when we have Christmas break be stretching it? Not that I enjoy taking classes and just want to do it all at once, I just want to get it done and enjoy myself next summer. I'm not sure if I can convince my coworker who I am doing the program with to agree, but was wondering if doubling up on a class with spirituality during the break would be worth the temporary insanity.

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

If you work ahead on your own, but gcu doesn't open the forums to post, so there will be some things you can't do over the break. Sounds like a good choice if you want to work ahead during the holidays with no deadlines.

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It is a very busy class, and for some odd reason, it seems to be the class that people may get a "B". There is no CLC but you do grade another person's paper, which is bad enough, especially when they have no clue what they are talking about. You don't have to take all of their advice, nor do they have to take yours. You then take your graded paper back, make corrections and resubmit the paper.

I wonder what professor your friend has? Mine didn't think a thing of whacking off 10-15 points off a paper and call it good.:crying2:

I never thought of spirituality as a class I would not get an A in. I too, know nothing about the bible. The timeline of biblical happenings is what gets me. I am more worried about stats than anything, and I do have the best instructor for that class awaiting me in December (Thanks Tokmom). So my schedule is now messed up and I am in research now then ethics then statistics. The CLC groups don't bother me as much as they used to because we always seem to get A's on them. As much as I'd like to control everyone in my group, I know I cant so what can ya do? Maybe I should think about instructors who are awesome for spirituality?
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Specializes in ICU/ Surgery/ Nursing Education.

I knew this CLC Project was going to bite me in the hiney... I received most of the information from other group members and oh boy....

I am putting the power point together and checking the references. To put it nicely there is not much original content, or even paraphrased content. Yes there is references and citations (which I have had to correct) but really????

So, little advice please.... Should I just continue, finish it, and hand it in or redo most of it so that it will be in compliance? I realize that there isn't much original content in nursing theories, but it shouldn't be direct passages.

I wonder how she will grade. So far it has been fairly soft, but she hasn't graded the paper yet.

I am not going to like CLC projects......

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