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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.
Rob, I can assure you, I won't touch Fred! Felicity is turning into a labor intensive donkey. She expects treats as we wind down into the canyon at regular intervals. Fussy and sassy.

I don't know how to do a power point. Nor do I even understand that assignment at all. There are words I will have to look up on dictionary.com. I do have access to an IT review I can do.. but I hope someone in the group knows how to do it and/or can collaborate with me. I again, hesitate.. not sure I can do this.

I am sorry to be so wordy about my job. I get that way late at night. I am embarrassed as I overshared. Bedside nursing is not for me any longer, I could not keep up that pace physically or mentally. I suspect most of you all are hospital nurses and probably much more up to date.

My plan is to give this a try, if I don't try I will never know!

Have you started? If not, I encourage you to take a week or two and be familiar with power point and MS Word.

Do you have any teens in your life, maybe some co-workers who are in school or have kids? You only have to be shown once. You can also youtube what you need. There are a lot of tutorials online.

I did not know how to do any of what I needed to do, but had kids show me. It took that first class and a huge learning curve, but by the second class I knew how to operate Word, Peerla and do a power point.

Your first power point will be in your CLC and you will be responsible for a slide or two. That involves a few bullet points on a slide, a picture and speaker notes at the bottom of the slide. You then save it and post it as an attachment on the CLC forum.

PEERLA will put all your papers in one folder labeled PEERLA PAPERS. I also had a GCU completed folder and when I was done with a paper I would move it to the completed folder. I never did have a folder for each class, because PEERLA usually put them under that folder in alphabetical order. What I should have bought from the get-go was buy an external hard drive and back up what I had done. I learned the hard way when my laptop crashed in week 3 and I lost a power point, assessment and had to shell out a 100 bucks for Best Buy to recover the other stuff. Needless to say, as I was paying the Geek Squad for saving my sanity, I tossed in an external hard drive that I used faithfully from then on. I would back up a paper every half hour just to be safe.

Again, since your fear of failure is so high and you are already one step from bailing, you really need to be comfortable with these programs before you start.

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My girls are computer savy but live out of the city. Won't be home until Thanksgiving. I have done MS Word Tutorials, many times... learned a ton. I just didn't expect a power point this soon! I did download Peerla and am in my first month trial.. I will however pay/keep it.

I will watch some power point tutorials over the weekend. I am told not to post until Monday.. so will also prepare some responses and do some of the readings...

scared!:unsure:

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

What words do you not know that you have to look up?

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I don't even remember off the top of my head, but I did not understand the assignment for the power point at all. I will research.. let me look back....

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Select a Nursing Conceptual Model from Topic 2, and prepare a 12-slide PowerPoint presentation about the model. Include:

  1. A brief overview of the nursing conceptual model selected.
  2. Explanation of how the nursing conceptual model incorporates the four metaparadigm concepts.
  3. Explain at least three specific ways in which the nursing conceptual model could be used to improve nursing practice. Elaborate, explain, or defend each point mentioned.
  4. Provide current reliable sources to establish credibility for the presentation.

What in the H-ll is metaparadigm? This sounds not easy for me.

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I am not afraid, I am not afraid....:geek:

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

Ahh, look at your books. The syllabus should mention the book you need to read that mentions the metaparadigm. I had never heard of it either, but learned it quickly!

The assignment is asking your group to choose a nursing theorist. My group chose Dorothy Orem, who I thought was pretty cool. Others had Florence, lol.

Have you looked at your books yet and found the book you need?

The website they will send you to for theories is nursingcenter.com or current nursing. It's a very good website and one you will use again, so save it.

Nursing Theories and Nursing Models - Nursing Theory

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

Oh and no, this stuff isn't easy, but it's not rocket science. You can do this, so pull up the big girl pants and dig in to your reading. Nothing says you can't do that this weekend.

Yes, it's going to be a steep curve so be prepared for that, but it's not impossible and what you learn is freaking amazing stuff. GCU opened up a world of nursing I never knew existed.

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It will be like climbing a mountain! I will give it a go...

Thank you...

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
It will be like climbing a mountain! I will give it a go...

Thank you...

It will be and some days you will want to throw in the towel. I bet we have all felt that way. However, each and every one of us have kept on going because THERE IS AN END to school. It doesn't last forever.

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It will be and some days you will want to throw in the towel. I bet we have all felt that way. However, each and every one of us have kept on going because THERE IS AN END to school. It doesn't last forever.

Every few days I question whether I want to keep going......but then I remind myself this is for my future opportunities and then decide to double up a week to get it over with sooner. Haha. This is the first time I've doubled up and got myself ahead for the last week of research so I basically only have DQ responses and then keeping up on final CLC stuff while starting first week of ethics. It hasn't been too bad really. Now next week I'll likely be ready to quit again but I always suck it up and keep moving forward towards the goal!

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Perseverance.. the greater the obstacle the more glory in over coming it!

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