Grand Canyon RN-BSN

[tokmom]

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?

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

Hey proud nurse, how is the capstone going? Are the directions more clear for you? Hang in there you can do this!

[derkfamily]

I am on the waiting list for one of the "preferred" teachers for stats. The class starts in January. I'm crossing my fingers I get in since I know absolutely nothing about stats. Can I email the instructor next month to see if I am still on the waiting list or if I am on his roster? I'm not quite sure how this works at GCU.

[proud nurse, BSN, RN]

Hey proud nurse, how is the capstone going? Are the directions more clear for you? Hang in there you can do this!

Thanks tokmom. The directions are becoming clearer, but trying to get 15 articles is tedious and ruining my life. Was that overly dramatic?

On a good note, my final grade was posted for Trends...100%!! Yay me. I have never in the history of my life ever received a final grade of 100%. Made my day.

[Winterwhite28]

I am on the waiting list for one of the "preferred" teachers for stats. The class starts in January. I'm crossing my fingers I get in since I know absolutely nothing about stats. Can I email the instructor next month to see if I am still on the waiting list or if I am on his roster? I'm not quite sure how this works at GCU.

As far as I am aware you go through your counselor only. A lot of the classes they do not have a teacher slotted for as of yet. I have a class in December that does not have a teacher assigned as of yet. Hth

[proud nurse, BSN, RN]

Did anyone do more than the 15 articles for the capstone? It asks for a minimum of 15...did you think it really made a difference?

[Winterwhite28]

So after wrangling and reading for the second assignment in Ethics....I think I'm ready to look for articles and start writing the paper. I had no idea that there was another dialect of nursing to learn!!!! Seriously the rubric is not going to allow for 1000 words!!!

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

Did anyone do more than the 15 articles for the capstone? It asks for a minimum of 15...did you think it really made a difference?

Some in my class kept it fifteen and I had 18. I only wanted more choices in case one article was not what the instructor was looking for. Otherwise, keep it at 15.

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

Thanks tokmom. The directions are becoming clearer, but trying to get 15 articles is tedious and ruining my life. Was that overly dramatic?

On a good note, my final grade was posted for Trends...100%!! Yay me. I have never in the history of my life ever received a final grade of 100%. Made my day.

Yuck on the articles and it's not over dramatic. It's a crap-ton of selecting, reading, and highlighting what areas to use, and digesting the information.

Just an FYI to the upcoming capstonians, (my newly coined term, lol) is this: Once you know what you want to do for your final paper, get those articles early, start highlighting parts you want to mention and know them well. It will save you a lot of time in the capstone to focus on the addendum and other papers.

[proud nurse, BSN, RN]

Lol @ capstonians!! I like that. I Freudian slipped yesterday, and called this class the Crapstone.

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

Oh that's funny!!

[JRich]

Did anyone do more than the 15 articles for the capstone? It asks for a minimum of 15...did you think it really made a difference?

I stuck to the 15 for the paper. I had printed more off to look through and pick the 15 I liked the best

[PrismRN]

So here I sit, in the midst of my Q-Sat/Sun ritual of deconstructing the week's assignment description and rubric to get some sort of semblance of what the heck I’m doing, before I can even do it. I wonder if the authors of these assignment descriptions have any idea how discomboobilated their final product turned out to be? It’s kind of like when you see someone at the grocery store that really had no business walking out of the house like that, you wonder to yourself “did they actually look at themselves right before they left and think, ‘Yep – good to go!’ as they gave themselves a wink and a thumbs-up in the mirror?” What were they thinking? Or when you drive by a marquee or a graphic sign that is misspelled and you wonder “How many people did that go through and they all signed off on it?” As I flip back and forth from screen to screen, description vs. rubric and back again for the 37th time, I’m tempted to get out my scissors and tape. You know those magnet sets you can buy that are just a bunch of individual words that you can then make into sentences on your fridge? That’s what I want to do. I want to print these out, cut them up into individual sentences, and tape them to a piece of paper in an order that actually flows and makes sense!

This is going to be a long weekend.