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]

This was my primary issue with online learning. When something didn't make sense in a real life classroom, it's easy to simply raise your hand or whisper to the person next to you and ask for clarification. Online makes it more of a struggle, because you have to either wait for an answer or figure it out the best you can.

What assignment is this?

[kwmom]

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.

If you wouldn't mind sending me a pm of who your trends instructor was (assuming you'd recommend) I would be forever grateful for the recommendation. :)

[PrismRN]

What assignment is this?

It's the very first paper in Trends. I finally figured it out, doing the piece-meal approach I described above (in my mind, didn't have to break out the gluestick LOL). As I kept reading, it was just sounding like a duplicate of the paper we wrote in the first class on the IOM (practice to the fullest extent, get your BSN, be active in policy, etc). It took me a while to figure out that I need to focus on the IMPLEMENTATION of the IOM report, not what's in the report itself. The way I see it now, it's asking for how was the report born - who are the players that made this whole thing come to life and why (who are the RWJF ppl, what was the research that the IOM contributed, where does AARP fit in), and now that it all came together in a report with actual recommendations, what exactly is my state doing about it (with specifics and numbers, of course)? Honestly, that took me way too long to just get an organized layout in my head of what they want, how to organize it into a readable paper that flows, and then go find the supporting documentation to back up my undertanding of it all. In my last class, the instructor kept giving me lower marks for the rubric section that describes transition and flow. I wanted to write back and say "that's because the description is jacked and doesn't match the rubric, so yes, I was doing the best I could to figure out what goes where and not be over the place!" Which made me sad, because I thought I did a good job of moving from one subject to another in a logical manner If I followed the description/rubric line by line, it would have come out something like this:

How to bake a cake:

Get all your measuring cups out.

Measure your flour, put into bowl.

Bake for 35 minutes.

Add 1/4 t. vanilla.

Get out your bowls.

Preheat oven to 350.

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

It's the very first paper in Trends. I finally figured it out, doing the piece-meal approach I described above (in my mind, didn't have to break out the gluestick LOL). As I kept reading, it was just sounding like a duplicate of the paper we wrote in the first class on the IOM (practice to the fullest extent, get your BSN, be active in policy, etc). It took me a while to figure out that I need to focus on the IMPLEMENTATION of the IOM report, not what's in the report itself. The way I see it now, it's asking for how was the report born - who are the players that made this whole thing come to life and why (who are the RWJF ppl, what was the research that the IOM contributed, where does AARP fit in), and now that it all came together in a report with actual recommendations, what exactly is my state doing about it (with specifics and numbers, of course)? Honestly, that took me way too long to just get an organized layout in my head of what they want, how to organize it into a readable paper that flows, and then go find the supporting documentation to back up my undertanding of it all. In my last class, the instructor kept giving me lower marks for the rubric section that describes transition and flow. I wanted to write back and say "that's because the description is jacked and doesn't match the rubric, so yes, I was doing the best I could to figure out what goes where and not be over the place!" Which made me sad, because I thought I did a good job of moving from one subject to another in a logical manner If I followed the description/rubric line by line, it would have come out something like this:

How to bake a cake:

Get all your measuring cups out.

Measure your flour, put into bowl.

Bake for 35 minutes.

Add 1/4 t. vanilla.

Get out your bowls.

Preheat oven to 350.

I think you really should be a comedian and skip this nursing business.

Once you described the assignment, it clicked in my brain, "Oh that paper" :barf01:

I too felt like I was going around in circles. I had heck of a time figuring out what was needed and found myself constantly switching between websites piece mealing. Drove me CRAZY!:angthts:

[rob4546, BSN, MSN]

I have a little time today so I want to respond to something from pinkpetunia that has been bothering me. I hope she is still around because I haven't seen much from here lately.

They look as me like I am from outer space and I don't plan to even tell them I have decided for sure to move forward. Everything I got except for one RN, in my dept was absolutely negative. Then we had the run down of why one shouldn't be an RN from the MA's.

This program does require support from others, but don't try to find it with co-workers. I work on a really great unit but as far as education is concerned I am just the running joke. They just ask how things are going so they can poke fun at it. Funny thing is, I will be the ranking nurse on the floor in a little over a year.

I do know of two others who are in other depts, that have gone thru the program and have offered support. Which I appreciate. They are younger ppl but smart and I trust them.

Find people like this and ask questions. The person in charge of education at my facility went through GCU and has offered support and even her papers so that I can see how they are expected to be done. I have bounced questions off her noggin but the sharing papers idea struck me as unfair. Don't know why, it isn't like I can turn them in as my own because the Turnitin Gods would spite me down.

There is great support here.

[rob4546, BSN, MSN]

Speaking of Turnitin, I just pulled the arm on the Turnitin slot machine and looking for a winner!!!

[pinkpetunia]

I am scheduled to start this week. Thank you Rob for such a kind and thoughtful note. I was going to pass, but then I looked around at who I work with, their mentalities... and I just need more. I am not trying to make myself feel superior, I just do.

I have written my responses to the two discussion questions and have done the reading. Not sure how many I have to respond to? Is it 2 or 4 a week? On which days?

I got my new kitten a new kitten yesterday for company. I won't always be home or available to run around with a mouse at the end of a wand! So far getting along well. This is all in preparation for many hours of school work.

Felicity is jealous of the kittens.

[pinkpetunia]

I do think nurses can be each other's enemies. As Rob said, I plan to disregard. I will follow my own path. And I don't think I will even tell anyone. I have one best RN friend that I trust. Otherwise, no one gets it anyway. So why bother.

[rob4546, BSN, MSN]

Speaking of Turnitin, I just pulled the arm on the Turnitin slot machine and looking for a winner!!!

3%!!! Winner winner, chicken dinner!! Suuuuubbmittttttttt....

[PrismRN]

3%!!! Winner winner, chicken dinner!! Suuuuubbmittttttttt....

Fingers crossed for Prism, I'm only on word 490 and it's 4pm AZ time..... Let's hope the TII Gods haven't decided to update their servers on a Sunday night

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

I have a little time today so I want to respond to something from pinkpetunia that has been bothering me. I hope she is still around because I haven't seen much from here lately.

This program does require support from others, but don't try to find it with co-workers. I work on a really great unit but as far as education is concerned I am just the running joke. They just ask how things are going so they can poke fun at it. Funny thing is, I will be the ranking nurse on the floor in a little over a year.

Find people like this and ask questions. The person in charge of education at my facility went through GCU and has offered support and even her papers so that I can see how they are expected to be done. I have bounced questions off her noggin but the sharing papers idea struck me as unfair. Don't know why, it isn't like I can turn them in as my own because the Turnitin Gods would spite me down.

There is great support here.

Thankfully, there are a lot of people on my floor that are in school. Some who just graduated with their RN-BSN are now headed for their MSN, and another for her FNP. The others have no interest in what I did in school and never asked. When I posted on FB timeline, that I finished my paper, you could hear crickets from the vast majority of people. The non nursing people didn't understand and the co-workers don't see the importance or were jealous. People don't make fun of me, thankfully. I Just get indifference. Like you though, Rob. I'm considered one of the nurse leaders of the floor and have the most education at this time.

I'm glad you have someone to bounce your papers off of by a previous GCU person. I'm confused about the paper comment though. Do you think it's an unfair advantage to see what papers look like?

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

I am scheduled to start this week. Thank you Rob for such a kind and thoughtful note. I was going to pass, but then I looked around at who I work with, their mentalities... and I just need more. I am not trying to make myself feel superior, I just do.

I have written my responses to the two discussion questions and have done the reading. Not sure how many I have to respond to? Is it 2 or 4 a week? On which days?

I got my new kitten a new kitten yesterday for company. I won't always be home or available to run around with a mouse at the end of a wand! So far getting along well. This is all in preparation for many hours of school work.

Felicity is jealous of the kittens.

You have to respond to two people for three of the 7 days, for a total of SIX responses. This does NOT include your own original DQ. I had a difficult time wrapping my brain around the amount and how to respond. Don't ask me why. Once I started it made sense.

My routine looked like this:

Post my DQ on Monday

Answer TWO people EACH day for Monday, Tue, Wed.

I usually threw in a few more, for the other days to pad the responses. My average was probably 10-12 responses in a week. Mostly because I found them interesting and wanted to respond back to others. I think it was Ethics, but I had well over 20 responses because the forum was very interesting.

Just make sure that you type more than a sentence or say GOOD JOB! Those don't count. Some of my comments I knew did not count toward points because they were simple. However I always made sure I had adequate responses for the ones that did count.

You will be fine.

Congrats on the kitties! I had one cat keep me company while I wrote out my lit review. Astro was all over my papers and kept my research in one place-under his fat body, lol.