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]

It's coming! Only 2.5 weeks away! I think I actually did sleep for a whole week (not counting refreshing LC q5 minutes to see if my final grade was posted yet, of course). After THAT you will indeed sleep like a baby!!! :sleep: ZZzzzz......

Yeah, and the feeling you're forgetting to submit a paper!

[Winterwhite28]

Sorry I've not been around good to catch up! I shall be walking Saturday night so you all tune in and look for the crazy red head!

[Flames9_RN, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

Sorry I've not been around good to catch up! I shall be walking Saturday night so you all tune in and look for the crazy red head!

Enjoy!!

[lanoneus]

Appealing my grade worked. :) When the instructor said the still couldn't see how my paragraph answered the question, I went through and changed everything to first person, and underlined the sections that I kept from my original paragraph. I guess third-person was too complicated for her?

Anyway, I'm in 434 now and am a little stumped on the children's functional health pattern assessment. We are supposed to breakdown normal and abnormal assessment findings for three age groups: toddler, pre-school aged, and school aged. Examples are nutrition patterns, elimination patterns, activity/exercise patterns, etc. I'm just a little stumped. Most of the literature I come across breaks things down much more broadly: infant, child, adolescent, adult. How do I break it down in the weeds so much? Like for nutrition, if I identify potential nutrition problems, they would be like koilonychia (spoon nails from anemia), but all those age groups would be susceptible to it. I know some of the them can be age specific, like anorexia could only be found in school-aged, but most don't seem to be age specific. Anyone have any guidance? I'm going to ask the teacher too, but so far she has been spectacularly unhelpful to people's questions.

[PrismRN]

I think you're overthinking this (welcome to the club, btw )

Use the book for the class, it's all in there, it's the only reference I used. Mine was 7th edition (health promotion through the lifespan), but I just updated my booklist and there is a new 8th ed so that's probably what the syllabus recommends for your newer class. The book talks specifically about toddler, preschool aged, and school aged (chapters 18, 19, 20). Inside each chapter it says what is normal for those stages & potential problems, etc.

Remember to put Erickson's Developmental Stage for each age group at the top of each column (may have to Google those, I don't think it was in the book - which is weird).

Update - I just noticed that the syllabus has the assigned book for the HA class as Jarvis, but I used Edelman & Mandle for this assignment; had everything I needed. Prof probably didn't even notice?

[PrismRN]

Just saw Winter walking across the stage on the commencement video from tonight! WooHOOOOO! :anpom::ancong!:

[Winterwhite28]

And now I am done. And going to bed. I shall sleep all the way home.

[ro2878, ADN, BSN]

Congrats Winter!!!

[ro2878, ADN, BSN]

Appealing my grade worked. :) When the instructor said the still couldn't see how my paragraph answered the question, I went through and changed everything to first person, and underlined the sections that I kept from my original paragraph. I guess third-person was too complicated for her?

Anyway, I'm in 434 now and am a little stumped on the children's functional health pattern assessment. We are supposed to breakdown normal and abnormal assessment findings for three age groups: toddler, pre-school aged, and school aged. Examples are nutrition patterns, elimination patterns, activity/exercise patterns, etc. I'm just a little stumped. Most of the literature I come across breaks things down much more broadly: infant, child, adolescent, adult. How do I break it down in the weeds so much? Like for nutrition, if I identify potential nutrition problems, they would be like koilonychia (spoon nails from anemia), but all those age groups would be susceptible to it. I know some of the them can be age specific, like anorexia could only be found in school-aged, but most don't seem to be age specific. Anyone have any guidance? I'm going to ask the teacher too, but so far she has been spectacularly unhelpful to people's questions.

Exactly what Prism said! Everything literally comes right from the Edelman textbook except for the Erickson's Stages. I pulled that info from one of my old nursing books (but also very easily found online) Only two references I had were Edelman and my nursing book.

Ditto on the overthinking this assignment as well! It is a relatively easy assignment that is basically busy work.

[lanoneus]

You guys are the best! Thanks Prism, yeah, the syllabus doesn't mention anything about Health Promotion through the Lifespan, but there it all is! I'm gonna go post in the class room forum, since someone had already asked the teacher about not being able to find the information, and she had replied just with "No one's ever complained about it before."

[PrismRN]

and she had replied just with "No one's ever complained about it before."

wow...

[ro2878, ADN, BSN]

The quality of many of the instructors is questionable - makes you wonder!!! I am convinced that this is really a self-taught program. (She said as she sits here finishing up a PowerPoint assignment with the typical unclear instructions. Luckily, an individual assignment and not a CLC! Never thought I would be so happy about an assignment. haha)