Grand Canyon RN-BSN

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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?

and same with spelling!! I don't blame her, as both the refs and spelling are very basic errors and easy to avoid! I always use MS word for my DQ's--Well Perla, that way the spelling isn't an issue and thew refs are already correctly done....And 1 doesn't lose thewir work! Another Ref maker is BibMe: Fast & Easy Bibliography Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian - Free Never used it, but another classmate recommended it..believe it is free.

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When is your start date? I thought it was this Monday. I guess not, lol

I start on the 28th, but someone does begin on Monday.

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That is an invaluable little class. It gives you an idea how to navigate LC, which in the beginning can look intimidating with all the tabs, but it's pretty straightforward. This class will teach you how to post, and submit to tii and the dropbox. :)

Just a hint, work on your dq a head of time and save on Word (like others have said), and then you can simply cut and paste and do a bit of format tweaking and then post. Saves you from doing it in LC. There are times that LC gets grumpy and may not save your work. Having it on Word saves you a lot of angst. That only happened to me once and I never posted that way again, lol

Tokmom,

Sound advice as always. I once lost an 8 page paper just as I was adding my final reference. I tried everything I knew to retrieve it and final began the daunting task of re-writing. So I agree it only takes once for something like that to happen, to launch you into prevention mode.

Additionally I plan to take your advice about stats, start reading early to become familiar with the terminology.

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I wil send u a PM--about a good stats prof...I loved her...and the others that I recommended her too, loved her as well

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Specializes in UR/CM, Managed Care.
I once lost an 8 page paper just as I was adding my final reference. I tried everything I knew to retrieve it and final began the daunting task of re-writing. So I agree it only takes once for something like that to happen, to launch you into prevention mode.

Ain't that the truth, the exact same thing happened to me, and it only takes once to force you to learn the inner workings of your computer and figure out how to make your programs auto-save as you go along. I set mine up for like q3 seconds or something ridiculous like that, never again was that going to happen...

Also, I can't remember if you have PERRLA or plan on using it, but that pesky little program has caused me a couple HA's as well. I love it, and will continue to use it, but it does have its quirks. As tokmom has mentioned in the past, it's only as good as the information you feed into it (regarding reference details). This is why I also bought the APA book and frequent the OWL website for particulars. If you don't know what you're citing (government document, white paper, technical report, legislative materials, journal article, etc.), it's hard to know what to pop into the fields, thus making what it produces at the end look funny. Also, it won't let you have 2 papers open at the same time (so you can't refer back to a previous paper while in a new one, if the former was also created in the PERRLA program). Oh, and don't think you can go rogue and bypass the process and enter a reference manually - a box will pop up and ask you if you r e a l l y want to continue, and if you say "yes", it will wipe out all the previous references it had populated for you. These may all be operator-error issues in that I still haven't figured out the intricacies of the program, but trust me, a Sunday afternoon wipe-out of all your stuff is enough to make you self-admit to the loony bin. In summary: SAVE SAVE SAVE, don't try to override the program, and don't rely on it 100% (use it as just one of your many APA resources). Did I mention SAVE??? :blackeye:

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I plan to take your advice about stats, start reading early to become familiar with the terminology.

One tip here: don't do what I did and order things or waste time on materials that pertain to statistics in general. Since the language was so foreign to me I literally needed to start at the very bottom, and in retrospect I wish that what I had bought related directly to statistics in healthcare. By not focusing on stats in HC, I found myself learning the lingo and then having to make the extra leap to make those concepts fit to examples that made sense to my nursing brain. The class is so fast, you don't have time for that. Pick up some beginner materials for stats in HC and then you won't waste your brain cells on transitioning the info from business to health (mortgages to drug trials, you know).

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I wil send u a PM--about a good stats prof...I loved her...and the others that I recommended her too, loved her as well

Awesome thanks!!

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Specializes in UR/CM, Managed Care.

Regarding stats, this book was helpful to me: Google the term "medical statistics from scratch 2008" and this author's latest book will pop up in many places. You can peek at a few pages on Amazon, and read even more of it in GoogleBooks. It's elementary, but that's exactly what I needed, and his delivery style helped it to sink in.

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Tokmom,

Sound advice as always. I once lost an 8 page paper just as I was adding my final reference. I tried everything I knew to retrieve it and final began the daunting task of re-writing. So I agree it only takes once for something like that to happen, to launch you into prevention mode.

Additionally I plan to take your advice about stats, start reading early to become familiar with the terminology.

Ouch!! that would hurt. I think I would have cried...on the floor...curled up in a ball..

Thanks for the compliments. My goal is to help my fellow soon-to-be-alum avoid any pitfalls, lol.

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

Have to echo what Prism says. Make sure to focus on some healthcare stats because it's something you can relate too. I had a book called statistics for healthcare professionals. I used that and the dummies book. The stats book with gcu is pretty much a work book. I would say if they falter in class, it would be stats. I'm just really glad it's behind me, lol

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When is your start date? I thought it was this Monday. I guess not, lol

that is me tokmom.... I start this Monday :)

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that is me tokmom.... I start this Monday :)

Oh ok. I'm excited for you! Check in and let us know how it goes!

Charge on, as one of my instructors used to say. :yes:

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