Members are discussing the accreditation and acceptance of BSN and MSN degrees from GCU in different states, particularly focusing on the requirement of a preceptorship for BSN programs. There are concerns about certain states not accepting GCU BSN degrees, while others share experiences with the capstone course and offer tips for scholarly activities. Additionally, there is mention of GCU transitioning back to a non-profit status and the impact of this change on students.
Howdy all, I bit the bullet and after much research, I decided on Grand Canyon! Wow, I did not expect BSN schools to be like used car salesmen--hounding me by emails and phone calls. Rather impressed on how Grand Canyon sort of left me alone, but at the same time kept in touch.
Commence my first class Sept 30th, excited, yet very nervous, as I'm not a big fan of school, LOL! I did extremely well on my Associate degree, graduated back in 2009 from Northern Virginia Community College. We shall see.
Would love to hear from past and present Grand Canyon RN to BSN students.
Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
Yeah it kills me to say that you are probably right. I really think the point of the CLC is to create disharmony and see how it all plays out. Who cares what the project is. Underwater basket weaving for dummies or a disease process done in power point.
Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
Which class are you having trouble in with these clc students and instructor? Pm me please!
Pick one, hehehe.
I do have to say my first class and another one down the line, can't remember which now, had some MIA that eventually showed up. Otherwise, most did ok and did try.
All this does is reinforce the slackers' opinions that some of us are Type A's and should stop stressing over it.
The question then becomes, do we ourselves turn into slackers because experience has shown us that typically these projects, no matter how craptastic they are, still seem to get good grades?
I think that you have a great take on the situation. I may say that I will hang back on the next CLC project but I just don't see myself becoming a slacker. I care about the work I produce, I believe that I may not always succeed, but I will always do my best. I would bother me to know I could have done more and didn't.
I do we worry that the next instructor may not be such an easy grader and since we don't want to chance it, bust the butt and give ourselves bleeding ulcers by Saturday?
I always worry about this, but again this isn't why I try so hard. I have found that every project I have done has been wayyyy over the top. My previous instructors has said this to me all the time.
I hate to say this, and don't banish me from the island for this, but I have to wonder if the slackers have not just made their point...
Yes they have made their point, but I don't think they were trying to make a point. I feel most of them are fairly oblivious to what it is necessary to succeed. They just cruise by on the Type A's coat tails.
Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
I always said I was going to hang back as did Pandora. However both of us were biting our nails and would put our names on the editing line and kick ourselves for it. We just couldn't let go.
One clc we were in ALL four of us were type A. I would come home from work and see different pictures of blood cells (sickle cell) on my slide which were not mine. I'm sorry their cells looked no cooler than mine. It turned into a tug of war of personalities. It was pretty awesome when done, lol.
Coming up on the last week of Stats. Gotta say, based upon the forum posts, I'm glad there's no CLC for this. I do feel empathy for my cohorts that just aren't getting it, but surprisingly more people remain on the roster than I expected. Spirituality next, looks like.
Coming up on the last week of Stats. Gotta say, based upon the forum posts, I'm glad there's no CLC for this. I do feel empathy for my cohorts that just aren't getting it, but surprisingly more people remain on the roster than I expected. Spirituality next, looks like.
I'm probably one of the cohorts not getting it. Although my grade does not reflect my confusion, becasue I have learned how to work the system and utilize my resources lol. Tutors are wonderful. I'm sure if I had an extra 10-20 hours a week I would thoroughly understand it.
Anyone have any good heat sheets or good tools to help me get through applied statistics at GCU?
There are no cheat sheets circulating.
One of the tips being offered is to use the Thinking Storm tutors offered through GCU. The link is on the main page when you are logged into my portal. Each student if given 10 hours free, after that it is up to you. I'm finishing up week 4 of stats and I've used under 5 hours so far.
The other tip is to ask around for recommendations for a good instructor. Some of them are known to have video tutorials to help walk you through part of the weekly assignments.
Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
Coming up on the last week of Stats. Gotta say, based upon the forum posts, I'm glad there's no CLC for this. I do feel empathy for my cohorts that just aren't getting it, but surprisingly more people remain on the roster than I expected. Spirituality next, looks like.
Spirituality is an interesting class. Don't let your guard down thinking it's a piece of cake. It's a class with lots of papers and a CLC of sorts.
I am torn on how I feel about this, which I am suspecting happens more often than we think it does. I've never heard of anyone yet completely tanking a CLC.
Good: We all get good grades on these sub-par projects.
Bad: All this does is reinforce the slackers' opinions that some of us are Type A's and should stop stressing over it.
The question then becomes, do we ourselves turn into slackers because experience has shown us that typically these projects, no matter how craptastic they are, still seem to get good grades? Or, do we worry that the next instructor may not be such an easy grader and since we don't want to chance it, bust the butt and give ourselves bleeding ulcers by Saturday?
I hate to say this, and don't banish me from the island for this, but I have to wonder if the slackers have not just made their point...
In my ethics class, the one with the two part CLC, I know we turned in crummy work. I never want to be the main editor because I am VERY bad at grammar rules, especially commas and apostrophes. But I want to be a second editor because I'm still a native english speaker, and maybe I'm a little type A. I want to make sure it isn't just control-C control-V stuff.
Our group never decided on an opinion on euthanasia, so the writing was all over the place and each of us wrote completely differently because of this. I did my mess to clean up some of the nonsense sentences, but I know we turned in a C/B paper. It was also nearly double the maximum word count.
When we got 100%, I was actually sad. Super sad, I felt guilty because I know it was a really bad paper and that we didn't deserve it. I think the teacher was just really behind in grading, so she just skimmed looking for the main parts.
: ::sigh:: : CLCs are so stressful. I wish I could just turn off my caring for that assignment.
Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
I don't think the word count is important. I never had a problem with going way over.
However, I agree with the way things are graded at times. Some instructors are easy and some not.
I find it interesting that we ask each other for names of those easy instructors, but then complain when they are too easy. I'm not aiming this at you, Aimee, because I ditched a few of the more difficult ones too and I'm rambling. Looking back, the one's that cut me off at the knees are the classes I learned the most.
If it makes you feel better, a co worker went through a local bsn program that is nationally known university. All her papers were a 100%. I read a few of them. The APA was incorrect and the writing was iffy. Now she is in a msn program and suddenly no more 100%.
tokmom, BSN, RN
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Yeah it kills me to say that you are probably right. I really think the point of the CLC is to create disharmony and see how it all plays out. Who cares what the project is. Underwater basket weaving for dummies or a disease process done in power point.