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.
@Winterwhite, wow now that is crazy, I really do dislike group work, I would rather get assignments done myself. I would prefer less papers though and maybe a quiz or two LOL Question how do you check for plagiarism on google?
@flames9_RN, you guys have been so very helpful in me making my decision to attend GCU. It is great to come across GOOD instructors that motivate you, teach you, and make you want to do all the assignments, and thats what I hope I get. This will be my first time doing online classes so it will be a little hard for me to get the hang of things and having an instructor that doesn't really care about their students success is and well being is not the instructor i ever want lol
I tend to agree with most here, there really is no secret Golden List of professors. The one instructor that I had that I would not ever want again still gave me an A (because I did what the online classroom asked of me and followed the rubrics), it was just a really confusing 5 weeks of reading her ramblings and not making any sense. Online learning is sooooo different from sitting in a classroom, the interaction consists of reading their announcements (their declarations of what not to do in their classes LOL) and the tiny paragraph of their comments about your assignments "Overall excellent paper, let me know if you have any questions"). One time I actually did have a question of my Stats instructor and his response was "Hi ____, I cannot answer this for you now." What the heck? My point is that I agree with Flames - this environment is self-driven. Your success comes from your own motivation to make the time, do the reading, be engaged and "visible", and start early in case the system crashes on Sunday. The good thing is that, again as Flames said, the classroom environment is easy to figure out, the assignment instructions are right there, the rubrics are cookie-cutter, and you could literally do the work and not ever be in contact with a professor if you didn't want to (and as JRich, tokmom and myself have figured out, sometimes you're better off not even going there). I really sometimes feel like I'm going to school by myself, and the instructor is the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain that just grants my grades. And I don't mean that in a bad way, I'm not sure I have the time for any extra engagement! It grates on my nerves when someone asks the instructor a question and it's obvious that the student has not been reading the book or the prof's announcements or previous Q&A from other students, because the answer is right there, and now you just wasted my time (again) because I had to click on that message to see if it was anything important and it wasn't, you're just lazy and want your information spoon-fed to you! And then I have to click on it again when you reply to the prof, "OOPS, sorry! I see it now! Thanks!"
@PrismRN, I will for sure keep all of the tips I read on these threads and all the tips that were given to me in the back of my head at all times. LOL I actually like to read EVERYTHING lol but hate writing papers. But the good thing is so far from all the info i got the papers are not 10-20pg each. I would die. And that was funny about the Wizard of Oz thing! I like that!
Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
I have had pretty good profs, can't complain..Some mark fairly fast, some wait til Sunday....Soem have provided feedback, some very little. Online classroom is very well laid out and easy to follow. The discussions are pretty boring and bland.....no 1 states anythign except the the obvious,lol.."great post best, that is soo brilliant" "I could not agre with you more" blah blah blah. I feel bad for the profs reading them. My last prof in Research was awesome..she actually called out a few about that and in a few of her responses she asked what that person had wrote had to do with the topic.
I don't think that has ever been allowed in any of our classes. In the capstone, the response must be a paragraph long. That can be difficult when one is talking about quantitative research.
Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
why not use PERRLA if you have it....it keeps the database, so you can use it for other papers. problem I ran into last class--was my desktop bit the dust,lol and I was doing the groups reference page..duh!! I wish ones refs were saved up in the cloud, so it would work on my laptop!! There are a fe wother free ones as well.
PEERLA comes in handy when it has come to the capstone. All my references are in the PEERLA database and all I have to do is decide where I want it and click it into place.
PEERLA comes in handy when it has come to the capstone. All my references are in the PEERLA database and all I have to do is decide where I want it and click it into place.
I got to thinking after I made that post on how nice it probably is to have all references in one place when you get further along. Wasn't thinking ahead, AGAIN! I think I saw somewhere that someone mentioned some instructors don't like PERRLA? How do they even know you used it?
@PrismRN, I will for sure keep all of the tips I read on these threads and all the tips that were given to me in the back of my head at all times. LOL I actually like to read EVERYTHING lol but hate writing papers. But the good thing is so far from all the info i got the papers are not 10-20pg each. I would die. And that was funny about the Wizard of Oz thing! I like that!
I'm in the 2nd class and the max word count so far has been 1500. Most are 750-1000 words. Not bad at all. In fact, I'm often trying to figure out how NOT to go over the word count
Looks like you and i are in the same position about starting this bsn online program with GCU! If you are planning on starting this month we need to try and chat...and help eachother out so we can get through it succssfully!
I got to thinking after I made that post on how nice it probably is to have all references in one place when you get further along. Wasn't thinking ahead, AGAIN! I think I saw somewhere that someone mentioned some instructors don't like PERRLA? How do they even know you used it?
That was me/my instructor for this last class, and I don't know how they would know. I tried to use the GCU APA template for my first paper and yes, it worked, but from then on out I've been having trouble with my Word program (someone told me I might have a macros virus??), but seriously it started when I used that thing, I tried to open the doc the prof sent back graded and my whole computer froze up (on a Sunday night no less, and I lost 4hrs worth of work on the paper I was writing). So, I ditched that and used PERRLA for the rest of the class and never heard a word. Also, regarding PERRLA, I saw your note earlier about copy/pasting from an old paper into a new one - remember - PERRLA has that freaky little bug that sometimes when you paste a ready-made ref in there it deletes all the ones you had in there!! Plus, then it's not in your database, it's just on that one paper. I love it, but it has its quirks
I'm in the 2nd class and the max word count so far has been 1500. Most are 750-1000 words. Not bad at all. In fact, I'm often trying to figure out how NOT to go over the word count
@RN0511, See that's what I like if I have to write a paper minimal word count LOL I'm never am lucky enough to have to many words and have to scale down.
Looks like you and i are in the same position about starting this bsn online program with GCU! If you are planning on starting this month we need to try and chat...and help eachother out so we can get through it succssfully!
@feliciarn22, I am still waiting for the call about my transfer credits so that I have an idea of which classes I have to take. I will let you know as soon I register for my first class.
behind the curtain that just grants my grades. And I don't mean that in a bad way, I'm not sure I have the time for any extra engagement! It grates on my nerves when someone asks the instructor a question and it's obvious that the student has not been reading the book or the prof's announcements or previous Q&A from other students, because the answer is right there, and now you just wasted my time (again) because I had to click on that message to see if it was anything important and it wasn't, you're just lazy and want your information spoon-fed to you! And then I have to click on it again when you reply to the prof, "OOPS, sorry! I see it now! Thanks!" 
And that was funny about the Wizard of Oz thing! I like that!
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@Winterwhite, wow now that is crazy, I really do dislike group work, I would rather get assignments done myself. I would prefer less papers though and maybe a quiz or two LOL Question how do you check for plagiarism on google?