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.
I will have to agree with you on that one. The CLC's are the only part of the whole program I really dread. Out of 10 classes so far there have been maybe 2 that I was in a group with similar work ethic. I understand not everyone is as good at planning and working ahead to get things done without the last minute stress, but I am completely over the groups where I feel like I am the instructor for a preschool class. Ok kiddos, we're down to a week now..how are things going? I've not seen a single post from any of you? Anyone need help? Hello? and bit by bit I end up pretty much spoon feeding all of it just to get it going so we're not frantically posting back and forth a confusing mess at 11:30pm on Sunday. (Ok, I see you just posted all your changes, but you do realize so and so also just posted all their changes as well as the other so and so..and now they somehow need to all be combined into one document??..and you changed things on their parts as well so now which version are we using?? and no..I don't really feel like that should be me since I've done pretty much everything from day one? but since it's now 11:45 it likely will be me or it's not going to happen..) End of rant! It's almost over.
Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
I guess I'm one of those odd people that enjoys writing papers and doing research. I do get annoyed with many of these assignments, as they often seem boring and tedious, but I always find a way to make the work interesting. I've never spent more than four hours on anything so far - oh, except the CLC powerpoint that I had to basically write on my own
You haven't written the capstone yet have you? LOL. What class are you in?
I can write a paper in 4, it's the editing that bites me in the butt. I'm too anal.
I didn't mind writing papers, but the lack of family time was difficult on my kids.
Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
I will have to agree with you on that one. The CLC's are the only part of the whole program I really dread. Out of 10 classes so far there have been maybe 2 that I was in a group with similar work ethic. I understand not everyone is as good at planning and working ahead to get things done without the last minute stress, but I am completely over the groups where I feel like I am the instructor for a preschool class. Ok kiddos, we're down to a week now..how are things going? I've not seen a single post from any of you? Anyone need help? Hello? and bit by bit I end up pretty much spoon feeding all of it just to get it going so we're not frantically posting back and forth a confusing mess at 11:30pm on Sunday. (Ok, I see you just posted all your changes, but you do realize so and so also just posted all their changes as well as the other so and so..and now they somehow need to all be combined into one document??..and you changed things on their parts as well so now which version are we using?? and no..I don't really feel like that should be me since I've done pretty much everything from day one? but since it's now 11:45 it likely will be me or it's not going to happen..) End of rant! It's almost over.
An excellent reason to go through with a buddy. We at least had 2 of us in the CLC, so it didn't naturally default to just one of us.
What class was this? Hopefully I won't run into her/him anytime soon. I just thank my lucky stars that there is usually is a very small number of points for APA based on the rubric.
OK - I am needing urgent last minute help on my literature review in Family. The rubric and assignment all point to a paper on the 3 levels of health promotion, blah, blah, blah..... They don't even refer to a review of the three actual studies that we are supposed to review. I am feeling like these studies are supposed to support our paper on health promotion, rather than actually dissecting each study like I did in Nursing Research. Someone please let me know if I am on the right track with this. I am also waiting for a response from my instructor as well. Fortunately I do not have a paper due this week in Ethics or I would be completely out of my mind right now.
Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
You do your own studies. Mine were on the three levels of heart failure . I mentioned the level and what the paper spoke too. Does that help? Go to the gcu library and use the search engine. Place the word secondary etc in the Boolean search.
I went back and looked at my paper from last year. The teacher was very nice and told me I should have used headings and here is and what she said. Your paper should have an introduction paragraph with the intent (thesis) Such as Health promotion is….thesis; in the following the author will discuss…..(just an example). Paragraph 2 heading Health Promotion, Paragraph 3Nursing Roles and Responsibilities, Paragraph 4, Implementation of Health Promotion, Paragraph 5, Comparison of Levels of Health Promotion and last paragraph is Conclusion. All headings were to be centered.
You write about each heading by looking at what the rubric wants. I started the 2nd paragraph “Health Promotion” with a definition of it.
The literature review is done in the 5th paragraph as you compare the 3 levels of health promotion and use your three articles (one on each level) to compare the 3 levels of health promotion. Example from my paper; In the application of primary prevention of type 2 diabetes an article in the Canadian Journal of Diabetes, proposes the use of family and individual patient education, in areas of diet, exercise as well as behavioral and attitudinal changes aimed at steering and correcting at risk patients away from behaviors that promote development of a pre-diabetic condition (McMorifice, 2012). In contrast to primary prevention, secondary prevention measures for type 2 diabetes…
Thank you so much guys. Purple - I was going to approach it exactly as you described. It just seems weird to me that they call it a "Literature Review" but we only actually address the studies at the end of the paper. I just finished Research where you actually analyze the studies. Oh well, there are quite a few assignments that just don't make sense.
Well, this just goes to show you how differently each person interprets and implements the rubric points, as well as the instructors! PurpleMyst, as I look at your post above and compare it to the rubric, it makes perfect sense. I didn't think of it that way either, in retrospect I may have blocked out my paper in that fashion (I've learned since then that following the rubric to the letter and using exact language from the assignment description in my paper has gotten me the best results as far as a grade). I also looked back at my paper, vastly different than what PurpleMyst's instructor recommended...
Intro: Definition of Health promotion and thesis statement (btw, I used the actual word "introduction" and bolded it, but didn't get busted?)
Opposite of PM's instructor, I went with ALL secondary headings, flush left and bolded (again, no comment from Instr). They were:
Purpose in Practice (essentially why nurses are the best discipline for health promotion)
Primary Prevention (definition of, how a nurse implements it, and described the article I found to support my paragraph)
Secondary Prevention (same as above)
Tertiary Prevention (same as above)
Evolution of Health Promotion in Nursing (talked about how the role of a nurse has morphed from its roots into health promoter)
Conclusion (centered)
It's no wonder we get confused; now that I see my old paper, other than the incorrect Introduction, I never HAD any primary headings that would then allow for secondary headings. Oh, and I got 100% on the paper. :nuke:
Noodles, I did NOT dissect the 3 studies (as one would in an actual "Literature Review"), I think you may be reading too much into the assignment because you HAVE taken the Research class. The class you are in now is typically class #2, but because you did them out of order, you are applying advanced knowledge that you aren't expected to know yet for this class. I could be wrong, but all I did was find 3 articles (1 for each level of promotion/prevention), and use them as I would any other reference - just to support my points. I think the title of the assignment, "Literature Review", is misleading, kinda sounds like you're expected to analyze and critique the research (thus, providing a REVIEW of the literature). :sstrs:
I'm interested in your Instr's response to your inquiry!
Mine were on the three levels of heart failure . I mentioned the level and what the paper spoke too.
LOL And THIS makes perfect sense too (describing the three levels of health promotion for ONE disease process). I didn't think of that either, my PP article was research supporting teaching school-age children, my SP article focused on those interventions appropriate at the stage of earliest detection of serious risk factors, illness or disease (cancer screening for those w/ an identified risk, ASA for cardiac risks, smoking cessation for potential COPD'ers), and my TP article supported prevention of further clinical and physical deterioration while maximizing one's quality of life who is already in the throes of a disease process (example was a spinal cord injury patient). Wow, I was all over the place. Sheesh.
Well, this just goes to show you how differently each person interprets and implements the rubric points, as well as the instructors! PurpleMyst, as I look at your post above and compare it to the rubric, it makes perfect sense. I didn't think of it that way either, in retrospect I may have blocked out my paper in that fashion (I've learned since then that following the rubric to the letter and using exact language from the assignment description in my paper has gotten me the best results as far as a grade). I also looked back at my paper, vastly different than what PurpleMyst's instructor recommended...
Intro: Definition of Health promotion and thesis statement (btw, I used the actual word "introduction" and bolded it, but didn't get busted?)
Opposite of PM's instructor, I went with ALL secondary headings, flush left and bolded (again, no comment from Instr). They were:
Purpose in Practice (essentially why nurses are the best discipline for health promotion)
Primary Prevention (definition of, how a nurse implements it, and described the article I found to support my paragraph)
Secondary Prevention (same as above)
Tertiary Prevention (same as above)
Evolution of Health Promotion in Nursing (talked about how the role of a nurse has morphed from its roots into health promoter)
Conclusion (centered)
It's no wonder we get confused; now that I see my old paper, other than the incorrect Introduction, I never HAD any primary headings that would then allow for secondary headings. Oh, and I got 100% on the paper. :nuke:
Noodles, I did NOT dissect the 3 studies (as one would in an actual "Literature Review"), I think you may be reading too much into the assignment because you HAVE taken the Research class. The class you are in now is typically class #2, but because you did them out of order, you are applying advanced knowledge that you aren't expected to know yet for this class. I could be wrong, but all I did was find 3 articles (1 for each level of promotion/prevention), and use them as I would any other reference - just to support my points. I think the title of the assignment, "Literature Review", is misleading, kinda sounds like you're expected to analyze and critique the research (thus, providing a REVIEW of the literature). :sstrs:
I'm interested in your Instr's response to your inquiry!
I Agree with you, we each interpret in our own special way. It's really interesting!
arizzonadoc
18 Posts
I will have to agree with you on that one. The CLC's are the only part of the whole program I really dread. Out of 10 classes so far there have been maybe 2 that I was in a group with similar work ethic. I understand not everyone is as good at planning and working ahead to get things done without the last minute stress, but I am completely over the groups where I feel like I am the instructor for a preschool class. Ok kiddos, we're down to a week now..how are things going? I've not seen a single post from any of you? Anyone need help? Hello? and bit by bit I end up pretty much spoon feeding all of it just to get it going so we're not frantically posting back and forth a confusing mess at 11:30pm on Sunday. (Ok, I see you just posted all your changes, but you do realize so and so also just posted all their changes as well as the other so and so..and now they somehow need to all be combined into one document??..and you changed things on their parts as well so now which version are we using?? and no..I don't really feel like that should be me since I've done pretty much everything from day one? but since it's now 11:45 it likely will be me or it's not going to happen..) End of rant! It's almost over.