I'm done! Singing the praises of WGU

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No way I could have done this without WGU. They have made a dream of mine come true. I am finally a college graduate! I just graduated from their prelicensure program. It still seams so surreal. Next up NCLEX! If I can do it anyone can do it! Believe me I have had soooo many obstacles along the way including an unplanned pregnancy. My littlest one is going to the pinning ceremony with me in his WGU onesie bought by one of my classmates! I absolutely love WGU and can't say enough good things about it. Best decision I ever made.

Congrats!

I'm curious: WHat happened with your pregnancy? Did you have to take a semester off, or did you just get lucky enough to give birth around your clinicals?

(When discussing people not making it in, pregnancy was one of the things we assumed would get you out of the cohort.)

I'm waiting for my interview to see if I get to be one of the ten moving on from the twelve of us in our cohort in LA - and I'm not pregnant. :)

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Congrats!

I'm curious: WHat happened with your pregnancy? Did you have to take a semester off, or did you just get lucky enough to give birth around your clinicals?

(When discussing people not making it in, pregnancy was one of the things we assumed would get you out of the cohort.)

I'm waiting for my interview to see if I get to be one of the ten moving on from the twelve of us in our cohort in LA - and I'm not pregnant. :)

Nope WGU was very supportive at least at my location. I did not take a term break. I did my last clinical day at 38 weeks and delivered 6 days later. Then I didn't have another clinical rotation for 6 more weeks. My baby nicely timed himself for the gap between clinicals. I am not sure what I would have done if he came early because I was doing clinicals at 37 weeks.

Good luck to you! Our cohort didn't have more than 10 people and I have never actually heard that they cut 2 people just for size. I'd be curious to hear back from you if they actually do (before the first simulation tests or ATI exams).

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Awesome! Good to know I may not have to put my family advancing on hold if that happens. (Gonna try to wait, but you never know!)

Well, we had 12 accepted into our cohort and everyone passed the intro lab. We were told that only 10 can move on to the last two years together.

I'm fairly certain that one person isn't moving on (not sure who, but at least one person didn't do their other classes). I don't know if they will make an exception and let the remaining 11 of us move on. We'll know soon, though!

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i thought WGU was for Rn's already licensed?

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

They have a prelicensure program that is available in a handful of state, as well.

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i thought WGU was for Rn's already licensed?

California, Indiana, Texas, Florida, and Utah have a prelicensure program. I highly recommend it! Not only was it more flexible than a traditional program I feel the quality of education was better. The clinical experience was better and I am better prepared for working in the real world as an RN. I was in a traditional program for a year earlier in my life, but had to withdraw due to family issues. I can compare the 2 and hands down the education was superior at WGU!

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Good luck to you! Our cohort didn't have more than 10 people and I have never actually heard that they cut 2 people just for size. I'd be curious to hear back from you if they actually do (before the first simulation tests or ATI exams).

They cut two people. We were 12 before the first lab weekend (The Intro to Nursing Clinical Skills lab: the bedmaking/transfers/ambulation/VS lab), everyone made it past that. Then, we just did our interviews and we start our remaining two years at the beginning of the month - only ten of us made it on (they were definitely cut).

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