NUR121 - Nursing Process at Rio. Anyone did this?

RNfaster · Jun 24, 2008

I have taken many prereqs at Rio. I also took CHM151 at Glendale Community College (GCC). GCC trounced Rio in terms of quality of faculty and course materials.

Rio's materials are often outdated and otherwise poorly written (in one healthcare class, I had to answer questions as if it were 2000 --not 2007 as the questions had never been updated per current statistics). The faculty are adjunct, which means contract/temporary. --In contrast, GCC has permanent faculty. These permanent faculty (in the CHM department) seem to be more vested in their school and its success (I can't help but believe that this attitude would extend to the nursing department). It is quite evident in their excellent course materials. --Adjunct faculty at Rio have indicated to me that they are unable to trigger updates to lesson or testing materials (you will get a bad question early in the semester, and even though you alert someone to it, it still may appear on your final).

Earlier today, I called Rio to ask if any of their nursing faculty were permanent. I was told they were all adjunct. -That really disappointed me. I really like the convenience of attending school online. I am also good at dealing with self-directing my studies. I think I could deal with the annoyances at Rio, but I sure would like to hear from someone who has done it... Hopefully, they had a great experience.

I noticed this post and was hoping someone would respond. As no one has, I will post this message.