NURS 4325 Research Start Date 5/20/2013

Nursing Students Texas (UTA)

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I am hoping others will join this thread and we will be as successful as in previous classes. Relax with our well earned week off. See you on May 20th.

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To anyone out there who still has to take this class I can only say pray you get in a good group(which is based alphabetically) and prepare for hell, it is shameful this class is allowed to continue and clearly diminishes the university's reputation.

This is me, I take the class in August. As sad as it is I am going to cut my work schedule to 2 days a week during this class and am planning on doing all the work by myself from the start. I am just accepting that from the beginning and if I happen to get a good group then maybe it won't last but either way I am not going to leave my grade in the hands of people that don't care. I have heard so many horror stories about this class that I am just preparing for the worst from day one, then I won't be surprised when it happens. It is very disheartening that this is how I already feel after not even beginning but I do not want to be put in the same position as scarletfire, waiting 30 minutes before it is due and getting nothing worthy of turning in leaving me to receive an F when I have clearly done my part. If they are going to give them credit either way then I might as well do all the work from day one and ensure I get a good grade.

I will be with you maryann. It is unbelievable! I am glad I saved it for the last (beside the capstone) nursing course. If I had that experience in the beginning, UTA would have been long forgotten by now and I would graduating from elsewhere. Vulnerable was bad enough, but at least I earned my A and did not depend or mooch off others for a grade. What the heck is wrong with these people in the groups? How can you live with yourself knowing some else is doing all the work!

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Scarlet, I just read ur post. I feel so terrible for u that u & j were basically crapped on by this class. I hope when it's all said and done that u report these problems to a higher authority. The AC & prof's are basically asking u to cheat. There is a question in the plagiarism quiz for the university that asks, "if a student doesn't know how to cite becuz they are from another country, is it still plagiarism?" And the answer is YES! What a nightmare!!! Ughh poor u. I hope things really work out for u & J. You guys did work for 5 people and deserve A's just for the amount of work u had to put in!

I really wish there was something that we could do to about this class. It's such a downward spiral.

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Shouldn't these professors realize that there is a reason why no one is getting A's in this class for a reason?!

Group work has taught me nothing!!!!!!!! I am not a better nurse because of it at all!!!!

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I am trying to plan the days I am going to work for this class in August and I was wondering if some one could tell me which weeks were the worst. I want to make sure I plan those with the most time free to complete the course work. Also, did you find that by the middle of week five you were pretty much done with the paper or did you need until the last minute on Saturday?

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Wow Scarlet fire, so sorry to hear. I thought our group had it bad. There's a HUGE problem with this class. If they want it run the way it is, they need to have supportive coaches who get on slackers instead of letting us do all of that. Yeah I know, learning to work in a group, blah, blah. As nurses we already know how to work in groups! I also had to leave names off papers and feel that should have been the coaches call, not ours. Why don't they look at file exchange, look at DB, then make the cut if needed. Unbelievable lack of professionalism all the way around for this class. We didn't even get our APA draft yet.

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I am trying to plan the days I am going to work for this class in August and I was wondering if some one could tell me which weeks were the worst. I want to make sure I plan those with the most time free to complete the course work. Also did you find that by the middle of week five you were pretty much done with the paper or did you need until the last minute on Saturday?[/quote']

Weeks 3-5 are the worst because there is more work for the group to do. But If u can wait till week one to decide ur sched then I would wait just to see if u are in a good group or a bad group.

My group has 5 members and I'm team leader this week, we are still working on the last paper cuz they are so slow to turn their info in. Totally sucks! I wanna be done with this hell already!!!!!

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ONE MORE DAY

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Can I just say...bless all of you, because I want to jump in front of a bus just reading this!

Personally, I find the program at UTA to be pretty easy overall - it's quite a bit of work (and therefore time consuming,) but so long as you account for all of the criteria the AC's and professor are looking for, and put forth a good effort, I've been finding it decently easy to get an A.

That being said, and forgive me for being crass, but the discussion boards continue to amaze me with the sheer amount of absolute, incoherent, nonsensical crap that half of these damn idiots write. Like, I swear 75% of them have to be the dumbest morons I have EVER encountered. How hard is it to proofread (this posting aside as I am on negative sleep!)? Or, how difficult is it to properly construct a readable sentence? Use spell check??

I am someone who takes every single criteria on the rubric and incorporates it into my assignments. If people miss something I will go mad. I've worked my *** off to maintain a 4.0 and actually care about my grades - I swear I am going to go into research with guns blazing and make my expectations known at the forefront. What a dumb class. I'm not in the mood for idiocracy and I fear that is what I will find!

Scarlet Fire - you need an award, an honorary A and a gallon of wine!

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Many many thanks to all of you who posted notes to me after reading my ordeal! You are the best. Your support and understanding has helped me tremendously. So, the end of the story is this: my partner, J. and I ended with our 10th draft of the paper written entirely by the 2 of us and she submitted it today, leaving off the names of 2 students who did not participate. We wanted to leave off all 3 names, but at the last minute one girl responded that she read our paper and she thought is was "well written." Dr. H. and our AC forced us to accept this lame-ass post as an actual contribution, and by this time J. had lost the desire to fight anymore. So, the long ordeal of over for us. I am still numb thinking back on it all. Yes, the group was bad, horrible, but the faculty of this class made things for us so much worse. The fact that they were completely aware that 2 students were doing the work of 5 starting week #1 and allowed us to struggle through the weeks without any assistance or support is unbelievable. Then, to tell us in Week #5 that we must help out our group members and do their work bec some of them do not have a grasp of the English language is shocking. Truly unbelievable.

Again, thanks to all my allnurses friends for your comments and support. Next for me is Leadership and then..... Capstone!!

Love, ScarletFire

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I am trying to plan the days I am going to work for this class in August and I was wondering if some one could tell me which weeks were the worst. I want to make sure I plan those with the most time free to complete the course work. Also, did you find that by the middle of week five you were pretty much done with the paper or did you need until the last minute on Saturday?

hi maryann,

well, every week for us was the worst, but it didn't have to be that way. If the group is functioning equitably the work load would probably be ok for most weeks, esp the last one bec the final paper is really a compilation of the previous assignments. so, it just depends. Also, if you received a grade

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oh my Scarletfire!!! I can NOT believe the hell you and j have been through these last 5 weeks. It is unreal the responses you are getting from the ac and prof, completely ridiculous is all I can say. All the other classes I have taken (minus this one) have been wonderful and gave me a positive feeling about the university. This class has been the sour grape. I thank my lucky stars that our group has been good. There are 3 of us who did the lions share of the work and 2 who posted at the deadline with minimal stuff and did not follow the OOH or rubric. We have just made the changes and submitted the group work. The quizzes are a joke. I hate the fact you don't even know what you did wrong leaving me with a sort of helpless feeling. How can you improve if you don't know what you did wrong?

I am thankful this will be over soon for me. My next class is capstone and then I am done. I have nothing good to say about this class and sadly can say I have learned nothing useful for me as a nurse. This class in just another hoop to jump through, and in my opinion clearly demonstrates how nurses eat their own. Sickening and a clear example of academia trying to over inflate their importance while subsequently turning off nurses considering advancing their professional status.

To anyone out there who still has to take this class I can only say pray you get in a good group(which is based alphabetically) and prepare for hell, it is shameful this class is allowed to continue and clearly diminishes the university's reputation.

mom3boys,

thanks for you kind words. Your group doesn't sound that great, either. Yes, the quiz questions were poorly worded and some questions did not relate to what we read or heard, but I got lucky with them. But, I did a lot of guessing, that's for sure. To me, this group-assignment method is just too hard to accomplish in an on-line class. They need to realize this and abandon this type of set-up. Or, maybe just have one assignment out of 5 that is in a group, but not all. It just doesn't work. Period.

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ONE MORE DAY

Hey Chicago,

What's next for you, my friend? Capstone? or do you have to do something else first?

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