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I worked at Cook Childrens for 3 years and loved it. 80 bed unit spanned over 2 floors, all private rooms. Neo and NNP's in house 24/7, milk is mixed by dedicated milk bank techs, equipment tech's so you never have to clean an isolette. You will see anything and everything here. Level 4 NICU and Echmo. I left making $34/hour plus shift diff. You won't get a day shift position when first hired, so that is a downfall. But, the morale is usually great and I have made some life long friends there.

I took College Mathematics at SUNY Empire State College, completely online, no proctored exams and completely manageable. I graduated from UTA in December and all you need is a math course that is at the college level, it does NOT have to be algebra. The course is pricey but well worth the money I spent for a piece of mind that I would pass. Good luck. No problems transferring the credit to UTA either.

ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TAKE ALGEBRA AT UTA!! I am awful at Math and knew college algebra was not going to work for me at UTA. I took College Mathematics from Empire State College, completely online, not proctored, but completely doable! The cost was around $1200.00 but worth every penny. I made a B and it satisfies UTA's math requirement. I graduate next month with my BSN from UTA.

Could anyone tell me if the book for nursing research is really needed? Thanks ;-)

Could anyone tell me if buying the book for NURS 4455 "Management" class is worth it? Or can the course be used without it. Thanks

ladyD123, I just started the 8 week Statistics Course at UTA. just took my first quiz and made a 100. I am awful at Algebra, but this seems much different and the instructor seems great and LOTS of resources to understand the material. I did attempt to start the Algebra course with UTA and dropped that within the first day, I knew that it was way over my head. Good Luck and God Speed!

I hate to burst your bubble, but the transition into prof. nursing course is one of the easiest I have taken at UTA. I've learned to pick out which readings are necessary to pass the quizzes and complete the assignments. If you read every single thing they want you to, you will be extremely overwhelmed. Use your grading rubrics as a guide. The coach's don't stray from them and if you addressed each section in the rubric throughly than you will make A's. Doubling up on the nursing courses is doable, but it is a challenge because the courses move so quick. Take holistic health assessment and research ALONE! Take your history courses alone or with something easy like art appreciation or medical terminology. British lit was a little rough for me too, but I took it alone. Any of the other nursing courses could easily be taken together with some detail to time management. Good Luck! You can do it!

ladyd123, I am actually taking both of these classes too. The geriatric class is not bad, but the vulnerable population class is just absolutely ridiculous. Do they actually think we read all of this crap! Do think they will actually call the person we interview in the geri class?

Prof A was super easy and I actually enjoyed it. Pulled an A with a math class. Good Luck

This class has got to be the biggest waste of time. Not hard at all, just super time consuming, practically retyping the books assessments in your own words and findings. I do this everyday at work assessing patients. This class should be for students that do not already have an RN license. I am just totally fed up with this class and the coach's that have nothing substantial to say and give little to no feedback on anything. I really hope the rest of these courses are not such a waste of time. Thanks for letting me vent.

Nope, I tried to access the course too, Thursday am. Nothing yet.

http://academicpartnerships.uta.edu/degree-programs/nursing/1189/master-of-science-in-nursing-family-nurse-practitioner#About-Program It is under " Online Programs" ? Maybe someone made a mistake?

So I checked the academic partnership website and they now have an FNP online program through UTA. I was so excited that I now have the option to complete a MSN/FNP at UTA. Has anyone else considered this? The price tag was a little over $33,000 for 24 months. Sounds steep but can't imagine there isn't any graduate grants available.

Thank you so much for the information!

Are the books all that necessary for this course, I am really tired of buying expensive books that I never open?

I am a 2008 Excelsior Graduate with my ASN and have about 6 months left in the program with UTA's RN-BSN. It will have taken me almost 2 years exactly to finish my BSN. They did accept all of my credits from Excelsior, but Excelsior is a little light on the pre-reqs, so I spent the first year just taking pre-reqs. Hope this helps and good luck. So far the nursing professors are great, I can't say the same about many of the general pre-req professors.

P.S. I start NURS 3645 on the 23rd too!

If you are in the RN-BSN program through the academic partnership, there are NO clinicals at all. I too have had frustration with my academic advisor. She can not even register me correctly at times. I had a friend who completed the RN-BSN and she stated the only time she spent any time in a hospital for school was to follow around her managment for a few hours in order to complete a paper in her Managment class. Hope this helps.

Does this class require proctored exams like College Algebra course.

I dropped this class like a bad habit have thought about leaving UTA altogether because of this class. I will keep with UTA but will be looking for another math class at another university. Shame on you UTA for this awful class being required. They really should just do away with the Algebra requirement. I have been a nurse for 10 years and have never used Algebra other than drug calculations.

I can't believe that on top of the $500 plus course, $175 text books, I have to pay to have my test and final exam proctored and have to go out and buy a web cam! I really wish this would have been passed on to me as I would have not even enrolled in UTA. I suck at math and was not looking to spend this awful amount of money to hopefully pass Algebra. I'm hoping the video lectures show me step by step how to work out the problems or I am in trouble. Might have to transfer to Texas Tech, they don't even require Algebra.

Well I just finished POLS 2311, it was very doable and I took it with Legacy of the Family. You really just had to listen to lectures, take weekly quizzes, weekly discussions and a final. I kept a B the whole way through and bombed the final and ended with a C. I'm about to take College Algebra but with no other class, because I heard it is very difficult.

The movie analysis seems like I could enter a ton of information! Did you just hit the basics in each section? How detailed of a geno and eco map did they want? It all seems so vague to me.

Thanks NICUrn718, I just ordered my books from Campus Book rentals. Seems like a good deal. I hope this class is not too time consuming, but here goes nothing.

Congratulations! I will be finish up my last two pre-reqs next semester for RN-BSN. I have stats and algebra to take. I am horrible at Algebra and don't want this to stop me! Any pointers that could help me out?