annie_m

I would have given student three a break. As a current student I would rather make up a day of clinical because I needed to pass a course and had to have study time then to have spent a semester wasting a preceptors time because I did poorly on a test. I have been told that I do really well in the clinical setting but I have horrible scores on my test's. Its not that I don't study or know information its that I test poorly. Should #3 have known that this was not acceptable for your after having spent many days with you? Maybe but maybe not. Also he was honest with you and could have just lied with a family emergency and you would have never known the difference. As for a previous poster that stated that test schedules come out at the beginning of the semester yes they do but I had my instructor change all of our dates all semester long. It made for a very stressful semester that I have no desire to repeat. Your student likely weighed the benefit of one hours worth of clinical learning versus the 4 or 5 hours of study time and what would help him most in the semester.

I was in the online program and switched. I think that the material is covered more adequately in class and there is less work. Not to say that you learn less but for example in online assessment you take a lot of hours to make and upload videos. Those items you do in class and it takes less time. You get immediate feed back to correct things and have an instructor there with you. Besides the further you get into the program the less actual class time you have. But in answer to OP you can apply for a post masters certificate.

To me its not unreasonable. You could get a name your price hotel and do 2 clinics days per week, staying over night there. I live in Wichita falls and drive to Arlington which is 2 to 2.5 hours just for class.

They only place for psychiatric clinicals for psych management.

I would recommend the on campus program just not the online portion. The on campus program is really good. I feel like I have learned so much more this semester going to class.

After having a hard time trying to pass assessment I switched to the on campus option. When I did this and had to retake the same class due to dropping it the first time I did notice that tuition for that class was $1000 more. It was a 4 hour class.

I am as well. If they can get blackboard to work. I got an email that it was not working....again. They need to use a system that works.

You can either do two classes or one at a time. I am only doing one at a time as I work full time and have 3 kids. The classes continue to be either 5 or 10 week courses. They do not cut you any slack on the amount of information that you must know. If you look on the uta website for the college of nursing you should be able to look up most of the syllabus online. I just finished pharmacology and would have been hard pressed to do that class with another. You had to read a minimum of 90 pages a week but most times it was 150. You also had two discussion board post a week, with sources, a case study or a Rx module to complete. And there was either a weekly quiz or major test.

I know that the on campus family and psych program require multiple visits per class. I have a friend in the on campus psych program and she is there at least every other week. At this time they only have the family as an online program.

I am currently in the online FNP program at UTA and will only have one clinical check off day in the entire program.

I obtained my BSN with UTA as well and this program is much more time intensive. A couple of the classes you could take together but I would definately not take patho with anything else. If you want to have an idea of what some of the class load looks like pm me your email and I will send you the syllabus for pharm that I just completed. And the camera is because you have to be recorded for your exams.

I thought that pharm was much easier and my grade reflected it by about 10 points. But I will say that the book was a lot better. Are you in assessment next Texasrn53?

Oh you will also need a web camera and a desj top tripod to take your test with. They recommend the logitech c920. It has to be a 1080p camera but not the logitech one.

I thought the class was horrible. While I know that the content is hard, as it should be, I felt that he did little to no guidance. I asked for help and got told "its graduate school, its supposed to be hard." I will say that he curves the test and the quizes. I had 30 points added to each test that I took. I do believe that around 1/3 of the class dropped. I think that a lot of the problem is the book that he picked. It is horrible and is not reader friendly. He also doesn't lecture. He links you tube videos from other people. All of this test/quizes are based on the cellular level. There is a facebook group that is private if you search for UTA.

UTA has both an online and an on campus program for the fnp program. The online does have one clinical day required after a certain point in the program. It is also completed throught the academic partnership program that your BSN is currently completed through. The only thing that I am not sure on is whether or not they have opened the program up to residents from states other than texas.