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You pay by term. The term is every 6 months. Whatever classes u can complete in 6 months is what determines your total cost. The terms were around $3,000 or less when I went thru the program. Hope this helps.

Hello, your course mentor will help you arrange your courses, and they assist you with what you need to take, and when. You will speak with them regularly so that you stay on track. The Biochem and Stats courses are arranged after other classes have been completed. Biochem was challenging, but Stats was not too bad (in my opinion). But there will be plenty help from the instructors. Hope this helps.

The most important thing to remember is that an OA is an Objective Exam. It is a proctored exam that is scheduled through a proctoring service. You will hook up an approved video camera to your home computer and they will monitor you the entire time you are testing. It's nervewrecking at first, but you get used to it. The PA on the other hand is WHATEVER the school wants it to be!! The papers are tedious, the assignments are plentiful, and the tasks are endless. But if you are determined, you will annihilate it nonstop! The PA's take up so much time because if you do not complete every part of the rubric, you have to resubmit your work, bla bla bla. Hope that helps. You got this.

Thank you, and you can do it! ?

The field experience course is after you complete the previous Community Health course. In field experience you will obtain "work hours" on an approved topic and then make an appointment with the course instructor to see the best way to obtain those hours. And as far as the papers, some of my papers were short like 6 pages and some were longer, like 15+. It all depends on the content material that you're writing about. But overall, it's very doable and you got this. ?

My next step is to rest! Biochemistry took me out!? LOL. Maybe in about 2 years I will consider a MSN in education to become an instructor, but not a moment before. I hope you do well also. You can do it!

Just wanted to update my nurse family and say that I'm done with the WGU RN-BSN program! It was a long and arduous journey..... but it's over now. It took me 1 year and 3 months to complete the program because I worked full time (Monday-Friday) on 2 toxic jobs, and I had to sacrifice my weekends to make it happen. ? However, the school's course mentors and course instructors were very helpful, and I appreciated their contributions. I wish much success to everyone else's journey. ?‍?

Thank you! As I am still beating my head on the wall.? I don't remember any of these concepts!

Thank you so much RNBearColumbus, ADN ! I am overwhelmed with the amount of information and how to structure it. That makes so much sense now! ? And thanks for the reply.

Welp, I am in the WGU RN to BSN program these days. I just started the Bio Chemistry class about 2 weeks ago and I am stunned (??). Any tips??

Just hang in there and study while you wait. You will be glad you did.

? I plan to do the same.

I must say. I had mixed feelings about Excelsior before completing the program. Especially when it came time to do the CPNE at the end. It was brutal. I had no repeats the second time I took it. I failed my first go round in Texas because the 21st edition ended and the 22nd began 2 months before my test date and I had little time to re-study. I should have waited but didn't. (sigh) I had no direction and I was totally overwhelmed. So having said that, Did any of EC benefit me? YES indeed!! Today I am a new RN in a very fast paced, very busy Magnet Hospital doing Med-Surg. The work is very hard because we are always understaffed. So I learned really quickly that that doggone 20 min check can be done on real patients in 5 mins or less!!? My work load is very heavy. Yet many of the healthcare problems that I learned from my textbooks come up often. Most of which I was forced to learn on my own. So for that I'm grateful to be in the know most of the time, and to not be chewed up. (that's another story) If I had to do it all over again I still would probably do brick and mortar so that I could've been done faster. But if EC is the way you have to go, then I have to admit that they have come a long way. In recent years they are providing AOC videos, medication scenario examples and town hall meetings. It's all hard but that stuff really helps in my opinion. Especially coming out of school and being slapped in the face with 5 patients in orientation and new EHR software that you must learn. Just sayn.

Yes! It is hard. Believe it. BUT, it is doable. Excelsior will provide you with videos and town hall meetings of what they expect of you for your Medication Lab checkoffs on Friday and then the next two days with direct patient care (20 minute checks, AOCs, etc.) Remember your patient safety (including clean hands and identifying patient with each interaction). Practice those videos regularly and ask questions while you wait. Then you will pass. You got this. ?

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