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I never took two courses at the same time, so it is a little difficult for me to say. I have also worked throughout the program so never simply had school by itself. If you are not working I think you could do both, but you will still be very busy. Some people have posted that they worked and took two courses at a time, but to me that would just be way too crazy. Maybe others will chime in here share their experiences with these courses also.

It would be helpful to know which nursing classes you have already taken and what you thought about the workloads of those classes for comparison. When I took each of the classes you mentioned I worked three 10 hour shifts per week, but most students work 36 to 40 hours per week and are still able to get their school work done. If you are not working, you will have plenty of time for either class. I thought that overall Holistic Health Assessment (HHA) was easier than Research, but that HHA was in some ways more time-consuming and tedious. Research was a bit more stressful in large part because the course material was somewhat new to me. Research isn't so much about nursing (except to the extent that it pertains to evidenced-based practice) as it is about research. We used nursing topics to study research, but the course is still mainly about research. With Research you really have to get into the material more and really understand it to do well. We've all studied assessment before. HHA just goes into somewhat more detail than what we've learned previously.

In my opinion, the work cooperative elective was the easiest class in the program. You have to develop three goals (one goal for each of the following: teamwork, professionalism, and evidence-based practice) applicable to your work setting. Then after every shift you work you have to journal about your experiences related to working toward those goals. They give you a format for the journaling, and you have to turn it in each week. You have to journal for a minimum of 120 work hours, but even if you reach 120 hours in week three you still have to continue to journal about each shift until the end of the course. There were usually two discussion boards a week, and for some of them you have to cite an appropriate source or two. Toward the end of the class in week four or five you have to write a paper about your goals, experiences, etc. After about week two, the journaling got a little old, but you just have to do it. What made it so easy was that it is pass/fail. You don't have to worry about whether you make an A, B, or C because all you have to do is pass.

For Vulnerable Populations week one is busy, week two is ridiculously busy (worst week for any course in the program in my opinion), week three is busy, weeks four and five are very easy.

For Health Assessment did you take N3425 or N3315? If you took N3425 Health Assessment you can take N4585 Capstone, which has a start date in January. If you took N3315 Health Assessment then you have to take N4685 which starts much later in the semester. I'm assuming you took N3315 Health Assessment.

Thank you. Your comments are very helpful.

Danilu14, I will be taking Research later this fall. Were there any particular weeks in the Research course where the work was somewhat heavier than the others? Is the research paper due at the end of the fifth week or at some other time? Thank you for your tips above but would also appreciate it if you would share your thoughts regarding my additional questions.

Then you will do fine.

If you previously completed the Intro course when it was NURS 3645 (i.e. when it was a 10 week course taught over an eleven week time period) then you do not need to take N3375 Health Policy and Legal Aspects of Professional Nursing. This new N3375 is for students who take the new N3345 Intro course, which is only five weeks long. This new N3375 replaces the old second half of the Intro course. At least that is my understanding based on an email distributed when the new course numberings came out in April of this year.

I was provisionally accepted earlier this year, and UTA did not finish reviewing my transcripts until sometime during the last half of NURS 3645 (intro course). Once I completed that intro nursing course I was granted full acceptance. What makes you think you need to take Texas history? I think you may need to take Texas government, but I think the history requirement is 6 hours of American History.

Get the book that UTA recommends called "APA the Easy Way" and I would also recommend that you also go ahead and get the 6th edition of the "APA Style Manual". It provides quite a bit more detail than the the first book I mentioned. Purdue Owl is a good website for additional help: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ When all else fails, you can also check the APA website for help: APA Style Basic APA style is not that hard once you've written a paper or two. Every once in a while there will be a document that you may want to cite where the APA guidelines are a bit vague.