Redundant Coursework

[CCRNDiva]

Anybody else feel like they're taking the same class over again? For instance, I'm currently enrolled in a required graduate research course. I reviewed the syllabus only to find that this is basically a carbon copy of the research course I completed last year in my RN-BSN completion program. Now, I don't know if my previous instructor was just teaching at a graduate level or what, but the content is the same, even down to the assignments (literature critiques, EBP paper etc). So far, the lectures are even covering the same material.

It is driving me crazy!! My tuition is not cheap (close to $1000/credit hour) and my time is quite valuable. I'm paying big $$ to basically repeat a course I successfully completed last year. I would think that I should be expanding my knowledge base instead of just repeating or reviewing material already learned. I just don't understand it and it is making me quite bitter.

Anybody else experiencing the same thing?

[A&Ox6, MSN, RN]

I'm actually taking two courses in a RN to BSN program, and there is a huge overlap. The classes are assessment and education, and we have had some weeks that we had similar assignments for each class. For example, we had to write education plans for week 6 for both classes. What?

[PG2018]

The OP mentioned research methods which I too took in redundancy. In fact, my PMHNP program's research class required the exact same book that my BSN program's research class required. Of course, we had to take a second class dealing with research application as well, and I wish I could've just jumped straight into that.

We also have an "advanced" community health class mirroring the BSN's community class both of which I found mind numbing. Beyond that, there's been little redundancy. My pharm and psychopharm classes were infinitely better than the pharm class I had the BSN program, and the same can be said with health assessment. They both required a pathophysiology course as well, but oddly enough the BSN patho class, although less detailed, was better. In the PMHNP program, the instructor had us read the book and take a series of multiple guess tests online. Everybody walks away from it devoid of learning, and that's sad because I really like that topic.

[PrettyWingsFNP, BSN, MSN, RN, NP]

I have seen a similar sentiment from you numerous times. Why don't you just go to medical school since you are overly concerned with the lack of advanced sciences in NP curricula? Seems like an easy fix as opposed to constantly complaining about it on the internet.

Meeep, you read my mind. Broken record. I don't think he/she is even in NP school yet.

[meeep, BSN, RN]

I am just beginning to research NP schools, as I like to have a plan in place even though I won't start my BSN program until August (just for transparency's sake), and of the 3 I have looked at, all 3 include advanced pharmacology and advanced physiology, so maybe he is just looking at the wrong schools.