UTA Online BSN questions

OrganizedChaos, LVN · Sep 2, 2015

Never mind, they don't have clinical locations near me. Boo.

heddi · Oct 3, 2015

If you are talking about the Online only RN-BSN through Academic partnership, there are no clinical requirements. Everything is online. The nursing leadership class has you shadow a nurse leader at your job, and one of the electives (Work Experience or something) has you journal about your job and answer some questions.

I am graduating in December. I worked full-time throughout the program, partly as a 7p-7a Trauma ER RN and then the other half as a M-F 8a-5pm Case Manager. My husband is also in the program and works 2 jobs for a total of about 50 hours a week.

It is very doable program while working. You can take as many or as few classes as you want. It is not a traditional quarter or semester system. Some of the classes are 5 weeks, some 7, and some 10. There were semesters when I was able to finish 3 or 4 classes in a Semester, taking 3 5-week back to back classes and one 7 week that overlapped. There were other terms where I only took one class at a time (that was most of the time).

I started with Statistics at an outside school in Jan 2013 and took all the nursing, History 1 & 2, Gov't 1 & 2, 1 lit and 1 English and my pre-req's. I took Summer 2014 off and didn't bust my hind end and I will be taking Capstone in November and graduate in December.

The good thing is that while it's not self-paced, it is a doable program. The requirements aren't stringent. I'm not gonna say it's a Diploma Mill, but it's not Johns Hopkins either. It's affordable, and it gets you a BSN.

SCcountrygirlRN · Oct 4, 2015

If you are talking about the Online only RN-BSN through Academic partnership, there are no clinical requirements. Everything is online. The nursing leadership class has you shadow a nurse leader at your job, and one of the electives (Work Experience or something) has you journal about your job and answer some questions.
I am graduating in December. I worked full-time throughout the program, partly as a 7p-7a Trauma ER RN and then the other half as a M-F 8a-5pm Case Manager. My husband is also in the program and works 2 jobs for a total of about 50 hours a week.
It is very doable program while working. You can take as many or as few classes as you want. It is not a traditional quarter or semester system. Some of the classes are 5 weeks, some 7, and some 10. There were semesters when I was able to finish 3 or 4 classes in a Semester, taking 3 5-week back to back classes and one 7 week that overlapped. There were other terms where I only took one class at a time (that was most of the time).
I started with Statistics at an outside school in Jan 2013 and took all the nursing, History 1 & 2, Gov't 1 & 2, 1 lit and 1 English and my pre-req's. I took Summer 2014 off and didn't bust my hind end and I will be taking Capstone in November and graduate in December.
The good thing is that while it's not self-paced, it is a doable program. The requirements aren't stringent. I'm not gonna say it's a Diploma Mill, but it's not Johns Hopkins either. It's affordable, and it gets you a BSN.

Heidi- I am enrolled to take history 1 next,I am a little nervous from reading over posts on here. Was wondering if you could tell me what to expect? I'm taking it alone because of all the horror stories I've heard! Congrats on completing the program! December will be here before you know it! I have history 1 & 2, art, technical writing and literature left to take prior to starting my nursing classes. I've already completed govt 1 & 2, stats, English and medical term. I'm just ready for it all to be over! Lol. Will be so worth it in the end!

heddi · Oct 4, 2015

Heidi- I am enrolled to take history 1 next,I am a little nervous from reading over posts on here. Was wondering if you could tell me what to expect? I'm taking it alone because of all the horror stories I've heard! Congrats on completing the program! December will be here before you know it! I have history 1 & 2, art, technical writing and literature left to take prior to starting my nursing classes. I've already completed govt 1 & 2, stats, English and medical term. I'm just ready for it all to be over! Lol. Will be so worth it in the end!

Here's the thing about history - it's not that it's incredibly hard, but it's laid out in the most stupid way ever and there are a million different folders, and each folder has a folder, and each subfolder has a folder...so your first week you're just clicking around trying to find what you need.

You have 1 unit every 2 weeks, and each unit covers 3-4 topics. Each topic has a lecture, usually an audio lecture, sometimes just powerpoint slides. There are primary documents they want you to read for each topic in addition to the textbook readings.

Each unit has a 3 part discussion board:

1) your individual post

2) responding to 3 of your classmates

3) group post

Group posts are a PITA. My advice - volunteer to be group leader the first week. It's the easiest assignment and you get 5 points extra credit. You can only be group leader once.

Each topic has "reflections" which are short-answer questions. THIS is the tricky part that I lost points on - you have to make sure you do EACH reflection, and they can be hidden in the folders. WHen you get to the class, shoot me a message or respond here and I"ll show you how to look in LectureTools (what you use for the reflections) to see all the reflections for the unit to make sure you've completed them.

Each unit has a reaction paper, which is usually 2-3 pages double spaced on a topic.

You don't use APA or MLA for references, you use a hybrid. Pay attention to how they want you to do references.

It's not hard. It's stupid how they focus on this minutiae. The coursework itself is meh. Your coach can make the class bearable (1311) or miserable (1312)