WGU MBA-Healthcare

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Specializes in Med-Surge, Tele, PCU, CVICU, NSICU.

Finished my MSN in May!

Now looking at the MBA-healthcare program.

Anyone completed it? Any words of wisdom?

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Specializes in Outpatient/Clinic, ClinDoc.

Just graduated in June and enjoyed it. What questions did you have? I was in the 'new' program that started later last year - keep that in mind when looking for comments that the program completely changed at that time. :)

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Specializes in Med-Surge, Tele, PCU, CVICU, NSICU.

How long did it take you? Did you have management/financial background?

Any words of wisdom for getting through the classes faster? What kind of changes were made from "old" to "new"?

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Specializes in Outpatient/Clinic, ClinDoc.

It took me three months, which isn't typical, but I have several friends who made it through in under a term. No financial or management background. The old program was all paper-based (performance tasks), whereas the new program is about 1/2 papers and 1/2 objective classes (tests).

After reading through the MSN WGU groups, I personally think the MBA papers are much easier. :p Some people do have problems with the math required, but I'm a math person so I actually did better in those classes than in some of the others, such as marketing. :)

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Specializes in Med-Surge, Tele, PCU, CVICU, NSICU.

DARN...I think I would rather have papers than tests....much easier to BS ha ha

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Specializes in Outpatient/Clinic, ClinDoc.

There are plenty of papers!! :) The tests are in things you'd expect.. accounting, finance, economics, etc. :)

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Specializes in Emergency, Case Management, Informatics.

I finished under the "old" program this March. It took me 10 months from start to finish. I posted a thread about it here: https://allnurses.com/western-governors-university/finished-my-mba-978647.html

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