wgu starting in september

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · Jul 17, 2015

It depends on the type of program mentor that will be assigned to you.

If you receive a chicken-little program mentor who wants to control everything, you'll likely start with the course that your mentor wants you to start with.

If you receive an open-minded program mentor who allows you to control the speed, pace and direction of your studies, I'd start with C228 (community health). For a variety of reasons you'll want to get this course out of the way.

Your program mentor is a gatekeeper of sorts. Your program mentor decides whether or not to allow you to schedule your tests, accelerate coursework at a faster pace, and so forth. Some mentors are more conservative than others.

tua25227 · Jul 17, 2015

Hi commuter,

Thankyou for your replay, can you elaborate on the community health class little more and I thought we the 90 hours clinical at the end of the program.

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · Jul 17, 2015

Hi commuter,
Thankyou for your replay, can you elaborate on the community health class little more and I thought we the 90 hours clinical at the end of the program.

There are two community health courses. There's C228, which is Community Health & Population Nursing. Then there's C229, which is the community health field experience with the 90 hour practicum. It is not a clinical rotation.

You cannot start on C229 (practicum) until you've completed C228 (the didactic), which is my reason for suggesting you complete C228 as one of your first courses.

BzNursnChic · Jul 29, 2015

Thank you for asking this question as I am also starting the RN to BSN cohort Sept 1.