I am enrolling in WGU and determining my start date this coming week. I will have to complete 34 units which I am hoping to do in 2 terms or less. I was curious if anyone has any insight on how they scheduled their courses and in which order they completed their courses?
I know many of you intend to or have completed the program quite quickly and I am hoping to find some pointers on the best way to complete the courses to do that. I am not worried at all about the difficult of the nursing courses. I am actually only worried about the Stats and Biochem classes. Are they difficult? Do any BSN nursing courses have pre-reqs that I need to make sure I take in the first term?
I have looked through the threads and I see people posting their plans randomly in replies but I dont see an actual topic on the matter. I think it would be very helpful for us all to share our plans with eachother. :)
Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
I am curious about the pre-req courses the RN to BSN students take. Do they make you do them through StraighterLine or do they offer them actually from the school?
I'm currently enrolled in WGU's RN-to-BSN program. I was missing three prerequisites (biochemistry, health assessment and statistics) at the time of enrollment, and was allowed to take them as corequisites alongside the actual BSN courses.
I started in May 2014. I finished biochemistry in May, health assessment in July, and I'm currently working on probability & statistics. Since May I've completed 24 credits.
Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
Hi, I'm starting Dec 1st. I'm really nervous about writing papers! It's been 20 years. How extensive are the papers you write?
The papers are not terribly extensive, but I might be biased because I love to write. I've only had write about five or six essays during the entire program.
I HIGHLY recommend anyone who is starting the program invest $30 and get PERRLA.
It will make your paper writing SO much easier, as all papers are required to be in APA format.
I second this. Wrote everything with PERRLA as does my hubby (who is in the IT program) and it made it so easy - I haven't written a paper in umm.. 25 years.. :) and was never dinged on APA.
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I'm currently enrolled in WGU's RN-to-BSN program. I was missing three prerequisites (biochemistry, health assessment and statistics) at the time of enrollment, and was allowed to take them as corequisites alongside the actual BSN courses.
I started in May 2014. I finished biochemistry in May, health assessment in July, and I'm currently working on probability & statistics. Since May I've completed 24 credits.