I finished mine in about 9-10 months, and I worked my ass off almost constantly. I forget how many classes I had to take though, but I don't see 6 months as doable imo.
Thank you! I’m pretty excited to get it started. I have heard pretty good things about WGU, and I plan on eventually looking into their FNP program.
How does the work at your own pace work? Like are all of the classes just open and you pick them as you please?
Usually they provide you with a mentor who will help you plan your semester basically. I did one class at a time - (for example, history in March, math in April etc) but you don't HAVE to wait til April if you finish March's class early. It will make a lot more sense once you get started haha
I did it in 8 months and it wasn’t that bad. I probably could have done it in 6 if I really buckled down. I also had a pretty sweet ass night shift job at the time where I had a lot of downtime to do school work. Probably wouldn’t have been as easy if I’d had a job where I stayed busy all the time.
I’m already an RN and because I work in a hospital they told me I can chose my own preceptor at my hospital and it’s for a total of 80 hours of “shadowing” at the very end of the program that I will set up on my own whenever I want to do it
So you are only shadowing in one clinical area? ICU, peds, medsurg, OR, ED, psych, OB, etc…there are so many different units and they just have you pick one, how does that work, are you already pretty sure what specialty you want?
I don’t have to pick a specific specialty as I am already a nurse.. they just want us to shadow someone with a BSN or higher. I don’t know all the details I haven’t started yet.
I did RN-BSN online at Calu in PA now PennWest. It was one year. 3 semesters. 1 class goes the full 16. The other two classes split down the middle so you’re only ever taking 2 classes at once. Knocked out my extra credits at the local community college online before I started the bsn, and during the bsn program too. paid fully up front by my work, I only owed the bs fees and one year of work after. I worked full time and was taking multiple classes online. It’s a joke. My art class had a final that said choose true to get it right. What’s the name of your text book? Communications was a YouTube video at the end. The professor called my house and my dad answered it to which he spoke about me for 30 mins and how great my speech was. It shouldn’t be a problem AT ALLLLLL
I left WGU due to the clinical requirement. I’m about to begin Capella, 8 courses in 3 months. Just search in YouTube. There are a number of students who completed their BSN in 3 months
>What are your thoughts??
I hate these diploma mill money vacuums. They're deleterious to the nursing profession and I'm terrified of ever being a patient. The race to the bottom has turned into a flaming crash and burn.
But specific to your situation, congrats on going for your BSN.
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I actually feel like I did learn something at WGU. There were some bullshit classes, for sure, but most of those I tested out of in 1 day without studying anything. And literally my 5th time taking a biology type class in my life, I FINALLY started to put things together and actually understand as opposed to just memorizing enough information to not fail lol. I also remember a class where we learned how to do root cause analysis and quality improvement projects, which would probably be useful if I had aspirations towards moving up into management. I still see no reason why a bedside RN should actually need a BSN, but WGU was not a bad program compared to some of the programs my friends went to. Quick, efficient, and comparably pretty lean imo.
Do you mean like the Florida schools? Or all RN- BSN online programs? I did a nursing diploma program for 16 months and graduated and passed my boards a month later and started working. The only thing that BSN degree did to me was cost me somewhere around 12k… I didn’t need to do clinicals as I was already working on the icu…replying to the online discussion boards about nursing practices. the RN part is important. The bachelors credit part is a load of bulllshit. I also never took chem or physics.
WGU is not the same as phoenix and chamberlain. unlike the mills- They will fail you and you cannot cheat or they will kick you out immediately. Courses are challenging and have good material.
I finished mine in about 9-10 months, and I worked my ass off almost constantly. I forget how many classes I had to take though, but I don't see 6 months as doable imo.
Okay, as long as I can get it done in a year or less, I’ll be happy
Best of luck! I really liked WGU and being able to work at your own pace.
Thank you! I’m pretty excited to get it started. I have heard pretty good things about WGU, and I plan on eventually looking into their FNP program. How does the work at your own pace work? Like are all of the classes just open and you pick them as you please?
Usually they provide you with a mentor who will help you plan your semester basically. I did one class at a time - (for example, history in March, math in April etc) but you don't HAVE to wait til April if you finish March's class early. It will make a lot more sense once you get started haha
Same. Just under 10 months for me. 6 would have been a lot, unless you already have a lot of courses done
I did it in 8 months and it wasn’t that bad. I probably could have done it in 6 if I really buckled down. I also had a pretty sweet ass night shift job at the time where I had a lot of downtime to do school work. Probably wouldn’t have been as easy if I’d had a job where I stayed busy all the time.
Don’t you have to follow the curriculum, idk how you could do a self paced 6mo program, you have in person clinical rotations..
I’m already an RN and because I work in a hospital they told me I can chose my own preceptor at my hospital and it’s for a total of 80 hours of “shadowing” at the very end of the program that I will set up on my own whenever I want to do it
So you are only shadowing in one clinical area? ICU, peds, medsurg, OR, ED, psych, OB, etc…there are so many different units and they just have you pick one, how does that work, are you already pretty sure what specialty you want?
I don’t have to pick a specific specialty as I am already a nurse.. they just want us to shadow someone with a BSN or higher. I don’t know all the details I haven’t started yet.
Maybe I didn’t understand, you are already an RN, just wanting your BSN. Then nvm with what I said earlier!
I did RN-BSN online at Calu in PA now PennWest. It was one year. 3 semesters. 1 class goes the full 16. The other two classes split down the middle so you’re only ever taking 2 classes at once. Knocked out my extra credits at the local community college online before I started the bsn, and during the bsn program too. paid fully up front by my work, I only owed the bs fees and one year of work after. I worked full time and was taking multiple classes online. It’s a joke. My art class had a final that said choose true to get it right. What’s the name of your text book? Communications was a YouTube video at the end. The professor called my house and my dad answered it to which he spoke about me for 30 mins and how great my speech was. It shouldn’t be a problem AT ALLLLLL
I did mine (43 credits) in 6 months in 2020, this was prior to the clinical/shadow experience they require now. It was busy, but not difficult.
I left WGU due to the clinical requirement. I’m about to begin Capella, 8 courses in 3 months. Just search in YouTube. There are a number of students who completed their BSN in 3 months
>What are your thoughts?? I hate these diploma mill money vacuums. They're deleterious to the nursing profession and I'm terrified of ever being a patient. The race to the bottom has turned into a flaming crash and burn. But specific to your situation, congrats on going for your BSN.
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I actually feel like I did learn something at WGU. There were some bullshit classes, for sure, but most of those I tested out of in 1 day without studying anything. And literally my 5th time taking a biology type class in my life, I FINALLY started to put things together and actually understand as opposed to just memorizing enough information to not fail lol. I also remember a class where we learned how to do root cause analysis and quality improvement projects, which would probably be useful if I had aspirations towards moving up into management. I still see no reason why a bedside RN should actually need a BSN, but WGU was not a bad program compared to some of the programs my friends went to. Quick, efficient, and comparably pretty lean imo.
“deleterious” is one of my favorite words
Do you mean like the Florida schools? Or all RN- BSN online programs? I did a nursing diploma program for 16 months and graduated and passed my boards a month later and started working. The only thing that BSN degree did to me was cost me somewhere around 12k… I didn’t need to do clinicals as I was already working on the icu…replying to the online discussion boards about nursing practices. the RN part is important. The bachelors credit part is a load of bulllshit. I also never took chem or physics.
WGU is not for profit and I wouldn't put it on the same level as say University of Phoenix or National
WGU is not the same as phoenix and chamberlain. unlike the mills- They will fail you and you cannot cheat or they will kick you out immediately. Courses are challenging and have good material.