GCU Nursing Research Paper

Hello Dr. L

As someone who has fought extremely hard for this amazingly wonderful opportunity of pursuing a dream, I felt I should write to you voicing my opinion about these first 4-weeks in nursing school. I want to let you know how “ I “ feel the GCU nursing program is running, what I have heard from previous and current students.

As a person who has work at the bottom and the top of many different companies, I have learned that you do not know what people are thinking or feeling unless you ask them or they say something. The biggest and hardest thing is getting people to say something. Many individuals don’t speak up, because they don’t want to look stupid, fear repercussions or feel that what they have to say doesn’t matter. I’m going

to be a voice, speak up and say something. I’m all about open communication, and the fact that everyone has a voice.
The fact that the GCU’s nursing programs have been running for nearly 30 years, it should not be that difficult to move from semester to semester.

Obviously there are changes with the times and advancements within the profession that need addressing (i.e new books, EBP, eMAR, medical advancements etc.), but they should not affect the students very much. The expedience has been anything but cohesive. (Communication between the university-students-staff-campuses etc. is in my opinion very, very poor)

There are so many issues in my opinion; it is hard to focus on which one should be first on the priority list. But, as in nursing, which one comes first. So, let me begin with this issue first, because it’s the core of the program… EDUCATION! I feel I am not getting what I need; or what I believe WE ALL, as students should be receiving out of these early nursing courses from a university that wants to be known as one of the best educational institutions for nursing!

Personally at this point, out of the four 3-hour lectures, only one has any real interaction with the instructor. A far as the educational value of the four courses, I couldn’t get the same out of an online course. We as students are all capable of reading chapters in a book and looking at power points, but we need to be taught, understand and realize what is on those slides and the reasons they are important… “Not just asked, did you get that?”! So, to say that some of us students are frustrated, is to say the

least.
Yes, I do ask questions, I’m probably one of the more vocal people in the class, even though I am usually the quite one any other time. I have taken into consideration that some people are quite, shy, or scared. I know some students have past or present hospital experience and some things are more understandable, but there are others that have no experience and they feeling lost. I can’t ask the questions they may have, but I try to ask questions or make comments on thing as much as possible because I don’t understand.
There are many more issues that I should be addressed but I’ll just bullet point them for now…
• Loud cloud not working at times
• Wifi not work within the school at times
• Teachers not being able to access loud cloud to teach class or grade work completed
• Syllabus not matching loud cloud
• Teachers not knowing what is on the test they are teach the information for
• Information in to many different places
• Assignments that have no true meaning other than busy work

These are just some issues I feel need to be addressed on behalf of myself and some other students that are feeling the same way. Trust me, I want to learn as much as by brain can handle. I want to be the best nurse I possibly can; and be able to tell others prospective students that I got my superior education and caring skills from GCU. I don’t want to have tell them that I had to make sure my commas, semicolons and paper writing skills were more important than learning where the decimal points for my drugs calculations where or how to properly care for a patient.
My goal, if anything, is to make the transition to becoming a nursing student at GCU stress free and without complication. It should be like the nursing process… a continuous circle that makes adjustments as needed for the best outcome, it should not be like Afib where everything is crashing!