RN to BSN online

Welcome! I was accepted to SPC and have some financial regrets for not going there. But I didn't think working nights I could to the extras like finding a family and going to clinics and what not. SPC is indeed an excellent school with an excellent local reputation. Now that I'm working day shift, I see it's perfectly doable and the best bargain for a BSN I've ever heard of.

Tweety - I am thinking about spc online - is there a lot of clinical and can it be done in my area? (I'm actually about 2 hours north of Tampa and could go there if I really had to... $78 credit hour is just too good to pass up since my employer has a dismal $900 year reimbursement) I'm waiting (impatiently) for someone from spc to call me and give me some info.

gail

Does anyone have recommendations for online RN-BSN programs without a clinical component? I am really against working as an RN 36 hours a week, and then having to go be in clinicals somewhere. It seems a little redundant.

The 2 I'm looking into are :
FHCHS nursing Online Degree - Home

and

Celtic Scholar - Distance Learning

both have none or very little clinical and are NLNAC recognised.

NLN approved programs have to have a "clinical" component. But it's not what you think. In my program we get clinical hours during the health assessment course (another NLN requirement) we were given clinical hours for doing a head to toe assessment (very in-depth, meaning looking inside the eyes, ears, doing cranial nerve checks, relflexes, etc.) and we had to follow an MD or ARNP for 8 hours. During leadership we have to spend a day with a manager and we get "clinical" time for that, during Community Health we had to teach two different populations a subject (I taught my coworkers about impaired nurses, and a group of men in my home about prostate/men's health). Stuff like that. There is no going to hospitals and taking patients, because after all, we are RNs.

I will have to look further into your program. With Indiana State, you have to have documented clinical time with a preceptor who has at least a BSN, and you have to be assessing patients, doing checklists, and submit videos of you doing a health assessment, plus writeups for an adult assessment and a peds assessment. That's too much clinical for me. Thanks for the info!