[nakida20]

I am looking for an online MSN/FNP online program, anyone have any ideas?

[athena55]

Hey Nakida:
Why don't you check out this website: www.Petersons.com
What state are you currently residing in? At the Petersons website you just plug in the information and it will come up with - hopefully, multiple listings of distance programs for you. Some FNP programs may require some type of on site residency from a few days to a few weeks, so keep that in mind (a wee bit of friendly advice, smile)
Good Luck,
athena

[CardioTrans]

UAB in Alabama has a completely online MSN/FNP program. You arrange your clinicals where you live. The preceptor just has to make a contract with the school. Heres you a web site:

www.uab.edu

[yellow finch]

Indiana State University offers a fully online program where you do your clinicals in your area. I just completed my first semester there and am VERY happy with it so far. Challenging without being impossible and the instructors are amazing. To boot, being an online student I pay instate tuition!

http://www.indstate.edu/distance/nursing.html

[happyrn1]

Are these On-line FNP programs accredited? Can you work in California when you go through these programs? I am very new at researching all of this. Thanks!

[gapeach427]

Try www.bsu.edu They have online Family NP and Adult NP programs.

[Dixiecup]

Originally Posted by nakida20

I am looking for an online MSN/FNP online program, anyone have any ideas?

I am going to SLU in St. Louis Mo. It's the greatest thing since sliced bread. The instructors are so user friendly and bend over backwards to make sure you understand everything and pass your class. I work full time 40 hours a week and don't have any problems having time to fit it in and get my schoolwork done.

[DC2RN]

I have never taken an online class and I have questions about the format. Do you actually download audio lectures, or do you read the lectures and do the assigned reading? Do you ask questions by email or phone? Do your courses follow the traditional semester, or do you learn at your own pace? Do you take your tests at home or at computerized testing centers, like the NCLEX? Any information would be very helpful and much appreciated.

[Selke]

Frontier has a distance FNP program.

[athena55]

Hello DC2RN:
I think I can speak for many of us who are "pros" at distance type education. In the very beginning, there were Bulletin Boards (BB) and that was were you did all your communication between student and instructor/Professor (well, at least in my experience)
Programs are asynchronous or synchronous. I would think that nowadays most, if not all, of the various distance programs are asynchronous.
When I was enrolled in California State University, Dominguez Hills BSN program, we would receive our syllabus, required and recommended readings, the homework that was required via the US Post Office. That particular program (in the mid-90s) had the requirement that you have cable television as you had to set your VCR to record at 0400 hours when your particular course was broadcast! Yikes! Some college distance programs require you to purchase previously recorded videotapes and submit either typed papers via US Postal Service or submit them via electronic mail.
Nowadays I would like to think the majority of course work is submitted via Email and many of the programs have their own websites dedicated to that particular course of study (i.e., FNP, BSN) where you can access or contact your professor, submit your homework, download your study guides, required readings etc.
As I stated above (I believe I did, sometimes I get on a roll, sigh...)
you submit your homework either directly on-line or mail it in.
I would also think that the majority of programs adhere to a regular semester meaning you have deadlines as to when you submit your homework, group work, term papers, exams. Some programs allow you to take your exam on line, others might mail you the exam with return envelope included.
As for learning at your own pace maybe some of our Forum Readers could answer that one. Eons ago, when the program was called "University Without Walls" you were given a syllabus and I think you did your readings, wrote your papers and submitted them when you were ready(?) I am sure there was some kind of deadline. I remember one of our Respiratory Techs was talking about doing that type of program, but I was young and thought that was "much too much work". Silly me!
Here is a website where you can research the various different distance type programs. Just plug in what you are looking for:
www.Petersons.com Also, check this website out submitted by Tweety on the Distance Learning/Independent Study Forum:
www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/ele...es/nur_reg.htm
Hey, good luck in which ever program you choose (or don't, smile)
I LOVE distance education/learning. I am actually looking into transferring my credits towards my doctorate in anthropology from on site to a distance Ph.D program (well, after I finish my ANP and I eventually [many moons from now] separate from the Army. That will give me something to do on my off duty days, hahaha)
Best of Luck to you. Have a safe, dry Labor Day Holiday
Respectfully,
athena