Online NP schools that accept MA residents

[nightnurse279]

I am currently in school for my BSN but actively looking at NP schools to attend when I am done with my bachelors.

I am finding a lot of online schools restrict residents from Massachusetts. Anyone know of a good online school that doesn't restrict people from this state??

Any help would be great!

Thank you

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[bisson]

It's not that you cannot be approved to practice in MA - it has nothing to do with the BON, at least in New York. Essentially, the board of education has decided that an online program is practicing "in the state" if any of the learning takes place in the state. For an online NP program, doing clinicals locally constitutes some of the learning in the state, and thus requires the program to be approved by the Dept. of Education. This is costly and time consuming and some online programs just don't bother. You can practice as an NP in any state whether your program is online or not, you just can't legally do your clinicals in a state where your program isn't registered. So an MA student could do an online program if they commute to a nearby state for clinicals, but they CANNOT do clinicals in MA unless the program is registered. Once they graduate they can still register for NP license in MA.

OMG thank you so much for explaining that. I wrecked my brain trying to find out why there is a limitation on a bunch of states when the school ( say like chamberlain) is fully accredited and you meet all the requirements to sit for your licensure exam.

I'm still baffled by Georgetown, which is in DC, cannot accept students from DC for online school.