ADN to BSN credit by exam instead of papers?

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Is there a ADN to BSN program that I can do credit by exam? I wouldn't be opposed to writing the occasional paper but I can't handle writing a paper every week. Don't take this post as me wanting my BSN for nothing. I just test better than write a paper.

I find it pretty disrespectful calling somebody lazy because they prefer exams over writing papers. You still have to put in the time and effort the study for the exam. Most exams that are given in upper level courses aren't pure memorization they are based on critical thinking. It is far easier to cheat on a paper than on a proctored exam. Who knows who has written the paper or who has done all the research.

OrganizedChaos, unfortunately I can't help you with your question, but good luck finding the right program.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

Thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. :)

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Specializes in Med/surg, Quality & Risk.
Test-taking requires very little on the part of the student beyond rote memorization.

Try to sell that to a law school graduate.

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I do not think it is being disrespectful, more like being honest and straightforward! It is nothing more than pure laziness and looking for the easy way out. Excusing this behavior is unacceptable. You want the degree, DO THE WORK REQUIRED! OTHERWISE YOU DO NOT DESERVE IT!

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

I just don't see how test taking is considering "the easy way out". Should we have to write papers for the NCLEX instead of taking a test?

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It is disrespectful and insulting accusing somebody of being lazy without even giving an answer to their question. The questions was if there are programs that use mostly exams instead of writing papers. So if that would have been a paper then you would have failed it, because you didn't answer the question, instead you just gave an opinion how you feel about examination vs writing papers. However, that was not the question the poster ask. If you don't have an answer to somebody's question then don't post anything and especially don't insult anybody. The poster was not asking if writing papers is harder or taking an exam.

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I just don't see how test taking is considering "the easy way out". Should we have to write papers for the NCLEX instead of taking a test?

Very good point.

I think there are subject where writing papers is more adequate to test students and there are subjects where taking exams are more adequate. However, there is no easy way out either way.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

I'm not asking for the degree to be handed to me. I have all of my pre reqs for a bachelor's & my LVN license. The last couple pre reqs required a MASSIVE amount of writing. So I've done both, but obviously prefer test taking. Maybe it's just because one of my last pre reqs I had to write like, half a dozen papers. This was an undergrad course.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
It is disrespectful and insulting accusing somebody of being lazy without even giving an answer to their question. The questions was if there are programs that use mostly exams instead of writing papers. So if that would have been a paper then you would have failed it, because you didn't answer the question, instead you just gave an opinion how you feel about examination vs writing papers. However, that was not the question the poster ask. If you don't have an answer to somebody's question then don't post anything and especially don't insult anybody. The poster was not asking if writing papers is harder or taking an exam.

Good thing we aren't getting graded on message board postings here.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
Maybe it's just because one of my last pre reqs I had to write like, half a dozen papers. This was an undergrad course.

I'm surprised you consider that a lot.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

Well since it was one UNDERGRAD course with that many papers, yeah it is. I would understand that in a bachelor's program but in history, it was a lot. With that same class I had to write 5 separate papers for my final.

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Specializes in Med Surg.

Nope. I would also discourage those shake and bake online RN-BSN programs, including ones at brick and mortars.

There may be some truth to the claim that BSN prepared nurses improve patient outcomes, but I sincerely doubt these horsecrap busy-work online diploma mill BSN programs improve patient outcomes at all. I just spent an agonizing semester in an online "Leadership for RNs" class and it may have been the most horrific waste of academic time ever spent.

Next semester, whichever temporary offsite instructor they hire will "flip the switch" for the class and a bunch of drones will do the same thing - making clueless discussion posts and writing papers whose ONLY requirement is that there are 5 "Evidence Based" sources cited. Note, they don't care if the sources have anything to do with your subject or if how you use or cite them. Saying, "In this 2007 study, the second author's middle initial is R" - is perfectly fine.

And don't get me started on "Group Projects." You think you hated them in regular school? They are ten times worse online.

All that being said, it's very convenient and my employer is paying for this senseless idiocy.

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