Any Good Online LVN programs?

mrsboots87 · Aug 7, 2015

You will not find a completely online LVN school. Maybe a hybrid, but not sure. You will have in classroom lab at least once a week and then in person clinical shifts. Online would only be cutting out one to two days of class time a week. Which may be all you need. Did you try google searching online LPN/LVN programs for your state?

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · Aug 7, 2015

Online LVN programs do not exist. All state boards of nursing require students in LVN programs to accrue several hundred hours of hands-on clinical practicum time, which can only be accomplished in person while touching patients.

In sum, you cannot become a nurse online.

ixchel · Aug 7, 2015

Looking for any recommendations for good online LVN programs. Or any flexiable programs.

Hi, Cmmc911! I did some reading of your prior posts to get a bit of backstory. I see you are in Cali with some paramedic experience. Is that right? Unfortunately, I think you're going to get a lot of similar answers to this as your prior posts. Pre-reqs, gen eds, and fundamentals of nursing classes might be able to be done online depending on where you go. Your nursing theory classes, though, may not be available except on campus. Nursing programs everywhere also have clinical components, which usually ends up being the least flexible part of it all. Many programs don't tell you where you will be or sometimes even what time you'll need to be present until after the semester has started.

I don't want to be a total Debbie Downer, though. I recommend actually looking up the board of nursing's website. See if you can find info there. If nothing helps on their website, call them. Honestly, they'd be a better source of info than anyone here might be anyway. They have the final say on what schools will get you licensed.

May I ask - what is making you so eager to do online? I did every class I could do online for my BSN. I had little, little kids at the time. They year they started school full time was my first year of nursing school. It worked out perfectly, so I definitely get the hope for online's flexibility. I hope you're able to find something that works for you.

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · Aug 7, 2015

I see you are in Cali with some paramedic experience. Is that right?

If the OP is in CA, s/he will need to accrue 954 hours of hands-on clinical practicum hours per state law. For my classmates and I, this entailed three 8-hour clinical shifts per week at various hospitals and facilities for a 12-month period.

Cmmc911 · Aug 7, 2015

Wow thanks for your time and response! I know there are various programs poping up all the time so im publically enquiring of any I havent heard of. Online is very convient! I think im fixed on going the LVN to RN route sinceCali doesnt offer many Paramed to RN programs. Also if i were to quite my job that would be 10 yrs down the drain, pt or on-call is not an option right now. Once I become a nurse all my years carry over with the company i work for.

Cmmc911 · Aug 7, 2015

Wow thank you!

NICUmiiki, DNP, NP · Aug 10, 2015

First, since you want to stay in Cali, you should only attend a school that they accredit. The Board of Nursing has a list of LVN schools that they will accept. They also have a list of schools they will not accept. I know this because I spent ~2 minutes looking it up.

You should research those schools and see if any offer a hybrid program. Schools not accredited by CA BON will NOT be allowed to host clinicals in Cali (and per Cali laws, you must have clinicals). So, unless you're willing to travel out of state for clinicals, an out of state school probably won't be an option for you. That seems unlikely since you're not willing to attend school IN Cali.

Additionally, CA is strict about non-Cali schools. If the school doesn't meet their standards (an out-of-state online school without clinicals probably won't, remember the school must be accredited to have clinicals in Cali), you won't get a license from them.