Best way to earn a BSN as an RN, ADN with a non nursing bachelor?

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Hello , i will like to know where to start to find schools that could consider some credits of my non nursing bachelor of arts , plus my ASN and find the right curriculum for me for me to get my BSN in the shortest amount of time please

Thank you in advance.

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I am doing the RN to MSN at Western Governors University online where i've already gotten my BSN in the process. It's all online, you have 2 terms a year, 6mo ea. So if you buckled down you could theoritically finish in a year. It took me a little more than a year to get my bsn. It's accredited - many of my classes I had from my previous BA and ASN was accepted- psychology, history, etc When I started WGU I had to take Stats, Biochem, nutrition- I would say Stats was the most difficult but I had my own personal tutor. They have online tutors at WGU as well as course mentors that can help. Unlike a regular class, it wasn't remembering all these formulas, it was a couple but mainly you're making sure you know the concepts. If I passed it, anyone can. WGU is growing quickly as well. Other schools online would be Chamberlin (expensive), Capella (has a similar concept as WGU now of competancy based learning. Good luck in your endevor.

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I started at WGU with an ADN and a BS in another discipline and was done in 5 months, 3 days.

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I am doing the RN to MSN at Western Governors University online where i've already gotten my BSN in the process. It's all online, you have 2 terms a year, 6mo ea. So if you buckled down you could theoritically finish in a year. It took me a little more than a year to get my bsn. It's accredited - many of my classes I had from my previous BA and ASN was accepted- psychology, history, etc When I started WGU I had to take Stats, Biochem, nutrition- I would say Stats was the most difficult but I had my own personal tutor. They have online tutors at WGU as well as course mentors that can help. Unlike a regular class, it wasn't remembering all these formulas, it was a couple but mainly you're making sure you know the concepts. If I passed it, anyone can. WGU is growing quickly as well. Other schools online would be Chamberlin (expensive), Capella (has a similar concept as WGU now of competancy based learning. Good luck in your endevor.

hello, thank you for your advice, i will look into that. how many credits from your bachelor of arts was accepted please?

i have 120 credits from my bachelor of sociology and at least 70 credits from my ASN and other prereqs..... I think i should get in touch with them

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I started at WGU with an ADN and a BS in another discipline and was done in 5 months, 3 days.

wow thats impressive, i have a bachelor of arts i will check their curriculum and see what i can start taking at a community college, how many credits did you take in those 5 months please ?

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wow thats impressive, i have a bachelor of arts i will check their curriculum and see what i can start taking at a community college, how many credits did you take in those 5 months please ?

23 credits

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All total from my ba and asn, 94c transferred. Again,I had to take nutrition, sociology, biochem, and stats as prerequisites as I had never had them before.

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