EDUKAN ONLINE COURSE, Science Pre-Requisites, advice help!! ayuadame!

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Hey all,

After 5 years out of college, and liberal arts degree later....I am looking for prerequisites for nursing! YAY! As I work FT, I will need to take courses online. Unfortunately, University of Phoenix is waaay too expensive. And in California online labs are nonexistent!!! I hear a lot of buzz about EDUkan, Bartoncollege.org, NMJC ( New mexico junior college i believe??)

Anyone care to share their experiences with these programs, I guess how difficult they are, price range, proctored exams, labs etc... I will be taking an intense load of courses from now until December because I want to apply to programs ASAP. So, any advice on online courses would be great! Am I crazy for wanting to take anatomy and physiology (a and p), microbiology, chemistry, ONLINE all in the next few months!!???

HELP ME OUT ! :-)

Thank you in advance if you even read this post! hahaha

Anyone care to share....

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Specializes in mental health / psychiatic nursing.

Where ever you go make sure the school is accredited otherwise the credits may not actually count when you apply to nursing programs. Taking labs 100% online is also iffy. Some schools are OK with it others are not. Check the requirements of the particular programs you are interested in.

In my experience the cheapest and easiest way to take online and hybrid classes was through my local community college. Many classes were also offered weekend or evening hours only for full-time workers. I highly suggest checking out the community colleges in your area to see if this is an option for you.

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Thank you for your advice! I am only applying to a handful of schools and fortunately, they accept online courses. I was looking into online or even hybrid classes in my area. .. even weekend courses would be great! Unfortunately, California doesn't offer too many options. And if they are offered it's not until next year. And I'm wanting to get rid of those prerequisites right away. .. I feel like distance hybrid courses are more abundant of California.... Do you know of any online programs where your from? I'm mainly concerned with anatomy and physiology there are actually Chemistry programs that do fit my busy schedule!

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Have you taken a look at American Public University, they're regionally accredited and offer online science courses with labs. They're just over $1k for a 4 credit course, so not cheap but not ridiculous either. I know they have an OK reputation, but haven't attended myself. Am considering it in the future.

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Well you probably won't find a cheaper school than New Mexico Junior College! Even out of state it's only $744 per semester! However it is a very small rural town. Why are you looking at New Mexico? And "ayudame? (Spanish for help me)? New Mexico does have a few nursing programs and it is a state wide curriculum for many schools if they are part of the NMNEC New Mexico Nursing Educational Consortium. Check out: UNM, NMSU, CNM, WNMU in Silver City, Dona Ana CC, Eastern NM in Roswell. Texas Try UTEP or El Paso CC. Max tuition for UNM/NMSU/ UTEP is about $3,000 per semester last time I checked for instate tuition.

I'm alumni at: Dona Ana, NMSU, UTEP.

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All the ones you listed are great schools. All of them are accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. I checked with the school I plan to get my nursing degree and they said they will accept the credits from ANY OF those schools. They recommended NMJC because they have a Nursing program so they would most likely have a more competitive A&P. I took my A&P online (at my current college in DE) and passed with an A-. Lots of work and very very time comsuming. I dissected a cat, sheep's brain and cows eye right in my kitchen lol

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The only reason I am not taking A&PII locally is because my school does not offer it next semester. My nursing program starts in May so I must have it done by then. Also, I'm a wife, mother of 2 and work FT so online has and will always be better for me and my family. I will be attending an evening nursing program 2 days during the week and weekends!!

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Thank you for responding! not sure why i never was notified of your response. But thank you! :)

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The only reason I am not taking A&PII locally is because my school does not offer it next semester. My nursing program starts in May so I must have it done by then. Also, I'm a wife, mother of 2 and work FT so online has and will always be better for me and my family. I will be attending an evening nursing program 2 days during the week and weekends!!

And thank you for your insight! I am trying to enroll in NMJC ASAP. I am having trouble with pre reqs though :(I am willing to move to NM if i have to because I know they will at least accept their own classes lol. Meanwhile, I am also looking into taking EDUkan I really didn't want to because the price tag is a bit high. But I'm over doing all this research i just want to be done already.

Anyway, good luck to you and your nursing education. So happy that you've already taken some prerequisites and you're almost there.

if only i could get there! lol

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Well you probably won't find a cheaper school than New Mexico Junior College! Even out of state it's only $744 per semester! However it is a very small rural town. Why are you looking at New Mexico? And "ayudame? (Spanish for help me)? New Mexico does have a few nursing programs and it is a state wide curriculum for many schools if they are part of the NMNEC New Mexico Nursing Educational Consortium. Check out: UNM, NMSU, CNM, WNMU in Silver City, Dona Ana CC, Eastern NM in Roswell. Texas Try UTEP or El Paso CC. Max tuition for UNM/NMSU/ UTEP is about $3,000 per semester last time I checked for instate tuition.

I'm alumni at: Dona Ana, NMSU, UTEP.

Thank you for letting me know! 3k per semester would be a dream. I'm looking at BSN programs in California that will cost 3 times that amount and more per semester.

I was thinking of enrolling in Clovis college in nm they have online courses, but i hear you have to dissect stuff at home. Not sure I'm ready for keeping experiments in my refrigerator lol.

Thank you for your insight! I might be applying to NMSU as well!

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