Back to school in the first year with Chamberlain

[KY RN]

Hi, I'm starting back to school for my BSN in August. Has anybody else graduated from an ADN program and jumped back into a BSN completion program in their first year of nursing? Also, if you attend Chamberlain, how do you like it? Do you get burned out going full-time? I only have 10 classes to take, so I'm hoping it won't be too bad.

[NC Girl BSN]

Congratulations! There are some people on the distant ed board that are doing chamberlin BSN and they all appear to like it. I just got accepted into a RN-BSN program but will not start until May 2010 so I will be a nurse 1 yr. when I start.

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

I did! Passed boards in early August 2008, started my BSN with Chamberlain in October 2008. I had said that I was going to wait until at least January 2009 to get started, but I had $3K in education funding from my employer remaining for 2008 that I didn't want to lose, so I jumped back in. I wanted to keep going while I was in "school mode," anyway. I also needed 10 classes, and I've completed 4 of them. I'm just doing one class at a time, for the most part. I doubled up on a couple of general ed classes for the first session, and I'm going to double up on a couple of the nursing classes toward the end. Overall, I love Chamberlain's BSN program so far! I'm getting ready to start my next class, Health Assessment (NR294), on Monday. I took the last 8-week session off due to vacations and whatnot, and I can't wait to get back to it!

Like NC Girl said, there are a lot of people doing Chamberlain who post on the distance learning forum: https://allnurses.com/distance-learning-nursing/

[KY RN]

Thanks for the reply. It gives me encouragement for jumping back in. I had read those other posts, that is why I considered Chamberlain. Those posts helped with my research.