Looking for the right program for me

mrsboots87 · Oct 2, 2013

I don't know from personal experience, only what I've heard, but online nursing classes are not the way to go unless there is absolutely no other option for you. I start my program next semester, and Ive been advised and read on her 100X over, that the classes are very hard. Students record lectures, spend extra time on campus in review classes and using free lab time to practice skills. You can ask in depth questions to clarify subjects. And that is on top of the huge amount of reading and practive testing. In an online course (which ive taken quite a few) you can only email the instructor with concerns and hope they grasp what you are asking and explain. This can sometimes take a day or 2 turn around, so if you need immediate help there wouldn't be any. If you are a great independent learner, then maybe online classes would be good, its just not the ideal path to take. And also consider that a good program will have both skills lab days and clinical days. So your lectures will be online, but the day you spend at the campus will be for skills lab, and you will likely have another day or 2 of clinical placement. Just keep all this in mind when you are applying to schools. GL

CDEWannaBe · Oct 2, 2013

I work at a community college that experimented with having a part-time ADN program. But they stopped it because there was no part-time way to do the clinicals. I'd be really suspicious of a program that's one day a week.