LPN to RN Online

[thedebs1107]

Hi,

does anyone have any real experience with an online LPN to RN program?

I know College Network pushes their program, but what about clinicals? and why not just take the course straight from Indiana Univ. or Regents,NY?

Thanks

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

The College Network is not an LPN-to-RN program. The College Network is nothing more than a publishing company engaged in the business of selling study materials that eventually lead to a nursing degree from either Excelsior College (formerly known as Regents) or ISU. Therefore, Excelsior College or ISU are one of the 2 schools you're really dealing with.

Most people are able to earn their LPN-to-RN bridge program nursing degree from Excelsior College or ISU without ever going through expensive publishing companies such as the College Network and RUE. In addition, people have attempted to get out of the College Network's contract, and all were unsuccessful.

Buyer beware. . .

[caliotter3]

Any and all classes can be taken directly from either of these institutions. As far as clinicals are concerned, ISU requires clinical placements that are arranged where the student lives. Excelsior requires a capstone clinical performance examination over a weekend at one of several testing sites. People get put off by the Excelsior program because of the lack of clinical traning, but they forget the basic premise that Excelsior is an examination program not a teaching program. People who go through Exelsior are paying to have their clinical and classroom capabilities proven through tests. They are not paying for nursing school instruction.