MSN Education Online 2019

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Hello Nurses!,

I am looking to start working towards my MSN in nursing education this year. I am currently located in Chicago Illinois, have 3 years of nursing experience (2 years ICU, 1 year PACU), and am hoping to do my schooling online. Does anyone have any recommendations for online programs? I've looked into Chamberlain, from what I understand I could complete their program in 2 years. Is it possible to do this working full time? Has anyone completed their program or have any insights to online programs in general? I'm starting to do my research but thought to reach out to this lovely community. Any feedback would be awesome!

Thanks,

Kersten

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

I graduated from Chamberlain's nurse educator MSN program in 2017. It took me a little over two years, but I also had originally been in their NP program and went a couple of classes into NP-specific courses, then realized I had no urge to be an NP and switched to the educator track. I enjoyed the program. I worked full-time during that time as well.

I would definitely take a good look around, there are tons of programs, and some that might be less pricey. I had my GI Bill to fund my attendance, so that made it easy to not worry about price. Good luck!

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On 4/30/2019 at 11:47 AM, Pixie.RN said:

I graduated from Chamberlain's nurse educator MSN program in 2017. It took me a little over two years, but I also had originally been in their NP program and went a couple of classes into NP-specific courses, then realized I had no urge to be an NP and switched to the educator track. I enjoyed the program. I worked full-time during that time as well.

I would definitely take a good look around, there are tons of programs, and some that might be less pricey. I had my GI Bill to fund my attendance, so that made it easy to not worry about price. Good luck!

How how your experience during your classroom/clinical practicum? Did you observe a class? Did you help assist teaching a class?

I just want to have an idea of what to expect.

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
3 hours ago, Marcenas said:

How how your experience during your classroom/clinical practicum? Did you observe a class? Did you help assist teaching a class?

I just want to have an idea of what to expect.

I did things like developing a teaching toolkit for educators and presenting it, also did a lot of work with developing case-based scenarios for students (I was a trauma educator at the time). Several of my classmates were TAs for previous professors. I believe that they have just added a physical classroom requirement as well.

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Specializes in ICU,ER, Radiology, Online education.

I graduated from Chamberlain 2 years ago with my MSN/Ed. I finished in two years and my practicum was co-teaching an online BSN class with another instructor from Chamberlain. Great experience and I did not have to leave home to do it!

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