Hope that all is well. I am glad that I came across this forum as I have been researching nursing programs and schools for the past 4 months now and I am totally confused!!!
Just to give some background on myself. I have a BA in education. I taught High School History (many years ago) and have been home since as as stay at home mom of 4 beautiful little angels. I have decided to go back to school and get a second degree in Nursing (my main love). I live in Florida and I have been searching the programs from the community colleges (which have approx a 2year wait) to private colleges (some have a 20 month wait or the others are very expensive 50k). I recently came across Kaplan University and their online ADN program here in Florida. I was wondering if anyone was in this program and had some info.
The program works great for me since the classes are all online (because I still have one little one home here with me) and than I am being told that the clinicals are 2 times a week (local) for 10 hours a week.
I am just very nervous about different things that I am hearing in regards to NLN accredited, BIN accredited etc. I just want to make sure that I can do the program, complete Kaplans' requirements and than be able to sit for the NCLEX. The tuition is about 25k. It is a bit higher than the cc but I can get in and start this March 09 and be done in 14 months. This is also good for me because all of the other programs require 2 years of full time (8am-4pm) (Mon-Fri)
Sorry for going on, I just have so many questions and I want to make sure that I am making the right choice with Kaplan before I go any further. Thanks so much for any help that you can offer. Good luck and take care:)
