Online BSN or Not

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I am currently a teacher and am starting my prerequisites for nursing school in a few weeks. I just found out about an online BSN program that would allow me to keep my fulltime job and go to nursing school at the same time. Has anyone completed an online nursing degree who did not have nursing experience before? Please tell me if you think this is a good choice.

I am about to graduate from the Texas A&M online BSN program in May.

They also offer an accelerated BSN program that would allow you to graduate a semester early. Most of them are/were military medics. Many of the students in the accelerated cohort before mine are graduating with my class due to such a limited amount of time to complete coursework and clinical hours. Their grades suffered and they end up taking just as long as the traditional track.

Some of them had children but none of them worked during school.

I live in San Antonio and do my clinical rotations with a group of students in my cohort at University Hospital.

It has been a great experience for me. Out of the 26 students in our cohort, three of us will be graduating with 4.0 gpa's.

An online BSN is definitely a great option to consider if you are well organized and don't require a lot of personalized attention. Most of our class is comprised of 2nd degree student with kids and/or jobs.

Hope this helped!

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I am currently a teacher. Right now I am preparing to take the Teas exam for nursing online BSN program. I plan to keep teaching while going through the program.

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On 1/4/2018 at 10:58 PM, prettykonvinced08 said:

@bbently0717

The program I am referring to is at the University of Texas at Arlington. It is an accellarated program. I am actually going to call tomorrow to get more information. I talked to an admissions person once, but need to touch bases with him again.

But how do you study for the exams because  they are proctored. 

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