Online BSN with no RN?

mommy2three2 · Jul 31, 2008

anyone??

Ang_RN · Jul 31, 2008

I haven't ever seen anything like that. Believe me I looked too. All I have ever seen is RN to BSN. Sorry

HeartsOpenWide, RN · Jul 31, 2008

what I heard: Delmar College in Corpus Christi for the ADN. They also offer a BSN through Texas A&M. It is all on the same website. They set up the clinicals at a hospital in your area. I have not vistited the web site myself, but I find it hard to belive that you can get your RN on-line without even having your LVN/LPN first

puresass · Jul 31, 2008

Oklahoma University has an accel BSN in San Diego. All of the clinicals are done at Sharp hospitals. No matter what kind of program you enter, you'll have to do clinicals, so no program will ever be 100% online.

ukstudent · Jul 31, 2008

You can not become an RN without clinicals. The only RN online program that I know about is Excelsior (sp?). It is only for people with health care experience such as those already working as nurses (LPN or LVN) or paramedics. It is not recognized in all States.

You have a few choices to get your RN license. You can go to a CC and get an Associates degree, go to a traditional college and get a Bachelors or go to a traditional college that does an accelerated RN program, again a Bachelors . All will have clinicals.

There are also some programs that that take you to a MSN (Masters) with you taking the nclex along the way.

NurseCubanitaRN2b, BSN, RN · Aug 1, 2008

There is one in Wisconsin. I forgot the name of it, but you have to be a resident of that state. I believe it's the same requirement for that one in Texas that someone mentioned earlier. Good Luck

studentinnursing · Aug 1, 2008

Not online, but a lot of the universities let you scoot in if you have a bachelor's in something else. Even CRNA schools will give you advice on how to go about using your current BS towards what you are trying to achieve. Call some universities (on-campus) find out first what you need to do to get to your goal. Then start calling those same universities and see if any of them have online programs.

I happend upon one, checking out a CRNA university, then found out I can do my RN-BSN online with them!! Never in a million years would I have thought an online BSN would be acceptable to go on for CRNA.

Anyway, there are all sorts of options and ways to "get it done" out there. I just decided in June I wanted to further my medical career to hands on (RN), and the above is just a fraction of what I learned over the last month. And I don't know the half of it so to speak, but email every university admissions or advisors office with your questions and they will tell you what to do or who to contact.

NurseCubanitaRN2b, BSN, RN · Aug 1, 2008

Not online, but a lot of the universities let you scoot in if you have a bachelor's in something else. Even CRNA schools will give you advice on how to go about using your current BS towards what you are trying to achieve. Call some universities (on-campus) find out first what you need to do to get to your goal. Then start calling those same universities and see if any of them have online programs.
I happend upon one, checking out a CRNA university, then found out I can do my RN-BSN online with them!! Never in a million years would I have thought an online BSN would be acceptable to go on for CRNA.
Anyway, there are all sorts of options and ways to "get it done" out there. I just decided in June I wanted to further my medical career to hands on (RN), and the above is just a fraction of what I learned over the last month. And I don't know the half of it so to speak, but email every university admissions or advisors office with your questions and they will tell you what to do or who to contact.

As the poster stated before she's looking for an Online RN program with people who don't have a degree in nursing already. I've found plenty of RN-BSN or even RN-MSN online. I've only found one school that has an LVN-BSN online...I'm getting my LVN and will be done in March, but the LVN-BSN program wont fit me because it's going to take 3 years to complete even though I already hold a Bachelors degree in another field. I'd be better off just going through the bridge program and getting an ADN because I can go straight for a MSN in a shorter period of time if I went that route.....But what you've stated above is all true....But the poster is looking for guidance on an online RN program for people with out a degree in nursing.....Unfortunately there really aren't any because most of them require you to do clinicals in their region only.

studentinnursing · Aug 2, 2008

I have a BS in Biology and wanting to go back to get my BSN/RN then onto MSN to get my NP.
Most of the online BSN programs I have found are RN to BSN completion which since I do not have my RN I can not do.
Does anyone know of any BSN programs that are online that do not require you to already have an RN?

I must have misunderstood, sounded to me like she wanted a BSN/RN and then MSN for NP.

So if your core/general education classes are done, I assume so since you've got a BS in biology, you just need the RN "stuff" so at least you won't have prerequisites, probably some of coreq's like psychology, et cetera are done too; any BSN/RN online programs require either RN licensure or you have to be eligible to sit for the RN exam, even if you haven't taken/passed it yet.

What they tell me is BSN/RN is mostly just more in depth stuff an RN already knows (hence, RN first), but even the online require clinicals, which you do in your present job/internship (again, as RN).

And to be a nurse practitioner, you're gonna have to start at RN even though you've got your bachelor's, but most schools will give credit for all science credits 7 years old or sooner; unfortunately if they are older than that you may have to repeat just the science classes but not your English, Statistics/Algebra, just pass the placement test for those. . . . reality bites. But if you wanna be an NP, you will have to do be an RN first.

studentinnursing · Aug 2, 2008

oops, and RN will require on-campus, in-hospital clinicals.

coolvibesRN · Aug 2, 2008

I know Texas Tech HSC has a 2nd degree BSN for non RNs with a bachelor degree.I think you have to take a CNA course or something.I don't know if its completely online, but you can call and ask or go to their website

www.ttuhsc.edu/son