Online or face to face.

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Hello everyone,

I'm planning to go to nursing school within a year and I'm on my last subjects for my pre requisites and I'm doing it online.

My question is....What is the advantage of face to face or in class? Im doing all my pre requisites online and I don't have a problem with it.Or should I say, is in class better than doing online?

I'm leaning towards face to face but maybe online is better for me.

Does anyone of you became a nurse by doing it online?

Any suggestion and advice will be greatly respected and appreciated.

Thank you

Grace

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Specializes in ICU.

What are the requirements of the nursing school you plan to attend? Some will accept certain classes taken online, some won't. You won't be able to do nursing school 100% online, anyway, as you will have clinicals. Go to the website of the school you wish to attend for nursing and see what their requirements are.

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I'm live in Alberta Canada.

And I've been to the school that I want to attend and spoke to them about the requirements.

The requirements are bio 30,English 30 and Math .

I'm done the Bio and ELA and I'm currently doing my math right now.

Yes I do understand that I can't do it all online because of the clinical.

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And yes the school that I'm planning on attending offer the nursing course online.

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I think that really depends on the individual. If you have good time management skills and are actually learning & internalizing the information, online classes can be just fine. Instructors who are responsive to email and have on-campus office days would be important too. Extra important with nursing. What would make me hesitate is that I see a lot of graduates emphasize how important their classmates were to them, so I imagine some of that support would be lost. I know I didn't really have anything to do with my online prereq classmates - even the ones for my hybrid science classes where we saw each other just for labs.

My school used to have an elongated, hybrid path for nursing (online lectures, on campus labs & obviously clinicals). They are going through the ACEN accreditation process right now and when ACEN did their campus visit, the school was advised to get rid of the partially online nursing program. That track also had lower NCLEX pass rates. Sorta sucks for me because that's the path I had wanted. It means I will be starting nursing school 8 months later than I wanted to IF I am accepted, and the traditional track will make working more complicated.... But I understand it is probably in my best interest given the lower pass rates, lower interaction with classmates, and I doubt ACEN made their recommendations lightly. I am also not sure if it was the online component that contributed to its lack of success, or because it was elongated, or because of a combination of both.

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Specializes in Neuro.

Doing online vs. face to face is very dependant on your learning style & preference. Some people do horrible online & some do less well in a physical classroom. Online is working for you & as long as your nursing school accepts those online courses it's totally dependent on your preference. I prefer in class courses, but can do online as well, so I do both & it works for me.

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