100% Online RN-BSN

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Specializes in Med Surg, ER, OR.

I have been looking for schools that are 100% online as far as lecture, clinical, discussion, etc go, but am coming up short on my findings. To all of you fellow Allnurses.com members, are you aware of any schools that are completely done online? Or, if you are a student/graduate from one, I would LOVE to talk with you.

Thanks!

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Specializes in Neonatal ICU (Cardiothoracic).

I may be proven wrong.... but I'm almost positive that no program exists that can be completed without facility clinical time.

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Specializes in Med Surg, ER, OR.

I saw one (Chamberlain.edu), and talked with their admissions advisor about this, but do you think it sounds too good to be true?

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University of Illinois at Chicago. If you have your Associate you can take online classes for BSN. Not sure how it works with a clinical time.

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You might check Grand Canyon Unversity and University of Phoenix.

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Specializes in Public Health.

I don't know of any schools that are 100% completely online. I'm looking to start Penn State's online RN-to-BSN program, but even then I have to do clinicals in a hospital up near where I live.

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Specializes in Tele.

I too was looking for an online RN-BSN program. and I found St petersburg college in tampa, FL

they wrote to me that it is for students all over the state.

I was thinking of going to a local private university part-time perhaps that will be a better option for me.

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Specializes in OB.

How would you do clinicals "online"?

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Specializes in RN- Med/surg.

How could you expect to do no clinical time? Have you read on here how timid and worried new nurses are who HAVE had clinical time?

I was lucky/blessed. I went to University of South Dakota..and it was a completely online ADN program BUT- with local clinicals. It was a program set up for Good Samaritan employees though. We had great clinicals..and online/satellite classes. We were told there were no completely online nursing schools. You legally HAVE to have clinical time.

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Specializes in Med Surg, ER, OR.
We were told there were no completely online nursing schools. You legally HAVE to have clinical time.

Thats what I thought too, but was just looking for info out there. The only school I have found that is 100% online is Chamberlain College of Nursing (www.chamberlain.edu). The admission counselor told me, "We feel there is no need for additional clinical time on top of what you are currently working. As a nurse, who are already getting lots of clinical time, and have already proven yourself to your managers/admin that you are a competent RN. Trying to balance school, family, and career is hard enough without trying to throw clinicals in on top of that."

Just trying to get info on many programs out there. Not set on any one program right now. Thanks for all the replies, and I look forward to hearing what any else has to offer.

Thanks!

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Specializes in LTC/hospital, home health (VNA).

McKnis - You may want to check out the distance education forum under the students tab. There is numerous discussions on this. Basically there is a component of clinicals in the online programs - such as presentations, head-to-toe assessments either taped or performed in front of a NP, or putting in hours at a community health facility, etc - each program is different but the "clinicals" are minimal as you have put in those hours when receiving you associates - that is the basic understanding anyway. Good luck to you.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Here's an ongoing thread in the Distance Learning Forum: https://allnurses.com/forums/f125/rn-bsn-online-105380.html

NLN approved RN to BSN programs require clinical time. online programs accomplish this in many ways. I went to Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences, which is 100% online and NLN approved. Our clinical hours in community health involved two teaching projects given to two different "populations" such as I did a brief inservice on impaired nurses to my coworkers in the breakroom (had to send in pictures and write a paper), and taught friends in my home about men's health issures. In assessment class I had to do an indepth head to toe assessment on a volunteer (a friend of mine, but it could have been a family member) and be checked off by another person, as well as follow an NP or MD for 8 hours, leadership clinical hours were given for interviewing two nurse administrators and writing a paper, in pharmacology we had to present to our coworkers a "drug of the week" for five weeks and teach them about it.

Getting a BSN isn't easy but the "clinicals" were relatively painless.

Diffferent schools do their online clinicals differently.

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