Part Time Nursing Programs

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Hello everyone, I live near the South Bend, IN area. This is northern Indiana and near Michigan state line. I'm wondering if there are any part time nursing programs in my area. I would be willing to travel a little bit, depending on the distance, but I have 3 young kids that I want to still spend time with. I know some of you do it with kids, jobs, and are single, but I feel like part time will be the best for my family. My husband and I have zero help with the kids, and he works a lot of hours as an engineer, so I feel like it would be better to stick with part time, if possible. I'm researching online but haven't found any part time programs in my area. Any suggestions? And if there aren't any part time programs in my area, I would like to know how Ivy Tech's nursing program is. I'm going to get all the classes I can out the way before I do nursing school, such as microbiology, chemistry, psychology, communications, advanced physiology etc. I have most of those classes out of the way anyway. I think I still need to choose one more class between chemistry, advanced physiology, and microbiology. If I have no choice but to go full time, then at least I can make it a little easier on myself by taking all the classes I can before nursing school. Any advice would be great. Thanks!

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

There are many resources to help you find out what nursing programs are in your area:

1. Your state BON will have a list of approved programs where those who graduate become eligible to register for NCLEX

2. ACEN and CCNE (the two national bodies that accredit nursing programs) offer searches on their websites.

Once you've narrowed it down to programs in your area, you can then look for information about part-time programs on their websites or contact the schools to see if a part-time program is offered. Key words to look for might include evening/weekend programs as these tend to be geared toward working students- classes are on the weekdays in the evening and clinicals take place on the weekends. The local nursing school's evening/weekend ADN program takes a year longer to complete, students attend class from 5-9pm one day a week, and have clinicals every other weekend.

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Specializes in Adult and Pediatric Vascular Access, Paramedic.

I don't think you will find a part time nursing program, but you may find one with more flexible clinical times like in the evening etc. Nursing is a lot of work so you may want to wait until your kids are older or your husband can work less.

Annie

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

Moved to the Indiana Nursing forum for more replies.

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Specializes in Pediatric Burn ICU.

I have not noticed any part time programs. You have the right idea. Get all the co-reqs out of the way before the program. I got into the program and I have the micro biology and chemistry left to take. My wife and I have 2 children and we just had to save up money so that we could have a buffer of income because I have quit working and she is the sole earner in the house. If you go to a bigger campus, I know some allow you to take program classes in summer school and this allows you to finish a semester earlier.

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Specializes in Ped ED, PICU, PEDS, M/S. SD.

Why not just take a class or 2 at a time?

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