Rn to bsn online

I start in about two weeks!

who are you going through

I did it and graduated in 2006 I applied at SUNY Stony Brook. Was a decent program. Email for any specific questions. Or IM me on aol my screenname is rn4lyfeny

I graduated from Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences online RN to BSN program and loved it. It was hard work and aggravating at time but I stuck with it. The online experience fit in well with me working night shift at the time.

Here's an ongoing discussion in our distance learning forum: https://allnurses.com/distance-learning-nursing/rn-bsn-online-105380.html

I am about to go into my last semester of the online RN to BSN program at Middle Tennessee State University.

For an introvert like me, it is great. We still had group projects in a couple of classes that required me to meet with fellow classmates once or twice, but it could have been much worse. I had to take community health nursing and go to the clinicals that went with that, but these clinicals were much more laid back than the clinicals I remember from the LPN and ASN programs I was in.

A lot of it also depends on your instructor. Some have been better at setting up lessons and explaining expectations and such. Some have been very slow to respond to emails or don't respond at all, though if you have a general question you can usually get it answered on the class discussion board.

I would suggest participating in an online program where the school is in your area (mine is only 45 minutes away.) I haven't had to utilize the writing center or any other school resources yet, but it is good to know they are closeby where I can get some one-on-one assistance if I need it.

I won't tout online as the best way to go, but it has its benefits. It certainly allows me to indulge in being a loner and introvert for the most part. I don't have to circle the campus endlessly looking for a parking place and then having to rely on the Raiderbus or hike a mile to class. There has also been a lot of crime on campus. Don't miss that. One thing I do miss is the interaction with the instructors and hearing their real-world life experiences, which I think is a big part of learning. Of course, if there was a way to tune into their on-campus classroom lectures that would mostly solve that problem. Another thing is you are expected to participate extensively in online classroom discussions, which is very time consuming. Sometimes an instructor will be way too wordy on a syllabus and without hearing them explain it you might miss something.

I've been going to school for a long time, and find that the grades I've gotten online are pretty representative of grades I've made on campus.

Anyway, I've started to applying to NP schools and one of them is the Regents Online Degree Program (www.rodp.org ) They just started offering an online FNP program. I will be matched with a home campus (probably East Tennessee State University) and we'll see how it goes from there. I'm more interested in psychNP, but I think a family NP is a good place to start. You can't beat the price ($15,000 for the whole program). I'm also going to check into Frontier School of Midwifery (won't even have to take the GRE there) though the cost is about $10,000 more.

Online offers a lot of options. Just be sure not to get rooked into signing up with a bad program, because there are plenty out there that just want to take your money. A lot of people are leary of online programs also. This may mean you have to explain yourself quite a bit at first. It will take awhile before things turn around with this.

My intention is to use an online RN to BSN program, since there aren't any campuses local to me that offer this in person. The college is about two hours away, and I'd have to be on campus only twice per semester; at the beginning, to meet with my cohort, and at the end, for final exams. The clinical portions would be arranged at the facility I currently work at, unless I want to arrange something different, like a clinical experience with a flight transport company. Now THAT would be exciting! Currently, I'm working on a few prerequisites at my local community college; they'll transfer over to the program I'm looking at. I'm missing a few of the BSN prerequisites, since my degree is an ADN.