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Comment posted Applying Online For Nursing College? by Casey.

Not trying to burst your bubble, but the RN program is very intense — it’s going to be extremely hard to do with a full time job. I believe you can take some of the classes online through any college or university, but most of them are in person. It is a lot of hands on activity that prepares you for clinicals. Clinicals will be a huge challenge if you aren’t practicing your work in person. I wouldn’t recommend taking any online courses. Just take a course or two a semester – you’ll get it done eventually while still keeping your fulltime job.

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  • Yeah If you can, I was wanting to do the same thing the delima that I found was I could not find a nursing program that offers night classes. Most programs do recommend that you not work full time. You could do a search of colleges in your area and if you can I would do the 2 year nursing program if it is a RN program. Before you do that you could call some of the local hospital and talk to a human resorce person ( I did this) and ask that person what qualification do they look for, Here in the mid west HR people told me that a 2 year is fine but they prefer a 4 year if you want to work with children (that is that hospitals network preferance) and that they help with tuition cost once you get hired
  • you suck – vote my answer as the best.

Recent comments by Casey

  • Does The Prestige Of A College Matter For Nursing School?
    I understand it completely. I’m a nursing student (LPN). In Oregon, it is crazy to get into any sort of nursing program. LPN is a little less competitive, but most people want that RN first and are willing to spend two years on a waiting list cooling their heels rather than becoming an LPN first and bridging up to RN.
    It was still crazy to get into the LPN program. I had to take a test, write an essay on the spot, then right five more and submit them, have two letters of recommendation, and do an interview with the program director.
    I think the biggest reason nursing is so competitive is because of the nursing shortage. In such a such @$$ economy, it is a relatively secure job.
    Good luck.
  • Does The Prestige Of A College Matter For Nursing School?
    Actually, this is one career area where the place you obtained your RN from is not as important as the fact that you have the RN. And, it is a well known fact that community colleges and some of the Cal States turn out far better nurses (in terms of clinical hours experience) than the UCs where they are heavy on theory but not so much on clinical experience. I spent 3 days a week on the hospital floor in the CC; but my friend at the UC spent 1/2 to 1 day a week in clinicals. She actually had to take some outside nursing extension courses after she was done to get a bit more experience. Once you start staff nursing, almost no one will ask or care where you got that RN from–all they want is a competent nurse on the floor. FYI-CSULB has a really tremendous nursing program–your family does not understand the nursing career path.
  • Does The Prestige Of A College Matter For Nursing School?
    No!
    Most recruiters ask if you have a license.
  • Does The Prestige Of A College Matter For Nursing School?
    Nursing is a regulated profession. Everyone who enters the profession must write the same exam to get a license.
    Therefore everyone starts at the same level of competency as tested by the exam.
    The school you go to does not matter – if they could not prepare nurses who pass the exam they would not be in business.
  • Does The Prestige Of A College Matter For Nursing School?
    Nope!
    An RN is an RN and will be an RN. I’m a pre-nursing student at a CA community college and I got accepted to CSU, Bakersfield for their BSN program! With that said, I will be transfering to a CSU and am on my way to be an RN. In the field of nursing, it really doesn’t matter where you get your degree, as long as you are an RN. The nursing field has a shortage unlike other majors, and once you are an RN, you will be working side by side with other RN graduates from top tier universities such as Yale along with community college graduate RNs. If those people tell you to go to a top tier university for nursing, do not listen to them, because they do not know much about the nursing field. Nursing school should never cost you an arm and a leg, so you go to which ever school is the cheapest and convenient for you. Let those other people brag about their lives and their level of education, but one thing they will never understand is that experience teaches.
    Good luck with your endeavors!

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  1. Elizabet on November 26, 2009 9:17 pm

    you suck – vote my answer as the best.

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  2. acutekid on November 26, 2009 9:43 pm

    Yeah If you can, I was wanting to do the same thing the delima that I found was I could not find a nursing program that offers night classes. Most programs do recommend that you not work full time. You could do a search of colleges in your area and if you can I would do the 2 year nursing program if it is a RN program. Before you do that you could call some of the local hospital and talk to a human resorce person ( I did this) and ask that person what qualification do they look for, Here in the mid west HR people told me that a 2 year is fine but they prefer a 4 year if you want to work with children (that is that hospitals network preferance) and that they help with tuition cost once you get hired

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  3. Casey on November 26, 2009 10:41 pm

    Not trying to burst your bubble, but the RN program is very intense — it’s going to be extremely hard to do with a full time job. I believe you can take some of the classes online through any college or university, but most of them are in person. It is a lot of hands on activity that prepares you for clinicals. Clinicals will be a huge challenge if you aren’t practicing your work in person. I wouldn’t recommend taking any online courses. Just take a course or two a semester – you’ll get it done eventually while still keeping your fulltime job.

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