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Comment posted Will It Be Harder To Find A Job As A Registered Nurse If I Go To An Online College? by Marti.

I agree, you must make sure that it is accredited. You have to be licensed before you can get an RN job. The more appropriate question is whether you can get licensed after going to an online college. Check with your state boards.
I knew one gal who had a difficult time getting licensed in California after going thru The New York Regents. How will an online program validate or supervise clinical hours. You just can’t get through nursing school without clinical rotations.

Marti also commented

  • This is a unique situation that the usual online school suggestions don’t really apply to.
    Here’s why. RN is a license from your state and not a degree from a college. If your state allows you to take the RN exam with your online, traditional, hybrid, ASN, BSN, MSN degree; and you pass that exam; then you are an RN and will be hired.
    With few exceptions of some very well placed nursing schools, employers only care whether you are an RN (have a license) and whether you have an ASN, BSN, or MSN.
    In almost all cases, the source of the degree is FAR less important than where or how you got it – as long as you have an RN.
  • Yes because nurses need to get a lot of hands on training. You would probably have to take supplimentary classes at a real hospital or university to get the degree anyway. If they will give you an RN without hands on training then the school is a joke.
  • If you have a nursing license, you won’t be able to hold back the rush of places that want your body on Monday. If you want to teach, it might make a small difference, depends on if y0u make a name for yourself by presenting at seminars wherever nurses gather to learn. Trust me. My ex is a midwife with a license in Utah to practice along with an RN License. I was the coordinator for weber state’s nursing program that rotated its nurses through my
    clinical service, which is drug and alcohol treatment.
  • yes. If you insist on going to an online program, at least make sure it’s accredited. but most online programs are crap

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  • 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. lana s on November 19, 2009 12:42 am

    yes. If you insist on going to an online program, at least make sure it’s accredited. but most online programs are crap

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  2. Marti on November 19, 2009 12:57 am

    I agree, you must make sure that it is accredited. You have to be licensed before you can get an RN job. The more appropriate question is whether you can get licensed after going to an online college. Check with your state boards.
    I knew one gal who had a difficult time getting licensed in California after going thru The New York Regents. How will an online program validate or supervise clinical hours. You just can’t get through nursing school without clinical rotations.

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  3. Rotorwings-Come Fly With Me on November 19, 2009 1:54 am

    If you have a nursing license, you won’t be able to hold back the rush of places that want your body on Monday. If you want to teach, it might make a small difference, depends on if y0u make a name for yourself by presenting at seminars wherever nurses gather to learn. Trust me. My ex is a midwife with a license in Utah to practice along with an RN License. I was the coordinator for weber state’s nursing program that rotated its nurses through my
    clinical service, which is drug and alcohol treatment.

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  4. wpepper on November 19, 2009 2:04 am

    Yes because nurses need to get a lot of hands on training. You would probably have to take supplimentary classes at a real hospital or university to get the degree anyway. If they will give you an RN without hands on training then the school is a joke.

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  5. Ashley- Advocate for Christ on November 19, 2009 2:53 am

    This is a unique situation that the usual online school suggestions don’t really apply to.
    Here’s why. RN is a license from your state and not a degree from a college. If your state allows you to take the RN exam with your online, traditional, hybrid, ASN, BSN, MSN degree; and you pass that exam; then you are an RN and will be hired.
    With few exceptions of some very well placed nursing schools, employers only care whether you are an RN (have a license) and whether you have an ASN, BSN, or MSN.
    In almost all cases, the source of the degree is FAR less important than where or how you got it – as long as you have an RN.

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