| Online nursing degrees are growing in popularity as | | | | program which allows the LPN to complete their |
| more people rush to enter the lucrative, highly | | | | associate degree and become a registered nurse. |
| in-demand field of nursing. | | | | An example of this is Chamberlain College of |
| Online degrees offer some wonderful advantages. | | | | Nursing. Excelsior College and many others offer |
| You can take classes at whatever time of day is | | | | these opportunities as well. |
| convenient for you. You can work full-time and | | | | You can also, after you get your associate's |
| still earn a salary while getting your degree. You | | | | degree in nursing, take online classes to get a |
| can bring your laptop with you and study and | | | | bachelor's of science in nursing. This frequently will |
| send in homework assignments while you are on | | | | result in a higher salary, and also, if you want to |
| the bus or subway, at the beach, or at the | | | | progress into managerial positions, you generally |
| coffeeshop. You don't have to spend time and | | | | need at least a BSN. |
| gasoline driving to a college campus, looking for | | | | There are online nursing degree programs which |
| parking, walking half a mile to your building, walking | | | | grant master's degrees in nursing as well. |
| back.... | | | | Also, you can take many of your prerequisites |
| However, online nursing degrees do have their | | | | online - English, psychology, nutrition, etc. You |
| limitations. | | | | need to have those completed before you are |
| First of all, there is currently only one online | | | | accepted into an LPN to RN bridge program. |
| program in the country that we know of - the | | | | For information and links to a bunch of great |
| University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh - that allows a | | | | online nursing degree programs, click here: |
| person with no healthcare degree or certificate to | | | | IMPORTANT NOTE: Not every state accepts |
| get their nursing degree. They take a limited | | | | these online nursing programs. For example Florida |
| number of students, they require you to have a | | | | does not recognize Excelsiors paramedic to lpn |
| previous bachelor's degree, you must have | | | | program, so if you took that program, you would |
| completed a number of science and other | | | | not be able to sit for the NCLEX-RN program in |
| prerequisites, and they grant an accelerated | | | | Florida. You must check with your state board of |
| second bachelor's degree. Most of the program is | | | | nursing before you sign up with the online |
| online, but you must go to the campus in | | | | program, because you do not want to spend all |
| Oshkosh several times, AND not every state | | | | that time and money and find out that you are |
| offers the clinicals that are required for the | | | | not eligible to sit for the NCLEX, which is the test |
| program. | | | | that you must pass in order to be licensed as a |
| What is much more common are programs that | | | | nurse. |
| allow an LPN or a paramedic to take a "bridge" | | | | |