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For me and for others that I know, RN to BSN programs are very hard. I needed to just study and not work full-time. I had to work part time, but would have preferred not to. For me pulling good grades was tough. And clinicals rolled around. It was great, but I didn’t get much sleep. I think it takes a lot of dedication, but if you keep your heart in it and your eye on the goal, graduating is the best feeling I thought about taking the LPN route, but I really didn’t want to be in school and working for so many years. It’s just me. I know others I work with now who have no problem with it. I don’t know how they do it. For me I take studying too seriously, I guess. Some of my co-workers seem to breeze through classes. At least they make it look like that.

There are a lot of RN to BSN programs to pick from out there, and I had a hard time figuring out the way to go. I was really glad I took some time and investigated accreditation. The school I first thought about going said they were accredited, but it turns out they were not fully accredited. By that I mean, they were not regionally accredited. It sounds strange, I know, but the best accreditation you can receive is regional accreditation. The importance about that is that your course credits are accepted at other accredited schools. So if you decide to transfer to another school, or if you decide to further your education beyond a BSN, you are going to need to have your credits accepted by another school. Think about how much time and energy you’d waste and how discouraging it’d be a lot of the classes you thought you passed were actually deemed to be insufficient credit. You’d have to go back to school again.

Among the RN programs I was looking at to get my online BSN degree were Indiana State, Jacksonville, and Chamberlain College of Nursing. There are about 10 more RN porgrams that offer an online BSN program that I found, but I initially narrowed it down to those three, I like that I that each of the colleges were full accredited, and that they had traditional nursing programs that had been teaching nurses as many as 130 years in the case of Chamberlain College, and the others were recognized as top schools by US News and World Report and the Princeton Review. Plus I could get credit for my LPN experience. I could graduate in as little as 30 credit hours in one case and 35 in another. It is worth it to really examine the schools that are out there. I would defiantly pick one that has been around for a while and that is non-profit.