Q&A: Accelerated RN to BSN programs? Is this possible?
Question by killahlaxer743: sped up RN to BSN programs? Is this imaginable?
Hello I am currently a senior in high school and have been applying to several prestigious 4-year universities and I feel very strongly about becoming a Nurse.
However, I recently was informed of a quicker and less financially exhausting means in obtaining my BSN.
Would it be possible to go to Howard neighborhood College at a much cheaper price and join in an Accelerated RN Degree application which will have to take around 13 months (full daytime course starting in the summer) and then transfer to a 4-year college as a sophomore? where I can then paintings on getting my BSN (2 extra years) without taking those first 2 years of prerequisites?
OR
2 years at Howard Community school (to get my Traditional RN) then TRANSFER to a 4-year university as a junior for an additional 2 more years to get my BSN?
OR
Should I just attend the 4-year university from get started to finish to download my BSN?
In addition, might people notice that I attended a Community College first when looking for a job or would they only see my BSN at the 4-year university? Finally, is it possible to first complete the Accelerated RN Program and then follow up by enrolling in an “Accelerated BSN Program” and bypass the extra 2 years at the 4-year university?
Thank you in advance for any suggestions or advice you may offer. If Howard Community College is not the quickest way please counsel another method.
Best answer:
Answer by Marian
Can’t resolution re Howard CC, but I would say do the AS program, get your RN certification to have a job under your belt, and then work on the BSN completion.
I know women who did the old time (do they still have them?) hospital RN diplomas and then went on to do the BSN.
I think getting into the work force as soon as you can after HS is probably the highest thing to do.
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YOu do not quite understand the process to become a RN. For the both the associates RN and the bachelors RN there is the “core component” or the actual nursing school. The time before that at either place is spent taking the nursing pre-reqs and the gen ed classes to graduate.
July 18th, 2012 at 11:52 amSO, if you did your gen ed & pre-reqs at the CC, yes, you could transfer into the bachelors RN, but you would NOT do the CC RN program and then transfer into the bachelors RN as you are stating above. Once you have a RN, to get a bachelors is a slightly different route. In any shape or form, you do need the pre-reqs and the classes required to graduate. Generally, where you get the RN education is not important in so much as you pass the NCLEX and get the RN–that is all jobs really require. So you do not do an accelerated RN and the do an accelerated BSRN quite like you are thinking up there. You also need to see if you actually qualify for an accelerated RN program at all-those are usually for someone with a LPN-already a nurse. You do not get to cut out classes willy nilly. Have you actually met with the nursing school adviser? That should be high up on your plan.
You only need a BSN degree if you want to later get a masters in something or if your area requires BSN degrees to work as a RN. All you really need is an ASN degree to become a RN and work.
July 18th, 2012 at 12:51 pm