Registered Nursing?? How to Do It?

There are several reputable online programs where you can begin your classes to work toward your RN. You can't complete an ASN or BSN online because of the clinical aspect of your training, obviously.

I am an RN, a manager, and do hire RNs for a major hospital corporation. If you have earned the credentials "RN", then you have passed the standardized national exam called the NCLEX, and you are qualified to take most entry level RN jobs. In my experience, I don't know of too many hiring managers who care much where you went to school because, as I said, the ASN or BSN is one thing, but to have the "RN", you took and passed the same exam the rest of us did. Do what you can online if it works for you and your family.
As far as whether to get a 2 year Associate's degree or a 4 year Bachelor's (both degrees will culminate in you taking the same NCLEX, and having an "RN"behind your name, with no distinction as to whether you have the ASN or BSN, except on your resume), there are some changes happening with nursing degrees, but from my research so far, the changes are mostly addressing a Master's and a Doctorate in nursing, and not the ASN. Yet. Talk with a guidance councelor at a local college, OR, get online and contact the American Nurse's Association for the most up-to-date info on whether the ASN is still worth looking into. If it is, I highly recommend that route. The BSN allows you to go into management roles more easily, but with the going RN hourly rate at right around $30/hr to start, you'd be making over $60,000 right out of school!
Good luck!

Being an RN requires a (four year) Bachelors in Science degree from an accredited Nursing program.
You can do your first two years of undergrad work at a community/junior college. Work very closely with a counselor to make sure all the courses you take are transferable to whatever university nursing program you plan to apply to. It's important that you stay on track and complete all your work with very good grades as most of these programs are impacted (meaning they get a lot more applicants than they can take.)
You won't be able to do much online, and you wouldn't want to anyway. Legitimate online courses are really hard and require even more time and discipline to complete than physically going to class.
AND you will need lots of support from your spouse and/or family, you will be gone and studying a LOT, so make sure your support system is on board.
Good luck, a friend of mine just finished this journey at the age of 44 and she loves her new career!

Stay away from online courses. I am not a nurse, I do accounting for a doctor's group. One of my good friends is our recruiter, they don't even bother to look at a resume if the person did online.

Other than that I know nothing.

You have to go to nursing school in person to be a nurse. Otherwise you don't get the things you need, like a mannequin to do stuff on that will teach you how to do it on a real person. You won't be able to do clinicals of course.

I think you can take a lot of lower level classes online if that's how you want to go to school. I always did better when I could be in the classroom.

I hope you decide to do it. Nursing school is really hard but once you're out the benefits outweigh all you went through getting there.

Do your associates at a 2 year college that has transfer agreement for easy transfer to a four year for your BSN. The national standard may soon switch to bachelors making it hard to get hired with an ASN.
Make sure you have had exposure to patient care to make sure that before you do all the education you can do personal care and actually like it. Also no online, less respect to get hired.

You can do required core classes online. Like, math, English, history...all that. I would do any classes that directly relate to nursing, at a physical school. You can start at a community college and transfer to a 4 year college. Many community colleges have nursing programs, that directly feed into certain universities/colleges.

You can take some of the pre-requisite courses on line. However, you will need to attend in person for the nursing program.
You can get an associate 2 -year degree RN or a a Bachelors in Nursing RN - Both 2 year and 4 years degree graduates sit for the exact same exam to become an RN. If you want to go into management it is better to have a Bachelors degree,
I am not sure what an STNA is - I am an RN and I worked as a nursing assistant while in school - it helped me learn to feel comfortable in the setting. This is not required, just a choice.
Call the colleges that you would consider attending and make an appointment with the guidance couselor in the nursing department - they will tell you exactly what you need to do to get your RN.

It is very hard and demanding - when in nursing school you have little time for anything else.