RN Nursing Program?

Please do your research. From your prior post, it's clear you already have been burned for medical assistant licensing. In my area, the very pressing need is for BS/RNs, not even RNs or LPNs. And an associate's degree is not in demand at all. Before you insist on only an associate's degree, go on line for all the hospitals and major medical practices to see what they are looking for. You can also subscribe to Monster for job alerts to see what's showing up in all of NJ. The emphasis is definitely shifting to more education, not less, so I think you should really investigate much more before you search for a specific program that may waste your time. Even if there is SOME demand, if a school is unable to find jobs for its graduates and if its enrollment is declining and financial pressures are mounting as a result, you may well find yourself in another situation where your money was taken and you are left with no certification. I know you want to go to school for as little time as possible, but you may be hurting your chances more than you realize.

RN is a registered nurse. 4 year degree and nursing school. What you are after is not that. You can't be an RN with an associates degree.

Personally, you need to contact your local university/community college and have a discussion with them. In the end, what do you want to do? Work in a hospital? A doctor's office? What do you want to do? Once you figure that out, contact those places and find out what the requirements are. More education not less is going to open doors for you.

Not sure what the deal is in NJ but here in CA you can't become an RN with just an associates degree, you need the full four years, accredited university Bachelor of Science degree, plus nursing school.
You REALLY should be asking the staff at the Dr's offices or hospitals that you plan to apply to for a job, they will tell you exactly what is required and where you should go to get it.

i surely hope there aren't. nurses are so vitally important to the infrastructure of our wacky health care system. if there are programs that allow the learning process to be circumvented and people shunted through without the appropriate training, that's a huge concern.
khairete
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To be a doctor you have to go to college and do pre-med first.

To be a psychiatrist you first have to go to medical school and THEN decide to specialize in psychiatry.

To be a principle of a school you have to go to college to be a teacher, gain experience THEN you can go back to school and get advanced degrees.

Same with nursing. There are steps you have to do to get to a higher degree.

Otherwise why go to college at all? Why not just go ahead and just go up to a grad school and tell them you want to enroll in their doctoral program so you can skip the BA degree and the Master's degrees.

There are steps and stages that everyone must go through to get from one thing to another. You might find a program that does the RN BUT you are still going to have to do the same classes you'd have to do for the LPN.

You MUST have the same knowledge. They might call it RN but you still have to do everything an LPN program does THEN add on the RN things.

It would be like a doctor going through high school then skipping pre-med and going straight into medical school without having any higher science or math or anything that is needed for him to understand the classes he's taking. He'd have to STILL go the full amount of years because he'd have to still have all the pre-med classes. They'd just call them something different.

You have to have ALL the education or you can't get the degree.

Around here community colleges are the best way to go but you have to invest time in the school before they accept you into the program.

Yes, Diane is right, there is no demand for a RN with an associate degree. It is not even considered a real RN by most practices. If you are lucky you can find a job as a school nurse making at or less than 15 an hour even in your area.

Have to add because your big meany post leads me to believe you think people are stupid. You are not looking for a program that accepts you without an LPN because all of them do, after all you don't graduate high school with an LPN. You are looking for a program that transfers the credits you think you have earned. The program you took is unaccredited, it will not transfer.

I'm a recruiter, while I don't recruit in the health field? I can tell you that an associates isn't going to cut it.

You need to talk with a career counselor at your local community college or a university. You will need a career path and the counselor SHOULD help you with that.

The way I understand you become a Registered Nurse is starting from scratch and working your way through to your Bachelors. If you are going to spend 4 years? Get your bachelors. It will be worth more to you in the long run.

Please go to a career counselor at your local school and get started.

Good luck!

I work with a few ladies who've gotten out of nursing.
Their reasons are too much heavy lifting (patients over 200/300 lbs) and crazy shift hours.
It's fine if you have no family but once you have kids it's too crazy a schedule - at least for the ladies I know.
I know other women make it work for them but it's hard.

A good general resource to begin to learn exactly what you might need is the government website here:

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/mobile/registered-nurse...

You'll find a ton of useful information there among other things that the profession is in demand through 2022 so you have a bright future there.

Also, you may want to contact your local state nurse association for some advice on this question:

http://www.njsna.org/