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Central Michigan University launches online nursing program this fall

Central Michigan University has launched an online nursing program to help working nurses get their bachelor’s degree. 

The RN-to-BSN program is designed for students to get a degree in one year or less. 

Bethany Brown, Assistant Director of the program said the program is more flexible for students in the workforce. 

“It is important to be quick and to have options,” Brown said. “Our program, you can finish in a little under a year up to three years, you can do whatever time you would like to. It is important for those who just want to get it over with and move on with their career.”

Brown said students who do not have general education requirements fulfilled may take longer to complete the program. 

She said typically nurses have an associates degree, but more hospitals are beginning to require them to go back to school. 

Brown said a bachelor’s degree offers cultural and diversity aspects of care, leadership, and research for community, public and global health. She said the degree would widen the concepts that nurses currently have.

Brown said the clinical requirements for the program are different from the associate degree requirements, clinicals can be done at the student’s place of work.

She said 14 students have been admitted to the program. 

Classes begin for the fall semester on Monday, August 26.

Tess DeGayner is a student reporter for WCMU News. She is a senior at Central Michigan University studying Journalism and Broadcasting. Her hometown is Fenton, Michigan.