By Jeffrey Burghauser
Philosopher Sinéad Murphy sits down for a conversation with New English Review Contributing Editor Jeffrey Burghauser. Doctor Murphy’s latest book, Autistic Society Disorder, offers many clarifying insights into the intersections of society, education, mental health, and so much else besides.
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Good evening! I am a Registered Nurse and feel obligated to explain the online nursing degree. One must already be a Registered Nurse (RN) to embark on such a degree. The initial training and school attendance to become an RN is completed in the manner of class attendance, homework, and a substantial amount of clinical experience caring for patients in different types of clinical settings. The successful conclusion of the training qualifies the student nurse to sit for the NCLEX exam, which if passed, licenses the RN.
Why the online degree? In the US, the RN can be obtained from a community college (an Associate Degree), a four year course of study (a BSN, meaning a Baccalaureate Nurse), and some colleges qualified nurses after studying for an initial four-year degree in another field by offering an intense immersion in nursing at college, including clinical experience of caring for real live patients, which when completed awards a Masters Degree.
I myself started as an RN from an Associate Degree community college course of study, returned to college years later to complete studies for a BSN, and then continued at a different university for a Masters Degree. The Masters degree was online, and was the only part of my nursing education completed that way.
I needed the BSN and MSN credentials for the work I did away from the bedside. Those degrees were valuable to me, but I must say that online learning, while being a realistic training ground for the actual work I was to do as an Administration major, was the most difficult environment in which to collaborate with other students. Much of what we did was work on group projects, and we lived all over a large but sparsely populated state. Online learning was practical in that in that is actually how most of the administrative work is done, when not is meetings. I hope that this explains that your RN will never be someone who hasn’t cared for patients to prepare for being your nurse.
Good interview.