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Online Learner Profiles: Melissa

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Guide to Online Education > Online Education In-Depth > Meet Real Online Students > Melissa, BS in Nursing

Three 12-hour shifts a week in a rural hospital ER tending to car accident victims, dealing with the occasional farm accident, and nursing patients who have suffered a heart attack, would be enough to keep most people busy.

Melissa, an RN who lives in Michigan, is the first to admit it is exhausting. Still she is committed to furthering her career in nursing; and that requires more education.

Her coursework at the University of Michigan, Flint involves extensive reading, writing, and clinicals. It has been a long road for the single mother of two teenagers who will be awarded her bachelor of science in nursing this fall.

But she has done most of it without making the two-hour drive to campus. That is a true blessing to someone who made a lot of personal sacrifices early in her educational career.

To earn her Licensed Practical Nurse certificate in 1996 she had to drive 60 miles each way to St. Clair County Community College. On days when there were clinicals two days in a row, she and another classmate would rent a hotel room and stay over.

"I wanted to go right on for my RN," she remembers. "But I had to take prerequisites." It was three more years before she graduated from the program at St. Clair. She had been able to attend the satellite campus nearby.

"We watched the instructor on television broadcast from the home campus." She only had to drive in for practicals.

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