HELLO FROM BARROW...
It’s been some time since I’ve written to the blog. Did I mention in an early post about how fortunate I am to be working here with an associate degree in nursing? A condition of my hire was that I begin a bachelor of science in nursing program within a reasonable amount of time. My supervisor said that all State of Alaska public health nurses are required to have earned a BSN and that that would be in my future also, if I accepted the position. My first year and a half included what felt like continual work-related training and long hours at the clinics in Barrow, the villages and in the community, so it wasn’t possible to consider beginning a BSN program until this past spring. I love school and have taken quite a palate full of courses over the years before and after earning my ADN, so the prospect of beginning a program was enticing. It took some research to sort through the various online offerings to determine which one would require the least amount of additional p