{"id":28861,"date":"2016-02-08T14:59:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T20:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=28861"},"modified":"2023-05-10T16:02:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T21:02:48","slug":"nursing-recognized-for-its-flexible-option-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/nursing-recognized-for-its-flexible-option-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing recognized for its Flexible Option program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great Value Colleges, a website that recommends\u00a0\u00a0the best values in education to students, ranks the College of Nursing in its Top 30 Affordable Online RN to BSN Programs in the country.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28862 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2016\/02\/RN-BSN_b.png\" alt=\"RN-BSN_b\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Through the self-paced, competency-based UW Flexible Option format, UWM\u2019s RN to BSN program is for nurses with associate degrees who would like to earn a baccalaureate degree while still having time for work and family.<\/p>\n<p>According to the website, the Institute of Medicine recently released a study on The Future of Nursing, which calls for increasing the number of baccalaureate-prepared nurses in the workforce to 80 percent by 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Value Colleges, a website that recommends\u00a0\u00a0the best values in education to students, ranks the College of Nursing in its Top 30 Affordable Online RN to BSN Programs in the country. 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