Rock Valley College
Rockford, Illinois

Northern Illinois Online Initiative for Nursing

The Northern Illinois Online Initiative for Nursing is a viable regional collaborative involving four community colleges (Highland Community College, Kishwaukee College, Rock Valley College, Sauk Valley Community College), one major university and eight hospitals, which proposes to offer a hybrid online ADN program in addition to the four ADN programs already in place.

Didactic nursing classes would be taken online whereas the skills labs and clinical experiences would be offered concurrently at the community colleges and regional health care facilities, as appropriate. While classroom space is not needed, NIOIN has been assured by all participants that campus lab space and hospital units for clinical experiences will be provided.

It is anticipated that up to ten students could be accepted from each of the four colleges into NIOIN and the students, upon completion, would receive an AAS degree from their respective colleges.