At a rate equivalent to roughly one credit per week, students eat, sleep and dream about nursing for 12 months straight as they persevere through the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh’s one-of-a-kind Accelerated Online Bachelor’s to BSN Option (ACCEL).

The newest issue of CONtact, the College of Nursing’s magazine,  features an update on ACCEL and its graduates, as this national model for online nursing education celebrates its 10th anniversary.

“I knew ACCEL would be a great fit for my learning style,” said alumnus Luke Menet ’10, of Appleton. “The program is very unique for an online program in that you receive feedback from peers and professors multiple times each day due to the pace of the curriculum. The relationship of online learning and clinical experience within the curriculum encouraged learning and application of knowledge and evidence-based practice.”

CONtact, available online now, also includes stories about the transformation underway of the  College of Nursing’s laboratories and recent Nightingale award winners as well as updates from the undergraduate and graduate nursing programs.