About Us
We developed www.onlinecoursesearch.com to provide a searchable, web-based database for nursing professionals interested in taking distance courses from accredited institutions. As a faculty member, then director, of a nursing program at the University of Maine, I often found myself in the situation of helping students locate courses that were not available in our institution, or not being offered within the needed time frame. There have been programs and degree offerings, such as the University of Phoenix, but until now, there has been no way (beyond making numerous phone calls and/or looking at individual websites) to make choices from different schools’ courses offered totally at a distance. We created this site with the hope and expectation that it will facilitate the location of courses and stimulate interest in offering more courses totally at a distance. At the request of many schools, we have added the option of adding distance programs to the database. We hope you will benefit as students and advisors of students from our website. Please send feedback and suggestions to us at contact@onlinecoursesearch.com.
Sincerely,
Therese Shipps and the Development Team
President, Therese B. Shipps, D.N.Sc., R.N.
graduated from Saint Anselm’s College in Manchester N.H. with a baccalaureate in nursing in l966. After serving 
in the Army Nurse Corps for four years, she completed both master’s (focus in medical-surgical nursing in l974) and doctoral (D.N.Sc. in l988) degrees from Boston University. Over the course of her career, she has held the positions of staff nurse, head nurse, clinical specialist, quality assurance and nursing research coordinator, faculty member, and director of a nursing program. She served as member, then chair, of the Maine State Board of Nursing until the summer of 2008. She recently received the 2007 Leadership Award from OMNE: Nursing Leaders of Maine “for demonstrating outstanding achievements in the areas of nursing leadership, communication, and commitment to patient care”. She retired from the University of Maine in the summer of 2008. You may contact Dr. Shipps at
Terry@onlinecoursesearch.com.
