I’m always real busy, I’m 17, I have a baby and work, and I think online college would be better for me. I want to go to school to be a neonatal nurse, but I don’t know if it would look bad if I did my schooling online..and I have a ged, not a highschool diploma.
I also wanna look into community colleges in colorado where I can study nursing. I’m on my phone, not a computer so if you could send links it would be great, thanks 
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You cannot become a nurse by taking online classes. That’s not the way it works. What you can do is take your general ed classes online, since most community colleges and state universities offer some courses online (generally it would be things like English Comp, Psycology, Sociology, Algebra, Communication, etc). You would need to take your lab sciences (Chemistry, Anatomy/Physiology, Microbiology, etc) on campus and your nursing classes must be taken there, too. Also, most community colleges have those general ed and science classes in the evenings and on weekends, so that’s something to consider, as well.
What you will find with U of Phoenix and other online scams, I mean schools, is that the nursing degrees they offer are for RNs with either an Associates or a 3-year Diploma to get their BSN. Their ads are very misleading, which should be a red flag about their reputation and lack of appropriate credentials.
Don’t worry about whether you have a high school diploma, a GED, or neither. What’s important is that your college degree came from an NLN or CCNE accredited school and that you passed the NCLEX.
NLN schools: http://www.nlnac.org/Forms/directory_search.htm (primarily for ASN, Practical, and Diploma programs)
CCNE: http://apps.aacn.nche.edu/CCNE/reports/accprog.asp (for BSN and graduate programs)
As far as being a NICU RN:
Optimal nursing degree would be a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), which takes about 4 years.
While some NICUs (and some hospitals for that matter) will “prefer” to hire an RN with a BSN, as an RN, ASN, you can do anything that an RN, BSN can do. You take the same NCLEX and are issued the same kind of license from your state. That being said, I still recommend getting the BSN right from the start.
Whether you’re an RN with an Associate Degree, a BSN, or a 3 year Diploma from one of the few remaining hospital-based programs, you can work in the NICU. What matters is that you’re an RN. If you can go straight into a BSN program, it’s the best choice for becoming an RN. However, sometimes finances or current academic ability necessitate earning the ASN first and then getting your Bachelors in an RN to BSN program.
Next. DO NOT wait until you have graduated from college to start looking for a nursing job. Most hospitals have Student Nurse Externs (once you’ve completed a semester or two of clinicals) and they are nearly always offered new grad positions. If you start at a hospital that isn’t a Children’s Specialty hospital, you will likely need to work Mother/Baby or Postpartum for about a year. You will be taking care of healthy newborns (and their moms) during this period and it will help you to be familiar with caring for the childbearing family. After about a year, most places will let you transfer to the NICU since you already have experience with newborns (and you will have worked with a lot of the NICU staff during your year of Postpartum.
Now, if you are lucky enough to live near a Children’s Hospital, most of them have new grad programs that will start you right into the NICU. Be forewarned, these new grad programs are often for BSN grads only. There is a BIG trend towards making the BSN the minimum for new grads at a lot of larger hospital networks. That means that should you earn an ASN instead, you’d need experience before being hired at one of those hospitals.
Best wishes in your nursing career goals!