This is total nonsense. Many of these people possessing these Schwifty Rick And Morty Shirt will never make the money they should. Its simply a waste and does nothing to make one a better bedside nurse. Although I have my BSN, pressured to get it, my USABLE nursing skills and knowledge was through my ADN program. 37 yrs. later, and I still use all of my ADN learnin. So if you go for your MSN or DNP in advanced nursing practice (NP, CNS, CRNA), it ain’t worth the financial investment? All the newer RNs are going back to school to get their APRN degrees!
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I was an LPN, an ADN and a BSN. Getting only aBSN means you don’t know how to be a nurse in the real world and need to be trained. The diploma nurses were able to get out and function…. This is craziness. I’m all for advanced practice and education but common sense has left the building. This is crazy and driven by the national nursingorganizations and probably universities because it is a revenue grab. There is no difference in the exam for either degree. They pass the same test. Now some hospital networks will only hire BSN nurses and it is to the detriment of patients.
This has also allowed hospitals to force ASN prepared nurses to go back to school as a condition of keeping their jobs. This is expensive and tuition assistance is not always offered. Once these nurses graduate there is usually no increase in pay. The ASN programs have become very popular at community colleges because they are cheaper and can be completed faster than a BSN. Unfortunately, when many of these nurses return to complete their BSN they have to go to 4 year universities, which are expensive and require classes to complete the general studies requirement of said 4 year university. Who would you rather have taking care of you in a medical crisis?
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Would you prefer the ASN with 20 years experience or the BSN who just graduated, passed her boards and just finished orientation for her first job last week? There is a huge nursing shortage looming because of an anticipated mass retirement of experienced nurses in the next 10 years. Many of these nurses are the ones being forced out of the workforce because they don’t want to go back to school for a degree that they will use for 10 years. Lastly, this saves hospitals money too because the ASN with 20 years experience make substantially more per hour than a new grad at the bottom of the pay scale.
I won’t argue that there is a need for further nursing education in certain situations. I, for example, am an NP so I now have a master’s degree because an advanced degree was required for me to do that, but for bedside care, which are the nurses that deliver the majority of care to patients, a BSN is not required.Well said Krissy. I have my BSN but have always respected ASN prepared nurses. Especially the ones that shared their experience with me and taught me how to be a nurse. I’ll tell you who needs the higher Medical education that is the Physicians I have never never in my life seen such a poor group of positions that we have in our area you can’t trust any of them well I should retract that there’s about two that I trust.
These same issues have been raised since the 1950s. I have a diploma and a BS in another field that was very helpful. I also was a certified pediatric nurse practitioner (retired now) when a MS was not required. I went to school almost all of the 38 years I practiced. My recommendation is to take the most important parts of the BSN program and the best parts of the diploma program and you will finally have an education program that produces nurses with terrific skills. One person below says, “hands on nursing is only a small part of saving lives. Hands on nursing with excellent judgement is the best kind of nurse. Frankly, I believe that all college programs should be reorganized so that the person gets a good feel for what is expected of them after Schwifty Rick And Morty Shirt. In other words, there needs to be a practicum with every field that is studied. I know too many people who got a degree in a certain field and then learned that they hated it.