[buddhak0n]

Originally Posted by Tweety

They both are pretty equally difficult as they both gear themselves to the same end.........NCLEX RN.

What makes the 2nd degree BSN program more difficult is the fact that it's at an accellerated pace and you finish in one year. But this pace would be you used to the pace you'll find in CRNA school.

It is definately possible to get a 3.0 in an accellerated program.

My advice to you is to bite the bullet and do the accellerated program and get done in one year. Becoming a CRNA requires nursing experience and ICU experience, so you're going to need a couple of year on the floor before applying to those programs.

If you go the ADN route, that takes 2 years. Then another year or two (depending on the pace and the program) to complete your ADN to RN because CRNA and Masters programs require a BSN. So you're looking at 4 years of school to get the BSN rather than the one, although you could be working as an RN while you get your ADN to BSN completion. This might be the easier softer way and allow for better grades, but the time factor would slow you down.

OK great... I'd love to do it in a SINGLE year and I'd expect it to be highly intellectually challenging...

I Live in 08260 and don't intend to drive 2 hours each way each day to do it at Jefferson or the U Of Penn...

What do I do ? LOL... Seriously the only program I've found around here is Stockton and I don't even think they HAVE a Second Degree BSN let alone an ACCELERATED BSN...

Sorry but I guess the only way I'd ever get this done will be to go spend thousands of dollars (Again) without any guarantee or inkling that it will result in dollar one of income... sorry without a job offer I wouldn't even waste my time..

Nursing Shortage? Yeah so they say but everytime I walk by a nursing station I can't rightly say that I see any dramatic shortage of people hanging around.. sorry I know that's probably not fair but my wife has been in health care for years and years and years... and I've been around and some of it is TRUE and some of it is " FICTION" <g>

[mstigerlily]

If you already have a BS and graduate courses in sciences, an ADN would be simple for you. I'd do a direct entry MSN program if I were you, or at least teh BSN.

I found the big difference between BSN/ADN classes was the BSN had a lot more about nursing theory, nursing research, and a lot more reading of both of those things and also paper writing. I was surprised at how few papers we wrote in the ADN program and when we did they had little seminars and study guides for us, as if writing an academic college level paper woudl be something new or challenging for us. In the BSN program, they seemed to take for granted we already knew how to do this.

Originally Posted by Dino

I am accepted to both, I do have intentions of getting masters at at some point, or CRNA. I do obviously holg a BS in biology, and some graduate courses in the sciences. Knowing most masters programs in nursing require at least 3.0 gpa, does anyone know how much more difficult a 12 month 2nd degree BSN program is vs a 23 month ADN program which the pace is slower due to greater time period. In other words has or does anyone know how hard it would be to get at least 3.0 in 2nd degree program which lasts only 12 months?

[PANurseRN1]

Originally Posted by buddhak0n

Nursing Shortage? Yeah so they say but everytime I walk by a nursing station I can't rightly say that I see any dramatic shortage of people hanging around.. sorry I know that's probably not fair but my wife has been in health care for years and years and years... and I've been around and some of it is TRUE and some of it is " FICTION" <g>

Let me see if I understand this.

Based on your casual observation as a non-nurse walking past a nurses' station, you see several people and deduce that there is no nursing shortage. Do you know for a fact that all of those people were nurses? As in "real nurses" (LPNs/RNs)? For all you know, they could have been housekeeping staff, Bio-Med, UCs, aides, heck, any old Tom, Dick or Harry these days for that matter. Just because there are a lot of people at a nurses' station does not=good staffing.

Your wife has "years and years and years in health care." In what capacity? As a nurse? Because if she's not a nurse, again, neither of you can really speak to staffing issues of nurses since neither of you would know what nurses need.

I noticed the <g> at the end of your post. I suppose that was to indicate that what you wrote was intended to be somewhat humorous. Please know that for those of us who really are nurses, understaffing is not a laughing matter, something you will become painfully aware of should you become a nurse yourself.