[NRSKarenRN]

Whimsie:

Check out OJIN (Online Journal of Issues in Nursing) 2002 series of articles:
Entry Into Practice: Is it Relevant Today?

includes: Education for Entry into Nursing Practice: Revisited for the 21ST Century

has many articles and info links you need for a good paper.

Woops....see you posted this in March 2006 so guess your paper's well over. Closing thread as question answered.

[caringbear8]

check the facts/stats....ADN nurses are better prepared as far as skills and bedside nursing are concerned. BSN new grads will admit to that. Whether its ADN/BSN/diploma.....most facilities dont give a pay differential..we are all making the same hourly rate regardless of adn/bsn. We all take the NCLEX. Its more what fits your educational goals. Why get your BSN if you dont plan on going into management or on to a masters? You arent going to get any monetary incentive and just put yourself into more debt.

[HeartsOpenWide]

Originally Posted by clee1

WTG, stepping right into the koolaid with your first post.

A batchelor's degree does NOT make a person a professional. Professionalism does. You would do well to keep that little fact in mind.

So the guy at McDonald's who has professionalism should be called a professional?

[HeartsOpenWide]

Originally Posted by scaredofshots

What ever! An RN does the exact same job as a BSN except the BSN had to take a few more classes like an extra history, maybe an art class, another english, then they only go one more year and learn how to do assessments and write papers. And for what? If it is to get paid more I say HA HA because you'll only get 1.00 more for that BSN degree!

I resent that remark, we do more than just take a few extra history classes...and that extra year is not spent learning how to do assessments and write papers....we learned how to do assessments in the first 6 weeks of school and we have been writing 20 page papers all along, your sadly drastically misinformed! (let alone we have higher math, chemistry and English requirements to even apply vs. an ASN) I will graduate with my BSN with 132 units, taking no extra classes. If I had gotten my ASN I would have done it in 74 units...those fifty-eight units are not spent writing fluffy papers and taking an extra art and English class, they are spent taking ACTUAL nursing classes, as well as classes that make us well rounded. I am not bashing the ASN route, but I am tired of people bashing the BSN route, saying how we wasted our time and how we will make the same amount as ASN nurses.....yes, in bedside nursing...I could go on but I will stop before I say something that can be misconceived.