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So I know the natural progression for most ADN grads is to go get the BSN, The University of Wyoming ( I live in wy) offers a great ADN to BSN program. Now I'll probably be enrolling in it. I wanted to see if anybody else has found that having a different bachelors degree besides nursing has been more beneficial or has helped them more? Like a Business degree or ( don't hit me too hard) A "hard" science degree like physics or chemistry? I know most BSN's require some intro chem, stats, and Bio, but i mean harder like Organic chem 2 or calc based physics.

I only ask because while I'm looking forward to being an RN I have no intention of stopping there, I'm not entirely positive what would come after weather that be NP, CRNA, MBA or J.D. I just wanted to shoot the breeze and see what people were thinking?

Welcome to Allnurses!

There is no other baccalaureate degree that will benefit you in a nursing career as much as a BSN. If you want to do a different degree for the personal satisfaction, go for it, but don't expect it to help you professionally within nursing. Take a look around this site at all the threads by people with other baccalaureate degrees complaining about why don't their other degrees help them in nursing. I always find it helpful to reframe these kinds of questions: If an acquaintance who was a chemist (or biologist, or whatever) came to you and said I'm thinking about getting another degree, but getting it in something other than chemistry (or biology, or whatever), what other degree do you think might help my career as a chemist?, what would your response be?

I would suggest that until you decide what you want your advanced degree to be then no one can really help answer this... just remember that a BS + ADN does not equal BSN..

Also consider there are some programs that offer direct entry from ADN to APRN or MSN degrees... you may consider looking at these options as well.

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