Greetings from Omaha, Ne.

Hi and welcome to the site

I see you have also posted this in the NE state forum so hopefully you will get some answers

Hello Cecilia. Welcome to Allnurses.

glad to be the newbie! already liking the website.

There is additional education to get the BSN. The BSN is desirable because it is meant to be the entry level for professional nursing. If you get the BSN now, it will cost you less time and money in the long run, and you may be saving yourself some heartache and inconvenience in the future. Imagine yourself working as a staff nurse in a hospital with an ASN, fine and dandy. Then one day you receive a memo from HR stating that all nurses in your category must show a BSN degree by a deadline that is 24 months out in order to keep their jobs. There are actually people that something like this happens to and are not able to, or who choose not to, comply. They lose their jobs. You can prevent this by getting the BSN to begin with. Or another example. You are tooling along and decide you want to go into teaching. But the MSN program you desire to start requires one to have a BSN. There are other scenarios. If possible, just get the BSN out of the way now, then you don't have to worry about it down the road. Hey, and welcome to the site!

Hi Cecilia, welcome to allnurses!

Having an ASN makes you qualified to work in a NICU, at least in the unit I work in.

Good luck to you!