Does the BSNs get paid more than ADNs hold true across the board mostly?

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I'm wondering if the small differential for having a BSN vs an ADN is more common in the acute setting or is it the norm everywhere?

Specializes in Forensic Psych.

That's only 12 years. Do you plan to retire or leave the profession anytime soon? This is of course if you do not get hired into a better position and get a significant raise because you are more marketable with a degree, ceteris parabus.

No, not retiring or leaving the workforce any time soon, unless my husband hits the lottery.

I'm just very cheap and very opposed to debt. "investment" is a foreign concept to me. Which is why it's my husband, and not I, who plays the lottery.

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Specializes in PDN; Burn; Phone triage.

The hospital that I work at doesn't hire ADN nurses anymore. At all. For any position.

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Specializes in ICU, SICU, Burns, ED, Cath lab, and EMS.

I make 75 cents more per hr because of my BSN ,its part of union contract. Magnet hospitals give preferential hiring of BSN nurse.

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Specializes in FNP, ONP.

It was different everywhere I worked. At the last position, it was a flat rate for years of experience and then a 3% increase for each credential: BSN, MSN, a specialty certification, clinical ladder II, clinical ladder III, and so on. No one of them paid very well, but if you had several, it could become significant.

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

Ha. Thats a good joke. You mean get compensated more for higher education.....funny funny.

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I'm in KY and here, the BSNs & the ADNs make basically the same. The BSN's might make $0.50/hr more, if that much. They don't have any advanced standing, either. KY is changing their requirements to be an NP or a Nurse Midwife from having a Master's in nursing to a doctorate in Nursing. If you aren't planning on getting your doctorate, and you don't want to be a nursing instructor, the BSN is pretty much a waste of time & money, as far as Bachelor's degrees go....IMHO.

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

At my facility, having a BSN or MSN will get you 25 cents more per hour than a non-BSN/MSN. AFAIK there's no increased compensation for certification.

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.
KY is changing their requirements to be an NP or a Nurse Midwife from having a Master's in nursing to a doctorate in Nursing. If you aren't planning on getting your doctorate, and you don't want to be a nursing instructor, the BSN is pretty much a waste of time & money, as far as Bachelor's degrees go....IMHO.

This is something that bothers me a lot. First are PAs going to be made to get a doctorate before they can practice? also I wish i could hold an advanced degree but there are zero options in nursing for me. The idea of being an APRN sounds atrocious, CRNA sounds boring, education is not for me, and research is out of the question. Guess I have to go somewhere else to get a masters.

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
If a hospital needs to attract BSNs for Magnet status they often pay more.

*** Interesting since there is nothing about obtaining Magnet certification that requires the hiring of BSN RNs as staff nurses.

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
I'm in KY and here, the BSNs & the ADNs make basically the same. The BSN's might make $0.50/hr more, if that much. They don't have any advanced standing, either. KY is changing their requirements to be an NP or a Nurse Midwife from having a Master's in nursing to a doctorate in Nursing. If you aren't planning on getting your doctorate, and you don't want to be a nursing instructor, the BSN is pretty much a waste of time & money, as far as Bachelor's degrees go....IMHO.

Do you have a link that can provide some info on KY's choice to require a doctorate for advanced practice nurses? This is the first I have ever heard of any state requiring a doctorate for APNs.

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I'm not sure about the PA's. That would only be fair, I think.

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There is absolutely no difference in pay at my job for ADN vs BSN. I would like to go back for my BSN, but I don't have much motivation to do so. My state also (TN) is talking about requiring a doctorate for NP as well.

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