ADN BSN

Streamline2010 · Jul 23, 2013

Most hospitals have a plan to have all nurses be BSRN by some date and have given current employees a deadline by which they must get the BSRN. Some have officially stated that they quit hiring diploma and associate degree. Magnet hospital or Affordable Healthcare both stipulate or strongly encourage hospitals to have all BSRN.

Of course with the nursing shortage abated and hospitals actually closing units or entire hospitals and laying off nurses, putting a BSRN stumbling block in front of everyone slows the flood of new grads, too.

The advantages to AD RN are that for dislocated workers who get retraining $, that usually only covers 24 mos / 2 year degree at best, so they can use their retraining money to pay for AD RN or diploma RN or LPN and then bridge later. If they can get a job w/ the ADRN or RN diploma, then they can be working, getting experience, getting paid, and probably also getting employer to pay the tuition for the bridge program as well.

Rural or less desirable areas or aged areas like PA, particularly those towns that lack colleges, might find it hard to get BS RNs and they may be still hiring new grad diploma or AD RNs.

TexRN, BSN, RN · Jul 23, 2013

Most hospitals have a plan to have all nurses be BSRN by some date and have given current employees a deadline by which they must get the BSRN. Some have officially stated that they quit hiring diploma and associate degree. Magnet hospital or Affordable Healthcare both stipulate or strongly encourage hospitals to have all BSRN.
Of course with the nursing shortage abated and hospitals actually closing units or entire hospitals and laying off nurses, putting a BSRN stumbling block in front of everyone slows the flood of new grads, too.
The advantages to AD RN are that for dislocated workers who get retraining $, that usually only covers 24 mos / 2 year degree at best, so they can use their retraining money to pay for AD RN or diploma RN or LPN and then bridge later. If they can get a job w/ the ADRN or RN diploma, then they can be working, getting experience, getting paid, and probably also getting employer to pay the tuition for the bridge program as well.
Rural or less desirable areas or aged areas like PA, particularly those towns that lack colleges, might find it hard to get BS RNs and they may be still hiring new grad diploma or AD RNs.

Am I saying BSN incorrectly? Is it BSRN? Sorry, I just don't want to be wording myself incorrectly! Thank you for your clarification!

allnurses Guide · Jul 23, 2013

The degree program is commonly called BSN, because the "registered" part comes after you graduate and pass the NCLEX-RN, although I've seen different initials to signify "accelerated" and I believe Canada calls theirs a BScN.

Perhaps some places call RNs with a BSN "BSRNs" and ADN "ADRNs" or refer to people who already have an RN license and are BSN students to differentiate between them and people who start their BSN with no prior nursing degree.

CowboyMedic, DNP, APRN, CRNA · Jul 23, 2013

ADN and BSN are just the degrees to become an RN. ADN equals Associate Degree in Nursing and BSN equals Bachelor of Science in Nursing. You will see either just RN for ADN behind their name or RN, BSN behind their name.

DisneyNurseGal, BSN, RN · Jul 23, 2013

My school has both programs. Once you get into the ADN (and graduate) you are automatically accepted into the BSN program (as long as your grades are sufficient). They do this so we can pass the NCLEX, and hopefully, get a job. Our BSN program is 100% online so it is very doable while working and raising a family.

I chose this program because this school was the only one in my town, and the other two programs were over an hour drive away (and the BSN part wasn't online).

TexRN, BSN, RN · Jul 23, 2013

What's it like doing it online? What college are you doing it through? What about clinicals?

DisneyNurseGal, BSN, RN · Jul 23, 2013

The first two years of the ADN are classroom classes and we do our clinicals then. The last year is all BSN type work, which are leadership, management, ethics, research and capstone classes - so no clinicals are needed and easy to complete online.

DisneyNurseGal, BSN, RN · Jul 23, 2013

I am going to Dixie State University in Southern Utah

Fireman767 · Jul 23, 2013

Im in an area of the country that has a shortage of nurses, where there are more ADNs over BSN. Funny fact is the ADNs here make close to as much as the BSNs in most of the rest of the country. But im doing the Associates and since I have a bachelors in another field most employers will consider my bachelor in lieu of a BSN, so by hospital standards when i'm an RN, ill be a BSN. However im getting my BSN anyway, doing both the BSN and ADN at the same time. im able to do that because i have a bachelors, however a normal student it would take 3-4 years for an ADN and a BSN. My BSN program is also online.

LoriRNCM, ADN, ASN, RN · Jul 24, 2013

I'm doing the ADN first, because I want to be working as soon as possible, plus my area has no universities nearby. They are all an hour or more away. I will finish my BSN online and/or through the ODU satellite location at my community college.

Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN · Jul 24, 2013

Why did you choose to go the ADN route if you did?
Why the BSN?
For me, I chose BSN because I'd rather just gitrdone, I hear a lot of people are doing ADN and bridging, what are the advantages to that?
Any tips or advice for a mom of two small babies?
Is it true that if you get your ADN that they will start requiring you to have a BSN from the get go?

The advantage to bridging is money....as in it is less money to do the ADN first then bridge to BSN. Many bridge BSN programs do not have "clinical" per se...for you got your clinical with your ADN. Many BSN bridge programs are all on line.

There is a push for nurses AFTER A CERTAIN GRADUATION DATE to have their BSN by 2020. Nothing has been settled and frankly I don't for see that happening....... for that will close to many other ADN programs....and that will cause a financial crisis worse than what we have now.

While there is NO LONGER A NURSING SHORTAGE...facilities are giving a hiring preference in SOME PARTS of the country to the BSN. ....and you will need your BSN for promotions etc within the profession......for the most part these days.

To be honest this has been the scare tactic and ongoing argument for over the 35 years that I have been a nurse......