ADN vs BSN

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Do you feel their is a big difference between an ADN nurse and a BSN nurse?

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Specializes in trauma ICU,TNCC, NRP, PALS, ACLS.

yes, BSN usually climb up the ladder quicker, then ADN. Also BSN have to take community health in nursing school, ADN don't. Also if u want to get a master u have to have a BSN. In the area i currently live in the hospitals are requr. nurses to have BS and they are not hiring nurses with ADN anymore. and also if you are in nursing managem. u have to have a master.

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

depends on who you ask. Please do a search on ADN versus BSN topics. This has really been hotly debated here time and again.

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Do you feel their is a big difference between an ADN nurse and a BSN nurse?

The difference comes in the level of educational requirements which is obvious since one school is two years and the other is four years. However, nursing courses are NOT taken for the entire four years in a four year school. Like any college -- be it a junior level college or senior level college -- every college has its requirements in order to obtain a degree from their particular school.

Once a Diploma, Associate, and Bachelor complete their educational requirements for whatever school they attend, they are then eligible to sit for the NCLEX exam. If they pass, they recieve a license to practice as a registered nurse.

Now, after they become a licensed registered nurse, those nurses who have a bachelors degree do have more options available to them in some states....not all states. Depends again on what the demands in each state are, and what nurses are available to fill those demands.

No matter what educational degree you choose for yourself, there is always more education to gain as nursing is ever changing. :)

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