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When it comes to advancing your degree and education, what are people's thoughts on continuing right after graduating with your ADN or BSN? Is it better to take a break from school and focus on developing your skills and getting into the swing of things, so to speak, as a new grad?

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

Most programs, especially online, are not extremely rigorous. While developing your skills and comfort level as a nurse is the most important task in that first year, IMO, I don't see why a bright person who doesn't have a lot of other lifestyle distractions couldn't do both. You're really only working at developing your skill while at work. That leaves a lot of free time in which you could be studying and writing papers.

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I graduated with my BSN and then took 1 semester off, after which I immediately began working on my MSN. I'm doing the MSN part time which allows me to continue to work full time and hone my skills. I have no problem doing both at the same time.

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Specializes in ICU.

I'm going to get my ADN then get a job and work while obtaining my BSN online. So I can get experience. Most big hospitals want experience with that degree.

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Work is work, so you won't be bringing that home with you unlike school. So I plan to get my ADN and work on my BSN online part time at first. Depending on how consuming I find my coursework I may choose to switch to full time because I do want to also get my MSN in midwifery but time and circumstances will tell

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Thank you for the feedback everyone.

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