Bridge why or why not?

Fiona59 · Jul 31, 2014

Hate to break it to you, OP, but it exists in Canada.

Up here there are only LPNs or BScN programmes.

MrChicagoRN, RN · Aug 1, 2014

Thats a big leap their a big difference from what a LPN can and what we as nurse with higher degrees can do. Just my opinion; I dont think its a good idea,but hey.

Yes there is is a big difference. But, isn't the purpose of an educational program to educate & prepare one to assume greater duties and responsibility?

HazelLPN, LPN · Aug 1, 2014

Yes there is is a big difference. But, isn't the purpose of an educational program to educate & prepare one to assume greater duties and responsibility?

My BSN training made me more knowledgeable in areas of nursing that I did not practice and it helped me away from the beside, but it had virtually no influence on how I functioned at the bedside in the ICU. You learn that on the job, not in school.

Big difference? In theory, yes there is a big difference. In reality? It's not so simple. One must factor in the scope of practice of the LPN, the years of experience and one's natural talents. In my opinion, formal education is important for the status of the nursing profession, but nurses who have less formal education can and do compensate for the lack of formalized education with informal education as it does not stop at nursing school, that is just the tip of the iceberg. Education continues throughout one's life.

If a hospital is going to require an all BSN staff, the ethical thing to do is to do it by attrition AND/OR offer nurses with less formal education an opportunity to complete that formal education at the hospital's expense.