Bsn or lpn-adn not your usual argument

[BrenLanders]

I am just over a years graduated as an LPN in north Carolina. I worked a year in adult psych and am now on a med surg floor that takes everything non critical.

Nursing school doesn't teach you everything's I get that. But if I choose lpn to adn ( 3 semesters) its more money sooner but not much more in terms of education. (LPN to ADN would be at Forsyth tech. Comm. College) If I do bsn at Winston Salem state university ( 5 semesters plus bsn prereqs) I have to retake all my nursing classes, plus bsn prereqs. Its longer that I'm not making more money. But its like watching a movie the second time. I get to learn what I didn't during LPN.

[HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD]

I guess my real concern is how much better of an education with a university provide if I have to do the entire nursing program over again. If it's not much more in depth and I won't learn much more . . ..

It's always a puzzle to me... how people can be so sure of the defining characteristics of something that they have no actual knowledge of. In this case, OP has not yet enrolled in an RN program, but feels that "it's not much more in depth". This is like the daytime commercial of the sweet young thing saying that she chose the commercial school over the community college because she didn't want to take courses that she "didn't need".

By all means, make a decision based on your own priorities - but (please) remember the old adage "you don't know what you don't know" is always applicable to educational endeavors. Unless you are one of the curriculum designers, there's no way for you to understand what is included in a course of study until after you finish it.

[BrenLanders]

". Unless you are one of the curriculum designers, there's no way for you to understand what is included in a course of study until after you finish it.

I hadn't thought about it like that, still makes it all the more difficult to determine whether doing BSN and taking all my classes over again (having the chance to relearn stuff) is more worth the LPN-ADN program.

[applesxoranges, BSN, RN]

Research fully. Figure out the admissions process and look into any BSN programs that the ADN school is partnered with. See how long it would be to do a LPN-ADN then a RN-to-BSN program.