BSN the only "professional"??

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Hi everyone!! I have a question. I have a AS in nursing (for the last 2 months, yeah!) and I took my son to an urgent care center for a sinus infection yesterday. I was talking with the intake nurse and she came across the point on my sons intake form that I am a RN. We spoke for a while, and she told my son that I am not a "professional" nurse, because a "professional" nurse has a BSN. She, of course, has a BSN. She said the ANA supports that the lowest level of education to be considered a professional is a BS in nursing. I brought up the fact that we all pass the same NCLEX, but I didn't say to much because I wasn't sure if ANA really says this. Is this true??

Specializes in ob/gyn med /surg.

personally a BSN can wipe someones butt as well as ADN . i work w/ many BSN'a and they do the same job as ADN .i think that nurse is very rude and i would of told her to mind her own business.

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

Taking off my cap and stripe, I believe I would have had to have a sincere "word of prayer" with Ms Intake Nurse.....then pop her one.......not violently now......just memorable.

I will say the ANA has had this bug for decades now.....what 30-40 years?

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Professionalism is an attitude not a certificate. This person who made the comment is anything but professional.:angryfire

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Professionalism is an attitude not a certificate. This person who made the comment is anything but professional.:angryfire

Amen honey, preach on!!! She should've done this :trout: to that god awful nurse. hahahahahah!!!!!

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Specializes in Postpartum, Antepartum, Psych., SDS, OR.

If she is so professional why isn't she doing research, or something that sounds ego boosting? Contact her boss and report the incident, would be my suggestion.

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this information is taken from the ana website http://nursingworld.org/mainmenucategories/anamarketplace/anaperiodicals/ojin/tableofcontents/volume72002/number2may31/revisingpostiononeducation.aspx

they recommended that in the future, all nursing education, technical and professional, would be based in colleges or universities. persons interested in technical practice would enroll in junior or community colleges and earn associate degrees in two-year programs: "…minimum preparation for beginning technical nursing practice at the present time should be associate degree education in nursing" (committee on nursing education, 1965, p. 108). those interested in professional nursing would enroll in four-year programs in colleges or universities: "…minimum preparation for beginning professional nursing practice at the present time should be baccalaureate degree education in nursing" (committee on nursing education, 1965, p. 107).

i do not think that a truly professional nurse would undermine the career or education of a fellow nurse regardless of educational background.

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this information is taken from the ana website http://nursingworld.org/mainmenucategories/anamarketplace/anaperiodicals/ojin/tableofcontents/volume72002/number2may31/revisingpostiononeducation.aspx

they recommended that in the future, all nursing education, technical and professional, would be based in colleges or universities. persons interested in technical practice would enroll in junior or community colleges and earn associate degrees in two-year programs: "…minimum preparation for beginning technical nursing practice at the present time should be associate degree education in nursing" (committee on nursing education, 1965, p. 108). those interested in professional nursing would enroll in four-year programs in colleges or universities: "…minimum preparation for beginning professional nursing practice at the present time should be baccalaureate degree education in nursing" (committee on nursing education, 1965, p. 107).

if you look at the dates of the citations--some 43 years ago--you can see just how far this plan has progressed. such idealism is fine for the rarefied atmosphere of academia and theoretical discussion, but until someone comes up with a practical plan to provide enough instructors and programs to make bsn the entry level for nurses without severely exacerbating the current shortages and the prevalent job-dissatisfaction, talk of bsn-only is pretty much smoke and mirrors.

i do not think that a truly professional nurse would undermine the career or education of a fellow nurse regardless of educational background.
agreed. the way a nurse conducts herself overall has as much to do with professionalism as the letters after her name.
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