BSN required to help save lives?

[ModernRN]

The push is for ADN nurses to go back and earn a higher degree in order to help protect and save lives is before us today. Threats of our careers being over if we do not advance our degrees. How about this concept. Police officers are killing innocent people and are violating laws themselves on a daily basis. If you higher ups are so concerned about the public health and safety, why are police officers not being required to have degrees themselves? They do not even have a degree and are ruining people lives and killing others. How about start with them and leave us innocent nurses alone. Make police officers go to college or else...pressure them as we have been pressured!

[NotMyProblem MSN, ASN, BSN, MSN, LPN, RN]

Yes I am! This actually happened. It was my personal feelings that day. Just as it was his feelings of "who gives a **** about nurses".

[NotMyProblem MSN, ASN, BSN, MSN, LPN, RN]

I have the BSN. It doesn't mean that I agree with the push for BSN degrees, nor does it mean that I'm opposed to it. In fact, I did quite well in my program. But at the time that I chose to pursue the degree, I saw the dominoes falling in areas other than my own. I've never been complacent in my roles. So, as I began my casual pursuit, I witness those around me being forced back to school for the ASN/ADN or else. It's easier to obtain anything when you're not being threatened.

I voluntarily pursued the ASN; I voluntarily pursued the BSN. But I do understand the frustrations/resentments of those with average or above average performance evaluations (for years) with diplomas and/or associate degrees being told to go back to school or get out.

The OP chose to identify the actions of police officers as being more serious and needing more attention than the degree he has. I agree, even though I know one has nothing to do with the other. Just as my friend's discounts has nothing to do with the fact that nurses do not receive gestures of appreciation like that. Just as the person who has had a bad day goes home and kicks the dog. The scenarios are all relative even though the content within is not. The more nurses accept academically and professionally, the more that will be imposed on us. We will either be aggressive/passive--aggressive, indifferent, or resistant.

So yes, I understand the OP's frustration.