BSN requirement for all RNs

jschut, BSN, RN · Nov 24, 2004

Works for me.

RN34TX · Nov 24, 2004

Works for me.

I don't think that there was anything wrong with the comments that you made. She needed to hear from Indiana nurses after making such broad statements about them. She sounds like she works at a facility that hires the bottom of the barrel and I've been there myself.

Another thing about her mentioning NCLEX a second time. I've worked with several nurses who did not pass it the first or even second time around but eventually they did pass and were great nurses to work with.

Some of them were so good that I was quite shocked for them to tell me of their difficulty in passing NCLEX. I don't have a lot of faith in that test safeguarding us from bad nurses either.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Nov 24, 2004

Kristen,
Please allow me to inform you that I am a LPN, and a very competent nurse and I can even spell!
Furthermore, I was the single mother of 6 children, and I lived on welfare because their father (and I say that lightly) who was an aircraft mechanic, apparently didn't see fit to help clothe his children.
Know what? We were evicted a couple of times because we couldn't pay our bills, so were we considered "live in a dumpster" too?
After I gave custody to my mother for awhile until I could get situated, which was about 6 years ago, which made me feel like a worthless piece of crap who couldn't even take care of my own, I am now a successful college graduate of a LPN program, gainfully employed at a LTC facility and am buying a house.
Guess where, Kristin? In INDIANA!
Oh, another thing...I am in a BSN program at a nearby college that accepts 40 students per year. I must not be that slothful or stupid, huh?
So before you start flapping your lips about something you obviously have no clue about, I suggest you stop and think...something you are apparently not steadfast in doing.

Julie YOU ROCK!!!! Stereotypes are wrong wrong wrong wrong and wrong.

Nurse Ratched, RN · Nov 24, 2004

Asking for a close for this thread, it's beyond ugly.

A BSN/ASN thread turning ugly? Say it ain't so!

Agreed - thread closed. Taking bets on how long til this topic rears its head again. Please pm me with your best guesses. Winners will be awarded chocolate .