Curious-why do people put ADN, RN? It's ASN...

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Basically the title says it all! I am curious why anyone would put ADN, RN after their name...you hold an associates in SCIENCE nursing, RN to BSN-bachelors of SCIENCE nursing. Associate Degree Nursing just seems so unprofessional. Maybe that is just me, but I thought I would ask!

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I have an MN, not an MSN. This is according to the University of Washington, which confers both degrees.

A husky! Did you do your BSN there, or just the MN? Basically... did you have to wear the purple scrubs?

In my experience, only academia cares about those funny degree letters.

And the OP.

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Okay so then Libby BAD/ASsN RN?

And I had no idea there were BAN's, all I've ever seen posted here or in job listings is BSN.

i made a thread on it.

Very interesting

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Now that i took at look at the thread,maybe type of Degree does matter.

I wondered why job postings do not say "BAN/BSN" preferred.

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i dont understand this question...

depending on what school you went to/graduated from, some of them refer to it as Associates of Science degree in Nursing (ASN) or Associates Degree in Nursing (ADN) ...

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Its the same degree, but your school will refer to it in 1 of the 2 ways...

does it really matter?

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It actually varies in which country you came from, like in Canada, Sweden, Portugal, Brazil, Iceland, Korea, Greece and the Philippines they already require a 4-5 year undergraduate Baccalaureate degree to practice nursing and to sit-in for a licensure exam to be a Registered Nurse. Nurses with ASN/ADN are considered as Nursing assistant/Nursing Aide and/Midwives under the supervision of a B.S.N.-R.N., and if you happen to live in one of these countries, it will definitely confuse you on why Nurses with A.S.N. has R.N.,

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A husky! Did you do your BSN there, or just the MN? Basically... did you have to wear the purple scrubs?

Woof!

No purple scrubs, I wore a lab coat for clinical rotations.

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