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I just graduated from an ADN program and was so looking forward to just gettting a job and some real life experience. ( i also have a BA in english and have been in school for my entire life!) I have been working for a year as an aide at a really well respected rehab hospital and was certain I would just continue on as an RN. Turns out they are trying to get magnet status and are now only accepting BSN. I quickly applied to a program hoping that would make them consider me. I have been told over and over it doesnt really seem like they are going to be able to make any acceptions but my only shot is to have a very clear and quick plan for aquiring the BSN.

What are peoples thoughts on this? I really really really don't want to be back in school. I dont have the money first of all, and i feel so utterly burnt out from being in school nonstop. I am a step away from going to them and saying this is what I have...take it or leave it. I am afraid to do that bc I am in a place where the new grad job market is so tight. Do i suck it up and get another bachelors just to appease this stupid system? It just feels like such a let down to have worked so hard at getting my RN...i passed the boards and was feeling like i finally reached the top of the mountain only to realize i have way more to climb. I am just ready to pull my hair out. I just want to work as a nurse and stop sitting in a class room.

So go for the bsn and maybe get this job...or tell look elswhere in a ****** job market for someone who will take me as i am?

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it's not much of a dilemma, it's a predicament:cool:. if they say, "no exceptions," then that's what they mean.

if you really have a ba in english and an adn, apply to a bachelor's-in-anything-to-mn program, and see if the hospital will keep you on in your present capacity in the meantime. they might. )you can also look for a job elsewhere that values this sort of initiative more.) it will take you the same amount of time and you'll have the master's at the end of it.

and for all those other folks out there wondering whether they should do the associate's degree first ("i can always do the bachelor's later") ... maybe not.

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Due to issues such as Magnet employers are being pushed to require BSN as a qualification. I am an ADN with 16+ years experience and because of my experience I am often ahead of newer BSN prepared nurses educationally because learning does not stop with getting the nursing degree. it can have a negative impact on your career. Many schools offer 100% on liine BSN at your own pace. To maintain status and stability continue to educate. I have been in health care for 28+ years and it is the way you survive and move forward. You can also pursue degrees outside of nursing as well as an adjunct to nursing. good luck

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thanks so much for the insight. It helps to hear from people with some experience!

I actually went to speak with the school and they encouraged me to sign up for the rn-msn. It is a masters in education for nursing which just sounds strange to me as a new grad. What are your thoughts on this? I can't really imagine learning to be a nurse educator when i really need someone to be educating me still! Thanks again for the input. It really does help me a lot!

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Teaching has been a focus of my career since a nursing assistant my first 13 years of Florence Nightingale nursing. We all learn and teach as we go and it is what we pass to those in the future so go for that Masters with confidence. Do you realize that you can go straight through your nursing education to a Masters without stopping for BSN or work based experience along the way? Go for it and let me know how it turns out....

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it's not much of a dilemma, it's a predicament:cool:. if they say, "no exceptions," then that's what they mean.

grntea, have i told you lately that you rock? :D

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Teaching has been a focus of my career since a nursing assistant my first 13 years of Florence Nightingale nursing

is there another type of nursing??

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Florence Nightingale Nursing is referred to as the nursing assistant stage of nursing because all the things nurses are educated in currently developed over time. Example my sister was a diploma nurse who graduated in the 60's in Milwaukee,Wi. Even then doctors were still doing assessments, foley insertions, NG's, phlebotomy... Nursing was educated progressively with these skills and more. Current example; Nursing in many institutions does the complete physical exam,research,run codes, epilepsy monitoring, normal pressure hydrocephalus and the list goes on. It is not demeaning what she did just showing the progression over time as a science.

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GrnTea, have I told you lately that you rock? :D

GrnTea DOES rock.

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