How long do you wait from graduating nursing school to further your education?

[kyski]

I am just graduating nursing school with an associate degree this December and have heard from several different nurses to wait a little while before going on to my BSN because they see the new grads who go right into their BSN get really worn out, and then I have heard from other nurses to get right on getting my bachelors because going back to school after a break is hard! What would you recommend?

[rubato, ASN, RN]

Now. :)

[CT Pixie, BSN, RN]

I graduated with my associates in May 2013 and started my RN to BSN in October 2013. I was going to wait until I got a job that had tuition reimbursement. As the date of when my student loan repayment came closer, I enrolled to ward off the beginning of the payments. Best thing I did. As time went on I saw more and more job postings requiring BSN or 'BSN preferred' as well as many hospitals in my area mandating that within a certain period of time after being hired you needed to be enrolled in a BSN program and must have your BSN within a time frame of your hire date.

For me even that small amount of time away from school made it a little difficult to get back into school mode.