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I really don't want to go back.
brandy1017, ASN, RN
2,910 Posts
I almost graduated with a BA Politics/History back in the day, eons ago. But decided to go into nursing and got an ADN thru a private college. It would be a lot easier to just finish the BA vs get a BSN.
I honestly don't see the importance of either in my situation. Most BA's are little more than a certificate, college seems to be little more than a finishing school for most people. Just to say yes I've been to college choose me, here's my diploma.
Also a BSN would do nothing to improve my finances and if I had the time and money I would have just done NP and looked for an ADN to NP program. The time it would take to get a BSN to then do an NP is just too much wasted time and money.
Plus I really don't want to have to go thru clinicals again, esp for a BSN. Obviously if you're doing NP clinicals are necessary just like a doctors residency. But why for BSN when you are already working as a nurse and have plenty of experience in the field!
We used to have a fairly good reimbursement, $4,000/yr, but that's been cut to $2,000/yr and then they added that if you had any writeup you could not get reimbursement. Say you forget one of the many education things that crop of that month and our educator will make sure to ding you with a little write up over the most trivial thing. So I suppose that would disqualify you for tuition reimbursement, yet another disincentive to go back to school.
We had a poor CNA who went back to school for PT tech, the hospital paid her schooling then decided she wasn't qualified, hadn't been there quite a year so they were demanding the money back! She ended up quitting and working elsewhere.
Does anyone else have this ban on tuition reimbursement for a writeup in your file. It's fairly new to us, but every since we became part of a major multi-state non profit healthcare organization its been one cutback after another in benefits, pay, raises, everything. Never ending nickel and diming you to death!
In most hospitals you don't get paid more for a BSN. Of course now that there are so many new nursing grads and magnet status holabulee they are pushing for a BSN if they have a choice. But I know plenty of ADN's who've been able to get hospital jobs at least in my area.
Many people on this site already have BA's in other field's and decide to go into nursing because they couldn't get a decent paying job. As far as helping people, there our a lot less stressful ways to do that than nursing. You could just volunteer with the group or people you'd like to help and then you'd have control of your time and energy and not be run ragged like you do in the hospital system today!
Sure I've made a difference, saved lives, met wonderful people; but the wear and tear on my body and mind is not worth what I'm put through because the hospital wants to save money at all of our expense!