I Just Graduated--I won't be going back!

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I just graduated from a very tough ADN program, and the instructors, even at the pinning, were telling us how we need to advance our education. Hogwash!

Surely, I will get nationally certified (CCRN, RNC or something). Surely, I will do continuing education and read nursing magazines and books (I do that now). But I will never go back to school. Not for a BSN, not ever. I have a B.Sc. in Liberal Arts where I specialized in psychology and sociology. In addition, I also took loads of literature and English classes. I think that degree and my ADN make me a very educated person. I will not jump though another educational hoop because academians think I should.

In fact, I've already been hired, and I haven't even passed NCLEX yet--at the hospital and floor that is my very first choice no less! (an ICU step-down cardiology floor at a large county hospital). No one can tell me I need a BSN. What I need is to be a staff nurse until I'm 70. I need to write books about monistic nursing, and I need to learn to paint dog portraits and seascapes really well, so I can supplement my social security income when I leave nursing. But a BSN? Homey don't play that.

The Monist

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Congrats on Graduating! I think the problem is less and less people are going on for further degrees to teach. I know at my ADN program there is a waiting list because there simply are not enough Nurses with a higher degree to teach. On top of that, the shortage, burnout, and retirement. In my entrance interview, they were practically begging me to go on for a Master's to teach. Congrats again!

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

hooboy here we go again.

by the way, congratulations on your graduation!!!

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Specializes in Rehab, Step-down,Tele,Hospice.

Ditto Monist.

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Sigh... Congrats on graduating...

I hope you don't mean this to be as insulting as it sounds...

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Sigh... Congrats on graduating...

I hope you don't mean this to be as insulting as it sounds...

Meh, ditto that.

Congratulations on graduating, at any rate.

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Dang it! I'm not going back to school either...I think.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Congrats on graduating. I'm hoping you're just blowing off steam! Believe me, sweetie - it is one very rare person who can do staff nursing until they are 70!!! Options come to those with a degree. Good luck and have fun!

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Congratulations on your degrees. The world is your oyster.

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Monist=====never. Never Say Never---my Neice Said That And She Is Now Finishing Up Her Masters

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I said that too........then went back and hold a second degree........That attitude will take you nowhere......and life goes on.

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That attitude will take you no where. I too said I would never go back and lo and behold I went back and now hold a second degree. Go figure.

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