I am an RN who is working on BSN, I will be done in May of 2012. I am working in LTC full time, two days a week as charge nurse, three days a week as bridge nurse ( helping out the charge from 11-2 and doing a med pass from 2-7). I am really starting to wonder if all this work I am putting into my education is really going to pay off in the end?
I was not able to land a job in the local hospital ( was told my high confidence level comes across as being unteachable) and with the economy is such sad shape, am I just burying myself in debt for a glorified Med aid job?
I get a mixed bag of advice from local nurses and managers about it. Of course the managers will say it is worth it, the nurses I talk to who don't have their BSN, say it don't matter and those who do have their BSN are iffy. ARG. What happend to a higher education being a good thing?
