level of difficulty 2nd degree BSN program vs ADN

[Dino]

I am accepted to both, I do have intentions of getting masters at at some point, or CRNA. I do obviously holg a BS in biology, and some graduate courses in the sciences. Knowing most masters programs in nursing require at least 3.0 gpa, does anyone know how much more difficult a 12 month 2nd degree BSN program is vs a 23 month ADN program which the pace is slower due to greater time period. In other words has or does anyone know how hard it would be to get at least 3.0 in 2nd degree program which lasts only 12 months?

[PANurseRN1]

Nursing Shortage? Yeah so they say but everytime I walk by a nursing station I can't rightly say that I see any dramatic shortage of people hanging around.. sorry I know that's probably not fair but my wife has been in health care for years and years and years... and I've been around and some of it is TRUE and some of it is " FICTION"

Let me see if I understand this.

Based on your casual observation as a non-nurse walking past a nurses' station, you see several people and deduce that there is no nursing shortage. Do you know for a fact that all of those people were nurses? As in "real nurses" (LPNs/RNs)? For all you know, they could have been housekeeping staff, Bio-Med, UCs, aides, heck, any old Tom, Dick or Harry these days for that matter. Just because there are a lot of people at a nurses' station does not=good staffing.

Your wife has "years and years and years in health care." In what capacity? As a nurse? Because if she's not a nurse, again, neither of you can really speak to staffing issues of nurses since neither of you would know what nurses need.

I noticed the at the end of your post. I suppose that was to indicate that what you wrote was intended to be somewhat humorous. Please know that for those of us who really are nurses, understaffing is not a laughing matter, something you will become painfully aware of should you become a nurse yourself.