Med Tech to RN

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I currently have a Bachelors as a Medical Technologist. I am interested in becoming an RN. I would like to get my BSN. Im not sure the best way to go about this. Ive heard of bridge programs for medics --> BSN but not Med Tech to BSN. I could go back and get a 2 year RN, but Seems kind of silly to me to give up a job with a bachelors to get a job that requires an associates.

Has anyone ever been a Med Tech or maybe something else medical related and then gone the BSN route. how did you do it? and how long did it take?

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

Moved to pre nursing student forum. Since you have a bachelors you can look at ABSN ( accelerated BS in Nursing) programs designed for those who have a non-nursing bachelors degree. I suspect with the little I know about a BS in med tech you may have very few pre-/co- reqs to take and if nothing else you will definitely be at an advantage with lab value interpretation/understanding (a difficult concept for many nurses & nursing students but once understood it makes a huge difference in understanding pathophysiology of diseases and conditions). Good luck!

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I worked as a med tech and the only thing it was helpful for was that all my prerequisites were done to get to nursing school, as well as my general studies that would have been required in nursing school (history, sociology, etc.). It took me 3 years part-time to finish with my BSN, which worked for me because I was able to work full-time as a med. tech throughout school. Like the previous poster mentioned you could probably do an accelerated program and be done in a year. I think in some ways my previous experience was helpful to me (lab values, specimen requirements and collection, time management and delegation). Of course it's very different but I personally think it helped a lot.

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Did your clinical chemistry classes transfer?

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