Hello, I'm finishing up my ADN program in December and the professor has given us a semi-crazy assignment. Can a reasonably new BSN graduate give me a hand with this? Here's what I'm tasked with, and no, I don't fully understand it either:
Interview a new nurse who attended a nursing program different from your own (he or she may be a generic BSN graduate). Identify aspects of the program that may be considered differentiated practice due to the degree earned.
For my BSN we had to go to two different colleges in two different cities! One college was for the liberal arts component of the bachelor's degree. The other was a Nursing College where we did all of our nursing classes and clinicals from. Oh and get this, some days we had classes at both colleges with no more than 30 min to get to other college, find parking and get to class across a huge campus (ya right)- which meant we were always late and in trouble. Oh and colleges were not linked in any way, so we had to learn how to navigate two college systems, emails, classes, and just figuring out where the heck we were supposed to be on what day. What a total nightmare it was most of the time.
And yes, my graduating class was the last class to go through this. Supposedly they changed the program after we graduated because it was just too confusing....Hello!
I graduate in 2 weeks, so I guess I'm close enough to being a new BSN. Hmm, that is an odd question. As far as I know, outside of advancement up the career ladder, ADN vs BSN doesn't matter (even in patient assignments). I know at most of the hospitals around me, there isn't a pay diff or anything like that, and we all care for the same patients at whatever level of acuity they are at. My brother is applying to an ADN program soon, and when we've compared programs the diffs I've seen are that I have more culture classwork, as well as nursing courses in community health, leadership, and research that he won't have. My program began clinicals the second week of the program, so there wasn't any difference there (I know some BSN programs don't jump into clinicals right away). I'm pretty sure we both have to take stats, 2 semesters of A/P, patho, pharm, micro, etc.
fiveofpeep
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we spend an entire 16 weeks in each general specialty including peds, critical care, and community health
we have to take pathophysiology, legal, community health, development, research, and leadership/management.
I hear our careplans (of about 20-30 pages each) are much longer than those for the ADN's
we spend our clinicals on 12hr shifts during the summer