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Preparing to get my BSN

So,

I am fixing to get my BSN. I'm currently an LPN, and loving it. I am very worried. I need the increase in pay, and will get my BSN regardless. But I am scared.

I'm scared because I love working with my hands and legs. I love med pass, taking blood pressures, talking to people, stopping the bleeding, putting the resident on the toilet, running to the medical emergency, etc.

Do BSNs do this???

Is it all charting and busy work?

Do I have to be the DON?

What kind of jobs do BSNs do?

I am especially interested in mental health, corrections, and nursing home/dementia settings.

This is probably a stupid question...

Thanks for any answers!

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    If course they do. A lot of BSNs work in hospitals, corrections, nursing homes, etc. You can still do floor/bed side nursing & decline DON positions

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    Why do you phrase it like "BSNs" are a separate species? They are RNs who happen to have a bachelor's degree. Yes, it gives you more potential job mobility and opportunities, but there's no secret indoctrination ceremony in which you're taught a really cool handshake...?

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    I wish we had a cool handshake. ?

    I work bedside, inpatient pediatrics. I do all of the above.

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    This is a relief....?

    But wait!

    Are cool handshakes not allowed???

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    1 hour ago, Trampledunderfoot said:

    But wait!

    Are cool handshakes not allowed???

    ...only after you've NETYed your first nine new grads.

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    9 hours ago, Jedrnurse said:

    ...only after you've NETYed your first nine new grads.

    NETYed..? like a neti pot?! All i saw in my mind while reading this was new grads in a neti pot and a nurse pouring them in their nose ?

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    47 minutes ago, Lurkndmurk said:

    NETYed..? like a neti pot?! All i saw in my mind while reading this was new grads in a neti pot and a nurse pouring them in their nose ?

    Now THAT'S a Tim Burton movie scene...

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    On 11/22/2019 at 10:56 AM, Lurkndmurk said:

    NETYed..? like a neti pot?! All i saw in my mind while reading this was new grads in a neti pot and a nurse pouring them in their nose ?

    So I'll have to pour stuff up 9 (9!!!!) new grads noses, then get I'll get to secret handshake....?

    Why don't they advertise this on school websites?

    Probably because of the nursing shortage, don't want to scare anyone away ?

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    15 minutes ago, Trampledunderfoot said:

    So I'll have to pour stuff up 9 (9!!!!) new grads noses, then get I'll get to secret handshake....?

    Why don't they advertise this on school websites?

    Probably because of the nursing shortage, don't want to scare anyone away ?

    Yeah, the nursing shortage, about that. It was last seen hanging out with the Loch Ness monster...

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