Professional Nurse: BSN VS ADN... need help...

[weirdRN]

Hi,

I am working on an assignment for school. I am in my last semester of an ADN program.

The assignment is to think about my definition of what a Professional Nurse is and how the current nursing image is impacting it.

I was wondering what everyone thought of BSN and ADN educations. The reason I ask is that I found an ancient article on professional nursing that stated that an ADN is a technical Nurse and the BSN is the professional Nurse. I thought, what does it matter? both are held to the same standards of practice, the same workload, responsibilities ect. How can one be professional and one just be technical?

I would appreciate any thoughts on this as it will enhance my response assignment.

Thanks

Kristie

I do not understand how the two are different, except that the BSN has more stuff for community based nursing in it and the ADN is focused mostly on Hospital based nursing.

[hezza]

That's an unsupportable assertion. Just for starters, I don't have a four year institution within a reasonable distance to my home, and at 52 my husband would be quite perturbed if I told him I was off to live in the dorms. Not to mention the teeny boppers who would just die at having, you know, gramma living there.

As it stands now, an ADN and passing the NCLEX are what are required for entry into nursing. Statements about ADNs hurting the image of the profession are divisive and a slap in the face to your hard-working and well-educated brothers and sisters.

Change the law if you sincerely believe what you are saying - and I have no reason to doubt that you do - but please refrain from treating your peers so disrespectfully.

You just said what I wanted to say. I don't have any BSN programs where I live, I'm gonna have to go to a community college... it doesn't mean I don't want education. I do. I just can't afford it and can't really move now so I can go to a 4 year program; and I think it's relevant to the conversation because I think a lot of people are in our shoes. It doesn't mean we don't care about education or we wouldn't make good nurses.