LIA_A

About to open a can of worms here. (You can just skip this part) My roommate soul sister just got accepted into an ADN program and a traditional BSN program. The ADN program has a bridge affiliation with a state university and accepts direct transfers into its RN-BSN program upon NCLEX completion. The other program is your run of the mill traditional (slowly loose your hair/ get fat) major university nursing school program, that I attended. The end result is still a BSN, the ADN ends Fall 2020, BSN ends Spring 2021 and the RN-BSN ends Spring 2022... Yeah, yeah, yeah...new grad jobs, working while in school, done faster, finances...Blah blah...many pros & cons for both! She’ll still pass NCLEX and she’ll still be a good nurse. Either way, she’ll still pass NCLEX and she’ll still be a good nurse (way better nurse than me that for sure. She is also going to continue on to grad school (for some kinda ped psych ***). (Skip this too) Upon much research, my roommate did not find any data stating that the education that the RN-to-BSN receives is not equivocal to the traditional BSN education. However, she did find a dime a dozen RN-BSN and RN-MSN program advertised all over the country. I mean thousands!! Some RN-BSNs could even be done in 6mo if you wanted. Some didn't require “clinical or capstone.” Some online reviews even said it was the easiest thing they ever “paid” for. Others said that they passed tests using google, wrote bad papers and made-up final projects. One reviewer from a well known online school in the midwest stated, "I paid for my degree not really earned it, and now I am struggling in grad school because my BSN was MBS (major ***). Geez, where's the accreditation committee at? The more she researched it the more I was intrigued and this has now turned into a grad school research assignment nightmare that I deeply regret!!!!!!!! Regardless of the route and the educational institution’s name and stamp, once acquired all BSN diplomas hold the same weight. Whether it is from MIT or ITT-tech.com it DOESNT MATTER! (Ok, Start here: Here’s the can of worms I promised) Does it really not matter where you got your BSN from? Traditional BSN vs ADN-BSN are they really meeting the same standards? Are the assignments similar, is the rigor the same. By the way, this is nothing to do with nursing care!!!! (NCLEX has already proven the RN part it. If you passed then you met THE standards, but there's no NCLEX-B.S.) I am strictly looking at it from a scholarship perspective. Does an ADN-BSN give you any more tools or knowledge that you didn't have? Are all BSNs the same, are we all just as prepared for an MSN/DNP/Ph.D.? (I know it depends on the nurse and the program! Some programs are way better than others!). Do graduate schools take your BSN source into consideration when selecting candidates for their programs. Should they? They probably don't because Becky over here, in my advance patho class completed her RN-BSN on her lunch breaks using quizlet and grammarly (yep, she told). ADN-BSNs now in graduate-level programs I would like to hear from you. What was your experience in such programs? Did you feel prepared for grad school? Was your program legit and hard work, you probably know some Beckys does it make you mad? What do you recommend to do, the step-up ADN-BSN and then MSN+ route or is it better to just go balls deep straight into MSN? P.S. Sorry guys! I guess I'm just salty about my student loans, and the weight I gained but never lost, and my GPA. It's forever! I just want my best friend to make a good decision. Also, Becky said she was just kidding but I know she is not.