Powernick50

Let me know when you find out! I'm in this same boat! Baby on the way and wife would have to somehow support us for 1 year...kind of scary... Thinking of a 7 quarter ADN program at CSCC..but I'd really like to just do the BSN!

Greetings again, I have indeed shadow'ed PAs. I didn't go to medical school because my income is used to help my sick relatives. I cannot afford to move away and not get paid as well. I worked full time at Kroger's during undergrad...and was paid during graduate school (In columbus..same city). ADN I think I can work just fine for now and do night classes... PA would be great..but I would lose income during the 2 years of schooling..and my pre-reqs are getting old and would have to retake some of them.. PA schools often require direct patient contact hours...sometime's upwards of 1000-2000. It would seem to me that becoming a RN through ADN part time..working while doing that..and then after receiving an RN working making decent money and gathering more Patient care hours.

*** yes you are correct. nursing degree are full of fluff, with the possible exception of associates of applied science in nursing degrees. even the associates of arts in nursing is full fo fluff. my question this. is a person with so much non nursing education going to be happy doing such a blue collar job that requires so much hard physicial labor? will you feel adiquatly compenstated? in many areas new rns start at around $20 and hour. pretty good i think for a graduate fo a two year program but for all that education? nps make $70-$80k or maybe less in some areas. certainly the protential of much greater compensation is there. i make well over $100k with an associates degree but i had to move twice, once half way across the country, to do it. greetings, first of all thank you for all the comments. i am really not trying to yank your chain. much as i have an outside bias concerning the nursing profession (which i am attempting to remedy by posting here!) you may have a bias concerning my profession and/or degree. you see i am a lab manager at children's hospital. i currently make 16.35 an hour (ohio), and i am 28 years old. i have been offered a position at my local kroger starting at 17.02 an hour (with overtime and better benefits). you can now see my issue. i actually enjoy hard labor...never really wanted to go to college either, however i was the only one in my family to graduate college (very poor rural area) because i recieved a full scholarship, as well as entrance into osu graduate school...the jobs aren't there and i almost commmited the death-by-ph.d act. also i went to a liberal art's college that did not offer b.s in biology...even in premed. my reasons for nursing are honest. i am immobile due to sick relatives...so i must stay in my area..i cannot move cross country for a job. i enjoy helping and caring for people (this is not a canned response..but real). i know that i can find a good job with decent pay..my work here in the lab is based off rapidly detorating nih funding... i have a child on the way...the list goes on.. at any rate. i appreciate all the help and advice offered.

HouTX, Apparently it must be different. Hence the requirement of only 1 semester between an ADN to NP If you have a B.A. Which is what I'm basing my assumption on. This apparently is fairly common among NP school's I've seen. I was curious about nursing management positions ETC...in fact I've also just read that grabbing an MSN without a BSN is also a possibility. Also, Pre-Medicine courses (At least at my undergraduate) were a degree higher than the nursing courses. I'd say that at least looking at the syllabi that a BSN had quite a bit of fluff coursework, and when you distilled it down to additional nursing coursework there is not a significant difference.

Greetings all, I am debating between an ADN and a BSN (I am considering a new career path, Ph.D work was abysmal and unfulfilling). My real main question comes from the advancement in the nursing career with an ADN but with my M.S and B.A. Does the advancement come from having the BSN specifically...or more of just having a Bachelors degree? I am thinking of a Nurse Practitioner down the road as well. (I see Bridge ADN to NP programs) Thoughts?