chrisrad

I'm currently an ADN with 4 years hospital experience. Recently changed jobs to a neuro unit that I love working on. I have a full time night nurses job, two kids in teenage years (one is two years from college), husband, house, dishes, laundry - life in general. This is my second career and I love floor nursing but as I get older I may try to transition to Dr. office nursing work (I'm 43 and still have a lot of energy for the floor right now, don't plan to change that soon). Right now I'm taking one class toward prerequisites to the BSN program. I already felt like my work schedule and homelife were exhausting, now with one added class I feel stressed and almost paralysed, like I'm not able to focus on any thing as there are too many different directions. I don't know how so many other people do it with a full time job and kids and a full class load - I feel like I'm taking away from my family with just one class. I also would like to pursue nursing CE's that directly improve my effectiveness on my unit, not a history class just so I can get into a BSN program. I guess my question is this - Is my ADN going to become obsolete even with years of experience. I have no desire to pursue a management career, been there and done that in my last career. I became a nurse for the patient care, not the career ladder. Will I find myself out of work, downgraded and pushed out of hospital nursing like so many of the good LVN's I know simply because I do not have a BSN? At the rate I am going with classes I will be in my 50's before I get a BSN anyway and I really need to know if sacrificing my time to exercise is worth the degree. Please advise.