MobetterRN2

Its not where you live, but how you live. I believe that variety is a wonderful thing for all of us, especially nurses. I lived in the country, the mountains and Chicago. I was born and raised here. No place on earth is better than the other, as I said its HOW you live. Don't limit yourself, when you come here, make friends, go places and have fun. You will get a ton of nursing experience here and the pay depends on experience and where you go. Teaching hospitals pay okay, but the experience is worth a million!! Good luck!

I am an Associate Degree Nurse and and a darn good one. I attempted to pursue my BSN but I found it VERY expensive and time consuming and that my BSN counterparts were coming out making in my State (Illinois) only $.50 more than the new grad ADN. I make more than the new grad BSNs due to experience and we do the same work on the floor (Medical surgical-ICU). Patients are more concerned about you giving their insulin injection correctly and to give them the correct blood pressure medication. The education part is a given to them or you would not be working as an RN. True most higher education nurses are doing administrative work, but if everybody decided to do this, who will take care of the bedside part? I am for people more than paperwork.

There are people who do not have even one year of college that know how to converse with others. I know several. ( Housekeepers, Diet aides, volunteers at the hosptial, laundry workers, etc.) I know it is your opinion, but I think you better be careful. You may insult someone at your place of work. Can you tell I have an ADN or BSN by the way I am writing this reply?

LPNs are an asset to the medical profession. They are the RN's right hand in patient care. I work in a Subacute rehabilitation unit in a hospital and there are LPNs working with me. Although there are certain tasks that are beyond the scope of the LPN here (hanging blood, Central lines, etc.,) They are part of the team. I used to be an LPN. I became an RN because there was a threat of the "phasing out" in the eighties too. But it never materialized. good luck Ms.C