Drstrangelove88

Yeah that's awesome news! It's nice to know. I have no problem working in long term care either honestly. I just want to rest assured that (god forbid something happens and I don't get this all powerful BSN) I will still have options.

Unfortunately this is my only option for right now based on my situation. I would definitely do an accelerated bsn but the only program would require me to quit my job therefore having bills to pay, losing the tuition reimbursement, and not having the "In" that I do now and I literally just talked to guy that graduated last week from an ADN program and they offered him a job on my floor 3 weeks ago. He is a tech like me. So this way I can go to school and work full time because all of the lecture material is taught online and all but guarantee I'll be hired on when I graduate then after I get in the swing of working as an rn with my adn degree I can worry about completing the bsn.

I understand I'm simply being hypothetical. For now, based in my situation, I feel it is definitely best to do the ADN and start working as a nurse and getting even more experience. Then, after I'm making money (because as I've learned there is not a significant pay difference between degrees) I can get my BSN online and I will most likely have most of those classes done from previous degrees. Logically I have a feeling it will take much more than even just a few years to implement closing schools/ridding of every single RN job in the country. I work at a large hospital and they actively hire (daily) ADN nurses and they work as charge and we have many in administration so while I do think you're correct about it all being BSN in the future, I also think that it will take a very long time to implement especially considering there is not even a difference in their pay yet...

As I said before I work with hundreds of ADN prepared nurses and there are hundreds of schools offering associates degrees. You're saying that they will all be fired and all of those schools shut down in my lifetime? The question is; will there still be jobs *even outside of the hospital, at ALL* for ADN prepared nurses?

Thank you all for your feedback! The reason I am choosing to get my ADN first is because I found a program that I can start right away, everything is online except clinical/lab so I can work full time and pay bills, and I have well over half of the curriculum accounted for. I could double my salary and then some in less than a year if I go this route. There is only one school with an accelerated BSN program and it would require me to quit my job (therefore not be able to utilize tuition reimbursement) and it is a much more expensive route. This is literally the best option. I can work full time and attend school and utilize tuition reimbursement all while continuing to gain hospital experience. I can always do an RN to BSN online program down the road and at least I will be making nurse money rather than tech money if you catch my drift.

Yeah you're right that's what I meant. Also, I was simply being hypothetical. I definitely might go back I was just saying is it really the end of the world if I opted not.

Hello all. I went to college on a wrestling scholarship and was originally in nursing school and made it to my ped/ob clinical rotation when my commitment to my NCAA division 1 scholarship became too much to handle on top of nursing school so I decided to change my major to something relevant to the courses I had already take. I finished my bachelors in exercise physiology and want nothing to do with it now especially because there are no jobs. I have recently decided to start school back up in September to obtain my associates degree in nursing. I have a job as an MST on a med/surg floor in a large hospital and well over half of the 50+ nurses I see each day have their associates degree. I was wondering others opinions on this. I will only need 1 year to finish up because I have so much of the coursework done from my bachelors. I feel like I'm in a great position because I'm already getting great experience working in a large hospital that hires internally and hires ADN prepared nurses. Then there's the dreaded ADN vs. BSN ugh. Here is a question. Lets say I utterly refuse to get my BSN later in life. Will I just not have a job at all as a nurse? Are they really going to do away with every associate nursing schoo/program? I am not talking about only in the hospital I'm talking about getting a job anywhere. The way people act on these forums it seems as if the millions of ADNs will not be able to work without a BSN which I find very hard to believe on top of the fact that they are going to have to shut down hundreds of schools/programs. What about nursing homes? Home health? Is it really reasonable to think that every single nursing job in the near future will only be for BSN prepared nurses? It just seems a bit improbable and frankly impossible. As I said I work with literally hundreds of BSN prepared nurses. Feedback please!