michaelvgrigsby

In the USA anything can be legislated. The requirement to be a BSN serves no purpose other than to divide the ranks of nursing professionals. Seems to me that people who make up these silly rules just want to look down their pompus noses at those they believe are less intelligent than they are.

I am wondering if anyone can rationally explain what makes a 25 years RN Veteran who has a BS in another field and a MA in another field less qualifed than a new grad with a BSN or even a 5 year Vet with a BSN. My position is any BS or MA will prepare a person to research and write white pages as well as manage other.

I have been a RN since 1989, graduated with a ASN. Since that time I worked in ICU, Open heart surgery, PICU, Med/Surg and Behavioral Health. I have had the pleasure to have worked as a Nurse Executive only to be told after 25 years to get a BSN. I have a BS in Public Policy and Organizational Leadership and Master of Arts in Theology/Counseling. I asked my employee why after working 13 years a their Executive Nurse on Med/Surg/Peds that they thought I needed a BSN. No answer just demands or lose my job. I told them to stuff it! At 57 I was not going back to school for a BSN when it would only achieve increasing my debt ratio. Since then I haven't been able to hire on anywhere but a Nursing Home. Let me tell you it is a blessing to work in geriatrics, yet the BSN's that work there are clueless, needing alot of training and retraining which I don't mind doing. It just saddens me that at the end of my career Nursing still has its quirks like they did in the 80's. Remember the period when medical assistants where hired to work in ICUs? That fiasco lasted less then a year. God bless all of you who have had to face this new fiasco of BSN only apply. I am wondering who agrees with BSN only need to apply?

grats!

After living a life in darkness and despair, I turned to a career in Nursing at the age of 29, because I wanted to help people. Anyway to make a long story short, this world is made up of people who see themselves as superior to everyone. If you make a mistake, you are ostracized by people who have never made a mistake or at least have not been caught. Jobs may come, but they soon release you because of your history. Because of your history, everything is magnified in the little minds of the power hungry people. So consider it a blessing to be fired or not even get hired by these people. There will come a day that you will find a job and it will be rewarding. How do I know this. I have lived in this reality for the past 25 years in my Nursing career. I have learned there is always someone who will attempt to "crap on your toothbrush." I have tried suicide twice because of this, yet only to be stopped by my conscience. Betters days have come with bad days in between, but the reality of this world is simple: Good vs Evil and those who think they are Good are really Evil in their intentions. So I decided after my last suicide attempt to forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who do not. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.