Janerivers

Once you have a solid clinical background, home health is awesome. It is perfect if you are independent, able to manage a caseload, are organized and understand how the effectively and expeditiously chart. It is a very satisfying, important, well paying and gratifying career. Hospitals are for task oriented nurses. Home care is for those who love teaching, collaboration and case management.

ADN's get theirs the second week of school. We took our prerequisite courses that BSN have to do in years one and two. I certainly don't know any nurses that have to take organic chem to get an RN. ADN s are in the field, in facilities, seeing, learning and doing. Used to be, before the economy tanked, that there were internships that could be applied for and potentially lead to a job. Now? Nurses have to pay for the same program, with no guarantee after completion. Nursing school itself is a boot camp...if you go the ADN route. Too many people are afraid of getting **** under their fingernails to do the hard work anyway. That's probably part of the rush to do a BSN and then an NP.

...well, at least they have experience. BSN is not the be all end all, Hun.

A BSN is B.S. Nursing! I was in the field with two years' experience while they were writing research papers on how to do APA format. That does NOT make for better nursing, kids. There should be a clinical pathway for those of us who want to work, and n ivory tower pathway for those who want to promote more schooling. Who says more education equals better nursing? The schools...hellooooo! ADNs of the world be proud..we have an RN that is identical to any RN and don't forget that. Can we help it if we were savvy enough to skip the statistics and research crap? This is all for the sake of schools getting more money and hospitals trying to get magnet status. Trust me, no one really gives a rat's behind about us, any of us. It's all about the dollar.

Hi there. I am an experienced registered nurse with tons of wound care success stories. I would like to know why one needs a BSN in order to work with WOCN"partners" to get certification. The partners don't require it, WOCN does. I am a highly skilled, experienced Registered Nurse, with identical licensure as a BSN and with a considerable amount of additional time in the field than a fresh faced BSN graduate. I was perfectly willing to pay my ten grand and would have been thrilled to have the certification, but I don't have my bull **** nursing degree. Why not? As an older new nurse, I saw no sense in spending another 20,000(at least) to be yet another BSN with nothing to differentiate myself professionally. What do statistics, research and paper writing have to do with the ability to perform this function? Frankly, I think it discriminating. There is no evidence that a BSN does a better job at wound healing than an ADN...and again I underscore the licensure is identical! I would have rocked and rolled the certification and made the organization proud...but why bother doing something with a group that supports discrimination? Shame on WOCN for cowtowing to the powers that be in those Ivory Towers and by taking advantage of a bad economy. Funny thing, I just had here nurses shadow me who are getting their BSN. One is unemployed and the other works in a nursing home. Oh, but that BSN sure will make a difference when they are done....NOT. Meanwhile, I will have ANOTHER two years of wound care experience that they do not. But you would take them. Discrimination is what it is.