i have a question

[kjseam]

I was reading this book and it said that RN's with an ADN degree is an assistant to RN's with their BSN. Is this true?

Thanks for your help.

:kiss

[linco]

Hi! I have never heard that an ADN is an assistant to a BSN!

I am an ADN and it means that I am an RN, just at a BSN is an RN.

When I was going to go back to get my nurse practitioners license (which I never did), they were going to give me 250 extra credits because our ADN program was superior to their BSN program year for year. Sooooo. I believe that an RN is an RN. The only place it seems to matter is in the government positions, as a BSN receives the managerial positions. I have been a Supervisor of a Home Health Agency, not to mention a handful of other jobs, some manager positions, some not. So go for your ADN degree, you can always add to it later if you so desire.

Linda RN

Oregon:)

[renerian, BSN, RN]

If things keep going the way that certain people would like it to it may be in the future the ADN works under a BSN. I have read some articles on this possibly being a way the future would go. I can't see it come to be though since we are so short of nurses.

susan/renerian

[kjseam]

Its a book about nursing schools called NURSING SCHOOL AND ALLIED HEALTH ENTRANCE EXAMS. Here is the quote that I read

"The rapidly moving trend in nursing today is to license two levels of nursing for entry into the professional services. The assistant level will be represented by graduates of the associate degree nursing porgrams: the professional level by graduates of the baccalaureate nursing programs."

So I am just not reading this right?

[Vsummer1]

It sounds like you are reading it right, but it is a future thing. And I don't see that future coming to pass any time soon!

Right now, there is only one NCLEX RN exam which both ADN and BSN take to obtain the same license.