"Don't waste your time getting your BSN..."

[HeartsOpenWide]

People are always trying to tell me that I am going to waste my time by not stopping after getting my ASN. They say that getting your BSN just gets you management positions and that it does not pay more. I am going for my masters so I can be a CNM, so I have to have my BSN anyway but, how could it be true that a person with a BSN gets the same as a person with a ASN? (Aside from the fact that working in different dept can make a difference)

[karenTRN]

ADN = Associate Degree, Nursing

a 2 yr degree vs a 4 yr

[BabyCatchr, ADN, ASN, RN]

oops, sorry, I saw that I replied to a very old post, so this may be redundant:

That would be ONLY after you have completed all the prereqs (which constitute half the program) and hold previous nursing experience as an RN. There is no "easy" button.

And let's face it, a 2 yr RN really is more like 3 to 3.5 years once you add the prereqs/coreqs. So some may want to just get the BSN since there's not that much difference.

I think I've read some accelerated BSN programs are only 12 months. :uhoh21: