Really, I don't know where they get their info from..

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So my sister today was telling me that some girls in her Chem class were talking about transferring to a university to complete their BSN instead of their ADN. Their reason was because BSN nurses make 10-15 dollars more than ADN nurses. Complete and utter b.s. I have never known BSN nurses who just graduated from school to make more than an ADN grad. They have always made the same from what I know. If there was a difference in pay, it wasn't that much. I have worked with a nurse who graduated from Perdue and we hired in at the same time and made the same amount of money. Honestly, where do these people get their info from?

What really kills me are people who think nurses bring home a fat paycheck..when I tell my friends that I'm not making an exceptional money they dont believe me and say that once they are done with RN school they will be making like 4000 per month ok...yes maybe you will while doing overtime,working nights and dont forget about taxes!!!

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What really kills me are people who think nurses bring home a fat paycheck..when I tell my friends that I'm not making an exceptional money they dont believe me and say that once they are done with RN school they will be making like 4000 per month ok...yes maybe you will while doing overtime,working nights and dont forget about taxes!!!

blackhearted, that is a salary a new grad could start with...easily.

heck, that's $25/hr (based on 40 hr week)...

i am talking about gross salaries.

leslie

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So my sister today was telling me that some girls in her Chem class were talking about transferring to a university to complete their BSN instead of their ADN. Their reason was because BSN nurses make 10-15 dollars more than ADN nurses. Complete and utter b.s. I have never known BSN nurses who just graduated from school to make more than an ADN grad. They have always made the same from what I know. If there was a difference in pay, it wasn't that much. I have worked with a nurse who graduated from Perdue and we hired in at the same time and made the same amount of money. Honestly, where do these people get their info from?

Are you sure it's not 10-15 dollars more a year than ADN nurses?

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.
Are you sure it's not 10-15 dollars more a year than ADN nurses?

They told my sister 10-15 dollars per hour more.

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, Emergency, SAFE.

This'll be good for them to go on their interviews post graduation...asking for $10-$15 more dollars than other new grads. Im sure theyll be called back right away....:p

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
At my facility they may get $1/hr, but they are able to move up higher. We have 4 levels and you can't get to 3 or 4 without a BSN. But we are also a magnet hospital.

*** I hear this a lot about Magnet. I work at a Magnet hospital. One of three in the whole state. We do not have BSN preferred on our job listings. As far as I can tell there is no preference for BSN nurses outside our SICU. We have a four step clinical ladder and no BSN is required to achieve any step. We have a 7 month Nurse Residency for new grads going into SICU, CCU, PACU, ER, & PICU. Except for SICU I can't tell any preference for BSN grads. The SICU is the exception. We do not hire new grad BSN prepared RNs into the Nurse Residency for the SICU. It doesn't say that anywhere but they are not hired. ADN new grads only.

The only hospital in the state I have noticed "BSN prefered" on their job listings is the state university hospital and they are not Magnet. I have never heard of any hospital in this state (Wisconsin) paying BSN prepared RNs any more than non BSN RNs. Maybe there are some but I never heard of it.

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Specializes in Critical Care.
They told my sister 10-15 dollars per hour more.

Maybe this is prophecy!!! lol

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Maybe they got their info from the college who is trying to recruit them for the BSN program? ;)

Hahaha!! That's priceless!!. This kind of misinformation develops like the "telephone" game you might have played as a kid. The first student says, "BSN's make $1.00/hr more" . . . then pssst, pssst, pssst . . . passed on twenty times . . . now it's "BSN's make $10 - $15/hr more than ADN's"!!:D

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At the hospital I work at the BSN only get 45 cents more an hr than RNs, Some places vary. The only way a BSN is going to make more is if you move up to management of some kind.

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Specializes in Cardiac ICU.

Where are they getting their information from? Let me see...probably from someone who is neither an ADN or BSN. Tell them that to be able to do well in nursing school, they must not be so gullible.

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Maybe they got their information from the Truth Fairy. :D

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I heard an advertisement on the radio that listed similar BS about the advantages of a BSN over an ADN.

There was a supposed "nurse" talking about how ever since she got her BSN she no longer has to work the night shift and makes more then double what she used to be making!

yeah.....sure you do.

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