Required By Work to Get BSN - Don't Want to Write Endless Papers

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Specializes in ER, PEDS, CASE MANAGEMENT.

I'm earning my RN to BSN through Aspen University. Yes, there are papers to write, but I'm learning so much! It's doable. I'm working full-time and have a 3.9 average! Aspen is affordable. $250/month.

I am doing my MSN at in Nsg leadership & Mgt right now. I am over half way thru. It is mostly papers. A few classes have tests and some have field assignments. You get a student mentor that follows you through school and each class assigns you a mentor to answer your questions. I haven't had any problems so far except there are no deadlines except the end of the 6 month semester so you have to be dedicated to make yourself do the work.

Absolutely demoralized by the need to get a BSN at 55 yrs old with over 30 years certified in my field. I have a bachelors in science and a ASN. It’s really insane that I have to spend my retirement funds just to be able to work!!

I took all but 3 classes for my bsn at UTA. No clinical hours as you could use your work experience to count. yes lots of paper writing.. The only thing holding me up is stats and I took it 3 times online with no luck..

Is no one else disturbed by the fact that experienced nurses are being forced to get BSNs to keep jobs they have been doing for years? Where are out unions and professional organizations on this? If they were truly representing the best interests of nurses, or for that matter patients, they would be defending us from this BS, not advocating it.

Well, the part of the country in which I've spent most of my career doesn't have unions. And most of the professional organizations in nursing are in favor of higher educational standards, AFAIK.

Specializes in Psych,LTC,.

Hi, my school accepted my community college credits, where applicable, over 25 years later. So keep your fingers crossed on that. For my BSN I went to a local college, and they had about half of it online. There were a lot of papers. I guess it depends on the school.I did like being able to have some face to face time with my teachers, which I think makes for a fuller experience. But everybody's different.

Don't know about the Unions, but I know the BONs WANT the higher degree because they think it will make Nursing a more prestigious position, and it would give more of a reason to be paid more.

Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
Seems that to be fair, established nurses without BSN should be offered incentives to pursue BSN. They should not be fired. Unions should press this point. Any new hires should be BSN only. Any experienced nurses who choose not to pursue BSN should be grandfathered in and allowed to keep working, except that there may be a pay differential to BSN RNs.

I agree with this-to a point... If there should be a "differential" to BSN RNs, it should be a yearly bonus or something like that; having a peer who may be a senior nurse make less or different amount of money because they don't have a BSN seems a little unfair-at least to me...not saying that's what you are saying, but I'm just looking at that idea and how it can be interpreted from other angles.

I could have written this exact post. Going to UTA was great but hard and I agree about the group projects. I quickly learned to take the lead because the one project I didn't was mediocre at best. Not being ugly but one woman turned in her plagerized part of a paper 10 hours before it was due that I then rewrote. Another guy said he was going out to ride his horse and he didn't care about the project. I was surprised and sad that they did not care what grade they got as long as they passed. If my name is on it, I want it to be the best I can do. Same goes for my job.

Specializes in kids.

I would add that along with the writing comes research and that adds breadth and depth to your knowledge base. You will learn more, you will become a better writer and overall become a different nurse with a different skillset and viewpoint.

I received my BSN thru . It is very affordable, you work independently, at your own pace and there is not or was not a lot of paper writing. It may be worth talking to a recruiter with them so they can explain the process better?

Of course there would be comparable spreadsheets to ensure the fairest application of a BSN bonus. Some ways around the potential disparity between senior RN's and new BSN's might be a step implementation of bonus, i.e. BSN bonus would begin after one year of full time employment, or a graduation in percentages over a longer period, say 5 years to achieve full BSN bonus or pay differential. And, senior RN's should be receiving some sort of longevity bonus, maybe in the tiered sense of step levels. Regardless, senior RN's should never be penalized monetarily by a salary decrease for not having a BSN, no pay decrease, ever.

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