Stay as a FT LPN or quit to attend my BSN FT??

[NurseCCNY]

Wondering if you could shed some light.

I am a ADN new grad who has been a LPN for 3 yrs. Although I have received by RN license, I currently work as a LPN. I did my LPN in 10mo while working PT w/o any problems, and worked full time as an LPN to get my RN which I completed in 1yr. I am currently looking for RN jobs (anything; PT, FT, PD). I thought that my LPN would hold weight as far as experience, but I'm being told by most Nurse Managers that my LPN experience is basically "useless". With the job market being so slow and the BSN being the minimum requirement for most institutions, I am going back to school to obtain my BSN (which I've already been accepted into two) but I just don't know how. I feel compelled to resign from my LPN position to do my BSN full time, with the hopes that when I graduated in May 2012, I would be eligible for better positions since I will meet the minimum requirements. While in school, I can work PT or PD just to get my foot in the door (any door). My family is strongly against this idea b/c I work for the city (who has awesome benefits) and they think I will be insane to quit a FT LPN to work PD/PT as a RN and go to school FT for my BSN. Just not sure what to do. Work as an LPN FT and attend my BSN PT to graduate as a BSN with no RN experience -OR- resign as an LPN, do my BSN FT and work PT/PD so I can get some experience as an RN? Time is $$ and money is no object, not because I am rich, but b/c too much time has been wasted doing something that works out to be useless.

Any words of advise?

[jammin246RN]

Education is always worthwhile.... however the economy is picking up and once this happens there will be another nursing shortage.... most likely worse then the last. In every institution I have worked BSN, ADN, Diploma all paid the same (BSN may pay 0.50/hr more). BSNs are having no easier time of getting a job then ADNs. A hospital will hire a ADN with 2yrs of experience over a new grad BSN every day of the week. Many hospitals in missouri at least offer experience for LPN. For example one facility offers a 5:4 conversion for lpn to RN experience. Other facilities offer 2:1. Experience as an LPN is experience as a nurse albeit a Lowest Paid Nurse.... but a nurse all the same. If I were in your shoes I would go for the BSN part time while searching for RN jobs, and keeping my full time LPN position.