What would you do? AS or BSN

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I'm stuck, not sure which way I should go.

I currently only lack Statistics for 1 ASN degree seeking school and would have just 2 more years of nursing school for my ASN...

But for the BSN I lack History/Statistics/English Comp 2/Lit that is is.. Then I could go thru the BSN nursing program, about the same 2 1/2 years.

The only thing is that I would have to move my family, which my husband is ok with moving to the town over, it's over 1 hour drive to the University that I could get my BSN from.

SO which one would you do? ASN or BSN?

IF it meant moving your family, and rearranging everything in our lives for 2 1/2 years?

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I would do ASN. I chose ASN because I had the prereqs for it. I finished it in 2 years, and now I'm taking my BSN online while working and making RN pay. Had you known you wanted to be a nurse right out of high school, I'd definitely say go BSN immediately. But for those of us who only have ASN prereqs, I'd just go ahead and do that and do the BSN online at your own pace.

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it depends upon what your overall goals are. if you want to move up into a masters degree level then you need the BSN at some point - some schools have a "RN to BSN to MS" program.

personally as nursing is my second degree with went with another bachelor's as i want to move up to the mast's level in the shortest amt of time. cost is another things to consider - i am at a state school so it is not much more for me there than it would be at the local community college. :)

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it depends if hospitals are still hiring BSN's in your area. Where I live, most hospitals are only taking nurses with the BSN now, and phasing out the one's with their associates.

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it depends upon what your overall goals are. if you want to move up into a masters degree level then you need the BSN at some point - some schools have a "RN to BSN to MS" program.

personally as nursing is my second degree with went with another bachelor's as i want to move up to the mast's level in the shortest amt of time. cost is another things to consider - i am at a state school so it is not much more for me there than it would be at the local community college. :)

I agree with this. I want to get a masters, and taking a bridge will take almost as long as just knocking out the BSN general studies credits anyway for me, so I'm going the BSN route. If you're not going for a masters in the future, though, stick with AS.

Then again, if it is really going to be too much of a rearranging of life, getting your AS and then doing the bachelors stuff online would work too. I've been taking all of my non nursing stuff at a local community college and most of it has been online.

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