WHat's your plan after RN BSN?

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  1. WHAT'S YOUR PLAN AFTER RN BSN?

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      GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND STUDY ANOTHER COURSE
    • 12
      JUST WAIT AND SEE, PLAN AFTER 5 YRS
    • 28
      BE A NURSE PRACTITIONER
    • 2
      BE A NURSE ANESTHETIST
    • 16
      I DONT KNOW

63 members have participated

Im just wondering what would you do? whats next?

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Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.

What about the option of being "just a nurse"???

This is my second career, and I want to be a NURSE, not an anesthetist, not a practitioner, not an educator. I want to be a nurse. Full stop.

ETA: I don't think a nurse is "just" a nurse.... that's why the whole phrase is in quotes.

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

For me I want a terminal degree in my field so it's a DNP. I'm certainly glad others want to stop at being a nurse, but even APRNs are nurses so that "just a nurse comment" is for the birds. Stop your education where you feel comfortable. Practice where you feel comfortable. It seems there are some that find it a waste to think past the BSN. At the end of the day what makes you happy? For me, it's not being a bedside nurse.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

DNP or PhD or possibly MPH. Right now I'm working on MSN in management, which wasn't an option in your poll.

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

I plan to relax instead of study during my off hours.

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Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.
For me I want a terminal degree in my field so it's a DNP. I'm certainly glad others want to stop at being a nurse, but even APRNs are nurses so that "just a nurse comment" is for the birds. Stop your education where you feel comfortable. Practice where you feel comfortable. It seems there are some that find it a waste to think past the BSN. At the end of the day what makes you happy? For me, it's not being a bedside nurse.

I had a whole big long post written in response to this, but I decided that instead I will just state that I feel sorry for your four kids.

Obviously, unless they go to graduate school, you won't see them as important, functional, valuable members of society. :rolleyes:

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I had a whole big long post written in response to this, but I decided that instead I will just state that I feel sorry for your four kids.

Obviously, unless they go to graduate school, you won't see them as important, functional, valuable members of society. :rolleyes:

Your response makes no sense and carries literally nothing against her kids. She is saying do whatever makes you happy, many enjoy being by the bedside and if that's you, kudos. Her niche is to go further. Post your big long post please. Sounds like you got eagerly butt hurt before digesting her statement.

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Specializes in L&D.

I am doing my BSN now and I voted NP, although it will be CNM. I'm still somewhat undecided about it, but it's what I will do if I do decide to get my masters.

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Specializes in school nurse.

...just finished an RN to BSN program. After being exposed to even more of the silliness that is "nursing theory" I'd have to say any grad program would be non-nursing. Healthcare Management, maybe?

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I voted nurse practitioner because that is what I did. I went in to nursing as a second career only to be a NP. I had a wonderful mentor and guide who knew that is what I wanted and she guided me to it. I lost her last year and have since found a new mentor who is encouraging me to get my PhD. I love research and have many grants applications already submitted.

I honestly do not understand why nurses who do not want to attain higher degrees have to try and knockdown those that do. It isn't a competition. It's a choice. I know I would not be happy as a nurse "at the bedside" I wanted some control and in mental health being a NP does give that control and variety I am looking for.

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I had a whole big long post written in response to this, but I decided that instead I will just state that I feel sorry for your four kids.

Obviously, unless they go to graduate school, you won't see them as important, functional, valuable members of society. :rolleyes:

I'm not sure what mom to 4 wrote that made you arrive at this conclusion?

[stop your education where you feel comfortable. Practice where you feel comfortable. At the end of the day what makes you happy?/QUOTE]

I'm reading something entirely different. Nowhere does it say that you aren't important or a valuable member to society if you don't pursue a higher degree.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
Your response makes no sense and carries literally nothing against her kids. She is saying do whatever makes you happy, many enjoy being by the bedside and if that's you, kudos. Her niche is to go further. Post your big long post please. Sounds like you got eagerly butt hurt before digesting her statement.

My semi retirement plan; community educator/nurse educator and NP. But that's after putting more years at the bedside...got my own roadmap, and I want to contribute to the profession as much as possible. :yes:

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