16 year old future Nurse,Help?

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Okay first of all I'd like to say thank you for taking time to read this,my question is will having my AA benefit and speed up getting my BSN? If so how? and if not what are the benefits .

Clarification: An AA is an Arts degree in nursing? I Googled it but got back American Airlines, hehe. But if it is a degree then it sounds like a lot of extra classes you don't need. My school only requires 34 credit hours of pre-reqs which is way less than an Associates degree.

I'd go in focusing solely on the BSN! Let's say you graduate HS at 18 and it only takes you 4 years for pre-reqs and nursing school for BSN, you're 22 and can make 18-30$ an hour. That's way more than a LOT of 22 year old people can make! Heck, I'm 22 and am making 9.50 an hour while in school. I wish I had a "gunner" mindset straight out of HS. Plus, having a bachelors degree while so young opens up lots of opportunity; you could, as mentioned above, work a whole bunch, or keep going for some higher level of education. After 4 years of school you'll likely have a solid idea of where you want to go post-undergraduate.

Good luck! :)

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An AA is an associates art degree program my school offers that gets 2 years of college out of the way, I'm currently In 9th grade but I'm thinking ahead about my future. I was planning on doing to the program and taking as much ASN classes as I can in my next 3 years of being in college courses. Then I'd go for my bachelor's degree, farther comments to this allowed.. If there's a easier way than this let me know :]

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An ASN is a associates in science nursing degree.

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Oh now I understand! Sounds like you have a pretty awesome plan. As long as the courses you're taking will be accepted by the nursing school you plan to attend then I see no drawbacks. Nothing wrong with exiting HS with all your pre-reqs done! :^)

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Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.

Totally agree with LadyFree. Skip the ASN - go right into a BSN program after high school.

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Totally agree with LadyFree and klone. If at all possible. You are young and I'd go straight for the BSN.

I'm a second-career nurse and did my ADN and then about 10 years later did the RN-BSN at a private university. I'm glad I did but if I could go back and talk to my 18 year old self upon graduation from high school, I'd say get your BSN.

I'm excited that at 16 you have such a specific goal in mind. Keep up the good work!

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You can get the prerequisites done towards the bsn which are almost the same and go right into that program. You have to have an AA to apply to those. So you work towards completing English 1&2, chm plus lab, micro plus lab, ap1&2 and labs psych, sociology, human growth and development, nutrition, statistics, and college algebra plus the other AA requirements like humanities and such. Some colleges need ethics too. On this route you take 60 credits which you can start in high school and after the 60 credits you apply for the bsn. It's a great path that you can be far into of you start now. You have to get your BSN regardless...this just works faster if you start getting rid of the basic classes in high school.

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Yes multiple colleges require me to have a associates degree, which would you say benefit me more having my AA or my AS?

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The only reason you get the AS is if you are getting your rn to work and you go back and get your RN - BSN after you start working. It usually is longer but you work sooner. If you can do the bsn it would make more sense since you are just starting. When you go back after the AS you still have to take a lot of those same classes if you didn't already for the bsn.

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Yes I know it would take more but considering I'm in high school and my high-school offers a program allowing us to take college courses to get our AA I figured they might as well let me get my AS there pretty much relating to the same thing.

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Thank you

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When I asked this question I didn't know as much as I do now, thank you for your time and information :)

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