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ADN? BSN? Is there a difference?

Last post 06-07-2012, 10:34 AM by Peter Digiuseppe. 6 replies.
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  •  07-05-2011, 11:12 AM

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    Nurses drive healthcare, but in many instances, there are barriers preventing them from leading the changes that need to be made to advance health for our nation. To that end, the IOM/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation spent 2 years researching what nursing could do for itself and the resulting report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” makes eight recommendations to transform the nursing profession and remove those barriers that may prevent nurses from leading change and advancing healthcare. One recommendation calls for nurses to achieve higher levels of education to keep up with more challenging healthcare delivery and advocates that 80 percent of RNs to have earned the BSN by 2020, a lofty goal. What do you think? Is this goal attainable? Is it necessary? Is there value in the BSN over an associate degree? Is an RN an RN, no matter their education?

  •  07-21-2011, 8:31 PM

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    I am an ADN. While I passed the same state boards that BSN-prepared nurses passed, I did not have the amount of clinical time afforded BSN students or as many acute patients. I was not exposed to opportunities to learn the art of delegation or to really develop time management skills. Granted part of that is due to the rural area of Michigan in which I lived while in school. At any rate, I'm going back for my BSN within the next few months. I think it's vital to my success as a nurse. The goal is attainable, in my opinion, if hospitals/facilities continue to offer tuition reimbursement programs and make some attempt at being flexible with scheduling for nurses returning to school.

  •  09-07-2011, 3:11 AM

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    I agree with Christie.  I have a BSN degree.  When I look at my collegues, it is not very difficult to guess who has completed only an ADN degree.  You see the difference, at least with the relatively new nurses.  After a few years of actual work, the difference diminishes as people learn from their work.
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  •  09-22-2011, 12:19 PM

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    Yes of course an advanced can make a difference but it depends on the individual nurse.  Not all BSN prepared nurses are all stars and not all ADN nurses are poorly prepared.  I was a single parent with no time or money to obtain my BSN, however, I graduated at the top of my class and my board scores as well as my clinical certification scores were among the top in the nation (at a time when everyone took the boards at the same time).  I have traveled the globe teaching physicians and nurses how to prescribe dialysis and provide quality care to ESRD patients.  I now develop international drug safety training programs.  I love what I do and believe that nurses must keep up with new information, trends, medications, etc. and go well beyond their state mandated number of CEUs.  We owe it to ourselves, to our patients, and to our profession.  Perhaps if we as nurses expected more of ourselves and our colleagues we would not be facing this issue.

  •  10-18-2011, 11:43 AM

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    An Associate Degree will qualify you to pass the RN test as will the BS program.

    The BS program will probably get you several thousand more a year in pay. That's basically the only difference.
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  •  05-24-2012, 12:09 AM

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    I took the liberty of researching the IOM (Institute of Medicine); the organization that is calling for a dramatic increase in the number of baccalaureate and graduate prepared nurses.  Surprise, surprise; just about every one of its officers and board members are in some way affiliated with a four year college or university. It is no wonder they'd like to have all nurses run back to school for BSN and graduate degrees. 

    Now let's have a little quiz NCLEX style. There may be more than one correct answer. Choose the one that is most correct.

    Who benefits the most by nurses having to run back to school for BSN and graduate degrees?

    A. The patient who is now being cared for by a BSN who wrote a few more papers on current issues and nursing theory but received no more clinical education or hands-on training.

    B. The now debt-ridden nurse who is still making the same amount of money they were before the BSN.

    C. The four year colleges and universities.

    D. The student loan lenders.

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  •  06-07-2012, 10:34 AM

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    Let me reiterate that I am all for nurses choosing to advance their education if that is indeed their choice.  I am only against the BSN being mandated by hospitals, government or aany other entity.  These entities need to start thanking outside the box.  Am ADN prepared who also has a bachelor's degree in something like business management should be considered as having fulfilled any BSN requirements.  Healthcare facilities need to stop being so anal-retentive and facility human resources departments need to start thinking for change.  Good luck with that.  I am also still not convinced that that the BSN and Magnet Status pushes are are nothing mo than marketing ploys that are used in the hope of duping an uniformed general public in order to increase revenue for colleges and hospitals as well as allow hospital management to giver themselves a pat on the back.

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