ADN vs BSN Nursing Degree's | PROS & CONS

[Music] hey guys what's up it's Smith and welcome back to my youtube channel if you're new here hello my name is Elizabeth and I am no longer a 4 semester aadya nursing student I am a nursing school graduate as of Monday so that's super exciting and I will be posting my last week of nursing school vlog within the next few days here so if you want to see that make sure to stick around hit that subscribe button leave me a comment I would love to have you a part of this little YouTube family but today I decided to answer a very commonly asked question that I get pretty much on every single video that I post in the comments or on my Instagram DMS which if you're not following me on Instagram I'll put it right here make sure to go follow me I'm very active with you guys and I love responding to your questions and whatever um I will say I'm not like super quick at responding and I really need to go through my teams right now but I do eventually respond I promise I love talking to you guys it makes me so happy that so many of you guys I touch upon this in my weekly vlog that I'm about to post um it just means so much to me that you know I can have this channel and have its platform where I can give you guys a little bit inspiration I guess or motivation or just a common ground to come to you in the craziness of nursing school but with that being said I'm gonna be answering a very very commonly asked question which is why did I decide to get my adn vs. my BSN what the difference is what it actually needs to be a registered nurse and the steps that you have to take in order to become a nurse so that's what we're gonna be talking about today I'm gonna try to be as informative as possible and also give little pieces of like my personal story and why I chose the program that I did and stuff like that and but again this is just my personal opinion and I do live in the United States and I'm not sure what it's like in other countries so feel free if you're watching from another to comment down below and let us know what it's like in different countries because I know it's so different just from what some of you have already told me through DMS and comments already but yeah so this is just my personal opinion and I'm gonna try to make it as informative as possible so with that being said let's go ahead and get started okay so we're going to start very broad with a question of what is an RN what is a registered nurse what does it mean to have those two letters next to your name so and I think this is the most like miss interpretive part of nursing education is that if you graduate from nursing school that you're an RN but an RN is a licensure and it's not a degree so each state has a Board of Nursing so I live in Ohio so in my state it's the OB NV Ohio Board of Nursing and what these Boards of Nursing do they do a lot of things but in general they give licenses they can take licenses away if you're not practicing within your nursing scope of practice they make nursing scope of practice laws and changes within your state which is basically what you can do as a nurse because it can differ from state to state not drastically but it can be a little bit different and they administer the NCLEX which is the boards that you take in order to become an RN and get your license and then I feel like it's the most misinterpreted part because people think that you have to have a BSN in order to do this but that is not the case because in order to sit and take your boards you have to graduate from an accredited nursing program whether that be an adn which is two years or a BSN which is four years it doesn't matter which one of these you take as long as it's an accredited school you complete all your requirements and your school sends over your information all of your completed requirements to your state boards which is then going to allow you to sit and take your and clucks so this is a stage that I'm in at the moment which is I'm studying for my in clucks and I'm getting ready to test to become an RN so I just graduated from an adn program like I said is an associate's degree and after you graduate so I graduated on Monday so now my school is gonna send my credentials like all my completed credits showing and then I graduated from an accredited school and then I'm going to go online and I'm gonna apply for my license through the Ohio Board of Nursing once I apply for my license I have to get a background check and then once they receive all of my information from my school and my background check I can then they'll then send a number which I forgot what it's called they send a number and then that is your ticket to sit and take the NCLEX to become a registered nurse so after you explaining that just in general that an RN is a license not a degree we're gonna go into the pros and cons of should you get your bachelor's or just your adn and why even get your bachelor's if you can take it to your degree and still sit and take your boards and so on and so forth so the reason why you need a BSN which is a degree not a license it's because there are things called magnet hospitals which is basically like accreditation and most hospitals in the United States are now requiring their nurses to obtain a BSN within a certain amount of years so the hospital that I'm most likely gonna end up working at requires you to get your BSN within five years so of course this is great to expand your own knowledge personally and further your education but the reason the hospital wants it is because of accreditation and political things financial reasons to have their hospital have more accreditation and then I said you drink Commission and hospital administration and a whole bunch of stuff that I don't understand nor do I even want to understand the nitty-gritty behind all the financial aspects but from a nursing point of view having an adn versus a BSN is not going to expand your practice at all and I feel like that's also like a misconception if you graduate from a 2-year ADM program or four-year BSN program you're gonna have these same skills the same scope of practice within your state as stated by your Board of Nursing in your state you're not gonna make any more money being able to do anything more outside of your scope of practice that your state has set for you so that's definitely a question that I get a lot like well why did you get your adn like you know you should just go to school gear BSN blah blah blah so that is like definitely a misconception that your scope of practice is going to expand once you get your bachelor's in saying that your bachelor's is required for you to get in order to like stay working at the hospital like I said to each like financial and accreditation and hospital administration stuff so personally I decided to now we're like getting into the pros and cons I decided to give my ad in first because one it's cheaper because you can get it through a Community College and two it's faster because obviously it's two years not four and you can sit for your same boards and start practicing and get your license as a registered nurse and three a lot of the times since hospitals do you want their nurses and they want to give them incentive to go back to school and get their BSN I would say 90 outgo do 95 because I don't know in every single state 95% of hospitals will give you some kind of financial reimbursement or they may just pay for your BSN completely in my case the hospital that I'm probably gonna end up working at doesn't pay for the entire thing but they do give back a pretty decent chunk of the cost of your bachelor's degree which was a super big like thing for me it's like encouraged me to get my ad in first because why pay for bachelors when I could just pay for my associates and again like I said for an associate's degree it's at Community College so in total I don't know exactly how much I spent but it was definitely under ten thousand dollars for my entire two years of school including books scrubs everything it was definitely under 10 grand and the school that I'm looking at to get my bachelor's degree from it's like 10 grand a semester so that would be like $40,000 because I had four semesters versus like I don't know like I said I don't know exactly how much I spent but less than one semester for the entirety of my entire adn program is less than one semester of a BSN program plus a BSN is four years so that's even more that's $80,000 versus less than ten so for me that was a super huge encouragement because I one of my biggest goals was to graduate school without any debt so those are my pros nominalist some cons so obviously you're gonna have to go back to school so you're gonna have to work and go to school at the same time which can definitely be a turn-off for some people especially if you're maybe a mom or dad you know kids family and that's there's gonna be too much for you to work full-time as a nurse and go to school and deal with all of life's just general things you have to do every day so to some people that's a turn-off they just want to like get it done right away another con is this wasn't really necessarily in my case but sometimes there is a waiting list for community colleges because obviously it is a lot cheaper so that is incentive for people to want to go there so sometimes there a waiting list in order to get into the nursing program that wasn't my case and my school there wasn't a waiting list but I know this is a very common thing at community colleges and especially now due to Co fit and all the college students having to come home from school you know now the kind of idea is well I'm not gonna pay ten thousand dollars a semester to stay at home and do online classes if I can pay two thousand dollars like on average for like a semester um and get the same degree from your house so those waiting lists might even get bigger so that is a con and yeah those look really the only concept I could come up with I'm sure you guys can come up with some more but like I said you're gonna have to work and go to school but some people do that anyways so that might not even be a con for everyone because you may have to work full-time and get paid less while you're in school to pay for school you know I don't know you can go back and forth but those are my pros and my cons so in summary the reason why I chose to get my adn first was because it was cheaper I could live at home you know and not have to pay to go to way to school um my hospitals I'm gonna be working at will be paying for a good majority of my bachelor's degree and there wasn't a waiting list me so those are my pros but that again it's a very personal thing and different things work better for different people but that is why I chose to get my adn and again an RN is a license not a degree so it doesn't matter if you get an adn or a BSN when you graduate from that program if it was accredited accreditation making thanks P again making sure your school is accredited is very important as well when you're looking at different schools so you're able to sit and take your NCLEX and get your RN and add those two letters to your name and that obviously if your get your BSN I get this question a lot too you don't have to retake the ink Lux after you get your BSN that's not a thing you do have to renew your license but that doesn't require you taking the ink Lux again but you have to renew your license yearly anyways so yeah I hope this video was informational and you guys got something out of it I know when I started school I was very confused between all the letters a D and BS n RN RN BSN like so many different things but I hope this video was informational and I was next one bye guys I see sick people watching person

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Published: Sat May 16 2020