I Got IN!! - Page 4 - ThinnerTimes

tm45 · 03-26-2008, 11:56 AM

CONGRATS!!

Best of luck to you in your new career!

It sounds like it will be a great move for you!

Duckie · 03-26-2008, 12:30 PM

LOL lean away. Beth has been a nurse a lot longer though, I'd lean on her first. lol

Omaha Jim · 03-26-2008, 01:35 PM

Laura, That is fantastic and you should be very proud of your accomplishments. You are a testament as to what focusing on getting healthy in all aspects of your life can do! Way to go girl!

MiladyB · 03-26-2008, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Zenomia

That is really odd that the pay isn't different for an ADN vs a diploma. You would think the diploma would have some monetary value over the ADN. Hmmm...that really doesn't offer any advantage to get a BSN then does it? Unless, like you said you go on to get your Masters. Knowing I can skip all the BSN stuff and go strait to a Masters is a HUGE Plus for me. Guess it's all going to depend on how well I actually like what I am doing once I get into it.

You guys are AWESOME!!! Thanks for all the info! I am totally going to be leaning on you BOTH in the years to come....so you thought you were out of it Beth...with your daughter graduating and all....HAHAHAHA GUESS AGAIN!!!

hehehe...yep...she is constantly grilling me with questions. I'm at work and sometimes I get 3 or 4 calls from her as she does her homework. I keep telling her..."dear, I'm just a Burn nurse, I don't know EVERYTHING!" *L* But apparently I'm doing something right because the instructors keep presenting her care plans as a good example of what they want. I'm really so proud of her. She is one of the top in her class. She just went through her Critical Care rotation and she is only 1 of 5 students that didn't fail the rotation. All the rest of them need to re-take it. She honestly is one smart cookie but I guess some of my answers to her must be right. *L* Can't believe she actually wants to work with Mom though...when she told me that I had to check her temp to make sure she wasn't ill.

Anyway, check things out Laura...there really are all kinds of options out there. That is one of the things that makes nursing so exciting.

For me, nope...no BSN in my future. I love what I'm doing so I really see no benefit to go on to get my degree. It would be ALOT of work for me to do that since as a diploma nurse I don't have any kind of degree..not even an associates. I just have 3 years of hospital training and a diploma. Those programs were very much in the hospital training with hospital run classes. I actually only had 6 months of college classes.

Duckie · 03-26-2008, 02:01 PM

THose hospital run "diploma" programs were the BEST though. Lots of hands on training. THey don't exist any more though.