Having a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing will be a waste of time since you have to add more years to study in college. “Roughly 40% of the nearly 3 million registered nurses (RNs) in the United States have an associate's degree (ADN) as their highest level of nursing education (Nursing Economics David I. Auerbach)”. There are many people who did not pursue that goal, instead they earned their LPN degree. Earning a LPN could lead to working any ’medical/ caretaker’ facilities. Many people started working in nursing home nor hospitals that only earned their RN. It would take a lot of time earning a BSN, why not just work after earning a LPN. …show more content…
Many hospitals have hired people who have earned a BSN because they have learned and studied longer which given them a chance to developed the skills. “The results of Aiken et al.s research indicate that in hospitals with a 10% increase in the proportion of nurses with BSN degrees, there was a decreased risk of patient death and failure to rescue by 5%” ( Megginson 53). According to Megginson quote which does indicate that developing skills in school could lead to being hired in hospital which you could increase your patient's survival in the