Nursing And ADN Differences
Running head: ADN AND BSN DIFFERENCES
ADN AND BSN DIFFERENCES
GCU
NRS-430V Professional Dynamics 26-Mar-2012 (O191)
NRS-430V
April 07, 2012
ADA AND BSN DIFFERENCES
Nursing has come a long way from the medieval age of scrutiny and disguise to being a well sought out profession. Nursing helps to provide humane services to the people and community. Education in nursing has different levels, an associate’s degree, a baccalaureate degree, master’s degree and many more. In this paper difference between Associates degree in Nursing (ADN) verses Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN) would be discussed.
Becoming a Registered Nurse (RN) can be done by three different ways. First is a 3 year diploma program mainly …show more content…
And the Change does come with benefit as a Baccalaureate nursing programs gives the opportunity to the person to look into higher prospective jobs, such as management positions in hospitals and universities, to provide managerial needs to the staff underneath. If a person wants to further his studies then BSN degree is the program to look into. The major difference between the BSN and ADN is, BSN nurses have more in depth knowledge of the history of nursing and conduct research in the community which is up to date.
This invariably helps to provide specific guidelines to the upcoming nurses an helps to achieve evidence based practice. In the study that had made public in May 2008 issue of Journal of Nursing Administration, Dr. Linda Aiken and her colleagues confirmed the findings from their landmark 2003 study found that every 10% increase in the proposition of BSN nurses on the hospital was associated with a 4% decrease in the risk of death. …show more content…
(Moorhead&Cowen, 2006). The American Association of colleges of nursing has posted (Fact sheet, 2010) on their sites enforcing to have the minimum level of entry for nurses should be a Baccalaureate degree. And with this requirement it’s going to increase more qualified nurses with advanced degree to be able to work in acute settings. With more knowledge to back up their roles in clinical areas, the nurse will be at par with physician and other healthcare professionals.
Patient Care Scenario During one of the working days in a post op surgical unit, one of the patients fell while he was walking around the unit. With the help of a co-worker who is a BSN nurse, the situation was managed who with her critical thinking understood what had to be done to recover the patient. The patient got transferred to higher level of care and made the condition of the patient stable. If it was not the presence of BSN nurse on the duty, it would have been difficult to analyze the situation and act quickly to save the patient.
ADN AND BSN DIFFERENCES
GCU
NRS-430V Professional Dynamics 26-Mar-2012 (O191)
NRS-430V
April 07, 2012
ADA AND BSN DIFFERENCES
Nursing has come a long way from the medieval age of scrutiny and disguise to being a well sought out profession. Nursing helps to provide humane services to the people and community. Education in nursing has different levels, an associate’s degree, a baccalaureate degree, master’s degree and many more. In this paper difference between Associates degree in Nursing (ADN) verses Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN) would be discussed.
Becoming a Registered Nurse (RN) can be done by three different ways. First is a 3 year diploma program mainly …show more content…
And the Change does come with benefit as a Baccalaureate nursing programs gives the opportunity to the person to look into higher prospective jobs, such as management positions in hospitals and universities, to provide managerial needs to the staff underneath. If a person wants to further his studies then BSN degree is the program to look into. The major difference between the BSN and ADN is, BSN nurses have more in depth knowledge of the history of nursing and conduct research in the community which is up to date.
This invariably helps to provide specific guidelines to the upcoming nurses an helps to achieve evidence based practice. In the study that had made public in May 2008 issue of Journal of Nursing Administration, Dr. Linda Aiken and her colleagues confirmed the findings from their landmark 2003 study found that every 10% increase in the proposition of BSN nurses on the hospital was associated with a 4% decrease in the risk of death. …show more content…
(Moorhead&Cowen, 2006). The American Association of colleges of nursing has posted (Fact sheet, 2010) on their sites enforcing to have the minimum level of entry for nurses should be a Baccalaureate degree. And with this requirement it’s going to increase more qualified nurses with advanced degree to be able to work in acute settings. With more knowledge to back up their roles in clinical areas, the nurse will be at par with physician and other healthcare professionals.
Patient Care Scenario During one of the working days in a post op surgical unit, one of the patients fell while he was walking around the unit. With the help of a co-worker who is a BSN nurse, the situation was managed who with her critical thinking understood what had to be done to recover the patient. The patient got transferred to higher level of care and made the condition of the patient stable. If it was not the presence of BSN nurse on the duty, it would have been difficult to analyze the situation and act quickly to save the patient.