What Is The Best Way To Go After High School To Become A Rn?

Posted on 09/10/2009 by nursing| 3 Comments

I need advice to follow for when I finally graduated high school in one year.

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3 Responses to What Is The Best Way To Go After High School To Become A Rn?

  1. Melissa B | 09/10/2009 at 4:09 pm |

    Depends on whether you want a bachelor’s degree or you’re comfortable with just an RN.
    The bachelor’s degree (BSN) is my recommended route, if you’re interested in going to a four-year college/university. Many large public universities will have this major. You’ll take classes related to nursing (pharmacology, anatomy and physiology, etc) in addition to liberal arts classes like English and mathematics. During your last two years you’ll do clinical rotations, which will give you nursing experience. At the end of four years you’ll have a bachelor’s degree, which will give you a lot of flexibility — you can become a nurse, go into nursing administration after getting some experience, or even go back to get an MSN or Ph.D and become a nursing professor/instructor.
    Or you can do the RN. Under this model you’d go to school for 2-3 years and mainly take only the classes that are directly relevant to nursing. You won’t have a degree at the end of your studies and will have less flexibility; you probably can’t move easily to administration or other jobs. However, it will enable you to be a nurse.
    I strongly recommend the BSN option. My mother is currently an LPN and she is finding that she has to get a BSN, which is what she’s currently doing. Many other nurses at her job who are RNs are also going back to get the BSN.

  2. Onset of Insomnia | 09/10/2009 at 4:48 pm |

    I have to agree, the four-year college/university bachelor’s degree (BSN) is your best route. This would help you with advancement in the future (managerial/admin).
    This is what my friend did, she recieved her RN from a 2 year college because she did not have enough money to do the 4 (sometimes 5) year BSN. She wanted to work right away. Five years later she was able to get her union to pay for her BSN.
    Nursing is very competitive. Just make sure you keep a 3.7 GPA in college. You can look at the website I provided to see what I mean.

  3. Bearwith | 09/10/2009 at 5:08 pm |

    Go to a four-year state university to obtain your BSN. You should get paid more than a RN who has a two-year degree plus, you will qualify for supervisory duties. Good luck.