“If you honestly believe more education does not make any difference, there is no point in continuing the discussion. Good day.”
The ADN/BSN debate misses the point, entirely. First, it ignores experience, something particularly important in a field of work that is as much art as it is science. 2nd, education is of limited value when the “education” is little more than liberal indoctrination - care plans and “theory” are crap with no actual application to the trenches of nursing. There is an utter lack of praxis in nursing. 3rd, outside the ivory tower of nursing, nobody cares about the initials after the initials after my last name. 4th, the ANA poison-pilled this whole debate in 1965 with its “technical” slur. 5th, this whold debate has been wrapped up in some lame idea of “professionalism” with the result being that the majority of new nurses get lectured about how nursing isn’t a “profession” because of its educational status. THAT message, in support of BSN, is more damaging than the failure of achieving a BSN-standard. The side-effects of this poison-pill is worse than the disease. 6th, this issue has been hotly debated - and moved exactly nowhere - for more than 40 yrs. Until those pushing for BSN-standard decide to bring all stake-holders to the table, instead of trying to win the debate by fiat, it won’t go anywhere in the NEXT 40 yrs.
There is a way to move to BSN standard, and, I would concede that such a standard is the way to go. It’s just not going to go that way until the ivory tower decides to stop trying to bully and insult its way to that goal and instead figures out that the best solution is to give everybody an actual incentive to make such a move.
Finally, this is probably TMI for freerepublic. However, if anybody is interested, I’m writing a book about nursing (What the Ivory Tower Won’t Tell You) and I would be willing to discuss a few ideas on how to move to BSN- standard for nurses - how to do so the RIGHT way, with all stake-holders aboard.
Good luck with your book.