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[grimalkinrn]

I'm having a really hard time with feeling depressed and worthless lately. I feel like I generally annoy everyone around me and I really wish it wasn't a mandatory thing that I go outside and interact with people. Every day starts to get a little harder lately

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[laika_came_home]

I can only imagine because of the saturation of nursing schools in your area and thus an available hiring pool of BSNs, that your hospital is so prickish about having an ADN. I'm sorry that they are treating you like an idiot who needs retraining.

I have a BSN for the same reason you have an ADN. I was accepted to a BSN program far away from home (had to move three hours south) before I was accepted into an ADN program in then local area. I had to move house, quit my job, uproot my husband etc in order to attend, but it's what I chose to do just to get the hell through school. Those waiting lists are killer and I wanted off any way I could. Had it been reversed and I'd been accepted to an ADN program far away before a BSN, I'd have made the same decision.

I've never felt that BSN nurses possess any clinical prowess over ADNs. I do think that people with higher level degrees should have priority to obtain higher level positions (management etc) but floor nursing is kind of a level playing field, in my opinion. To say that someone with an ADN is incapable of precepting is ridiculous.

[grimalkinrn]

I knew you'd absolutely get it. There may be a plethora of BSN new grads to pick from, but I think the hospital's goal is to keep experienced nurses in their current jobs as long as possible. So I'll be slogging it out on med surg a while longer, since all the jobs in the hospital now require a BSN to transfer into them. It's ridiculous, because what really makes a hospital better ARE STAFFING RATIOS, NOT NURSING DEGREES.

Ug.

I agree with you that people in management should have higher degrees, especially because running a hospital requires more education, but if we passed the same boards, and I've been at the place for 6 years with a good record, I really should be able to change departments if I'm qualified. AND I AM SO OVER QUALIFIED FOR MY JOB AT THIS POINT, IT'S SAD.