[TheWolf]

I'm in nursing now, and they've screwed it up in this educational sense. First you needed a ASN to get employed. now some hospitals are "magnet" hospitals which is like some gov't medicare money they're chasing. So now they're only hiring 4 years. The pay difference between a 2 year and a 4 year educated nurse? $0.50/hr. Yeah. 50 Cents. whoopty ding dong. Paying another 6k for 2 years of schooling to get another 50 cents an hour. Do they teach you any more in those last two years? nope it's mostly theory classes. Infact it can be done almost entirely online through Florida State. So all those nurse practitioners and CRNA's that are going to come into the field and save money for obama care? They just bumped all those people from a masters degree to a doctorate. Seriously WTF. Let alone finding a school with clinicals close to your home. The price since it's all graduate level classes is about $85k for the trip. You make about $10/hr more that what you would have made as a critical care nurse. If you have a BSN you're about 6 classes away from a Pre-Med Degree Bachelors. Just go and become a doctor, it's almost the same price. Make way more.