BSN Prepared Nurses

September 6, 2012 at 5:01 pm (Uncategorized) (, , , )

Natalie Webermin is a Senior 2 in the BSN program and will be starting her preceptor assignment in the Fall 2012. Natalie was accepted into the School of Nursing’s Traditional BSN Program in Winter 2010. She started working at Beaumont in 2008 as a Nursing Assistant in the Nursing Resource Pool and now works in the Transplant- SICU as a Nurse Tech. She is a member of both SNAOU and The Dean’s Circle. When she graduates and puts some time in as an RN she would love to offer her time and new skills to teach clinicals for nursing students. In her free time she loves being with her friends and family, watch a good movie and for anyone that knows her well she loves to go out to eat!

 

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a new consensus report in 2010. It stated four new significant messages, one of which particularly caught my attention. This message was that “Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression” (The Future of Nursing, 1).

I know for me, it is easy to think that because we are in a BSN program that they must be referring to the new DNP programs, but we are wrong.  The changes that are facing the profession today are in regards to the health system requiring a BSN degree for nurses.

In a second article that I read, it was noted that in 2008 only about 39% of our nation’s nurses held a four year bachelor’s degree. The article stated that with the new consensus report issued from the IOM they want to raise that number to 80% in about eight years.  The pressure is not only on the Associate Degree nurses, but also on nursing schools to implement programs that are easy for nurses to go back to school and achieve the advanced education. The readings also informed me that many hospitals are not even considering applicants for positions without BSN degrees.

My point in this blog is that not only are we fortunate enough to have been accepted into OU’s School of Nursing program, but we are very smart to get our BSN degrees now.  The BSN degree offers us the critical thinking skills rather than just the technical skills of nursing.

This degree allows us to look at the whole picture of our professional field: the family dynamics, patient safety, leadership in Nursing and evidenced based practice, just to name a few. Sometimes it is difficult to understand why we are learning certain topics but it will make more sense towards the end.

Trust me, after doing some research on this new topic, we will be very successful and happy that we achieved our BSN.

 

 

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