Abstract
The below mentioned paper highlights the need of a Bachelor’s degree course to enter into nursing profession. It also talks about what most hospitals prefer while recruiting the nursing staff.
No doubt, a bachelor’s degree in nursing is mandatory for most but not all nursing professions. A bachelor’s degree course in nursing is just like another four year degree course from a college or university. The degree course comprises of combined classroom sessions with hands on training known as the clinical. These allow students a first hand experience while working with patients during a clinical setting. But it should be taken care that a professional degree course should be acquired through an affiliated nursing program.
Researches have revealed that it is desired by most hospitals that nurses should have a bachelor’s degree but it is not an easy task to find such. Several states like New York have made it mandatory to recruit at least a few nurses with bachelor’s degree by introducing bills although none of them have become a law as yet. (“American Association of Colleges of Nursing”, 1997)
Be it any nursing school, a graduate can easily become an R.N. by passing a national liscensing exam and this is the only requirement by hospitals. Apart from these, there are Licensed practical nurses who perform fewer functions and are being sent out of hospitals.
It has not been long when a majority of nurses didn’t even go to college at all. Instead they went to nursing schools managed and operated by hospitals. One of them is still being operated by Abington. During thr mid 1980’s, almost half of the country’s registered nurses had started their career in a similar fashion. But, at that time, the schools based on hospitals were shutting down and the trend that replaced it was of community based college education.
Pros: Hospitals highly demand registered and trained nurses, those experienced in medical surgical fields and emergency room paediatrics. The number of available jobs for nurses will rise by almost 22 percent in the year 2018, counting for a hike of 48 percent jobs in doctor’s clinics as per the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Cons: It takes no less than two years to take a vocational course in nursing from any institution. However, a bachelor’s degee is completed in four to five as it covers a huge number of educational topics. Usually, potential nurses get a job in two years but nurses enrolled for a five years degree course take two extra years before moving into employment.
References:
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (1997). A vision of baccalaureate and graduate nursing education: The next decade. Retrieved May 2, 2007 from: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Publications/positions/vision.htm
