Contrast in competences between ADN and BSN Nurses
To be a professional nurse, one has to complete numerous college classes. Nursing focuses on personalized care behaviors, functions, and processes that have physical, psychocultural, and social significance or meaning. The goal of nursing is to help, support, facilitate, or enable individuals or groups to regain or maintain their health in a way that also puts their culture into consideration and also helps people face handicaps or death (Friberg, 109). . Some nurses choose to earn only an associate degree while others choose to get their baccalaureate degree in nursing. Regardless of the route they take both the ADN and the BSN nurse, after completing their college requirements have to pass a standardized licensure exam, The N-CLEX RN to be certified by the “National Council Licensure” to be allowed by their state to practice as a professional nurse.
There are huge differences in competences between the ADN nurse and the BSN nurse. The ADN nurse completes her/his education in a two to three year college setting while a BSN nurse completes their education in a four year university. Although both programs provide the prospective nurse the required knowledge to pass the N-CLEX “which tests for minimum technical competencies for safe entry into basic nursing practice” (Rosseter, 2012, p1), research has shown that the nurse prepared at the baccalaureate level provides the nurse with “more advanced analytical and creative capabilities, stronger assessment skills, cultural sensitivity, scientific reasoning, ability to apply knowledge , stronger communication skills and confidence in their work as they work with other high level medical professionals.(Rosseter, p2)
Associate degree level nursing focuses on technical skills and enables the nurse to provide direct nursing care at the bedside, usually providing less