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What percentage of nurses further their education past RN (Associates)?

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Marie’s Answer

The most common degree for registered nurses is associate degree 46% of registered nurses earn that degree. A close second is bachelor's degree with 44% and rounding it off is master's degree with 5%.
As of 2020, 65.2% of the RN workforce earned a baccalaureate or higher degree as their highest level of nursing education.nearly 41% of employers require new hires to have a bachelor’s degree while 77% strongly prefer baccalaureate-prepared nurses.
The number of nurses going back to school for a Bachelor's degrees(BSN)has increased. Some hospitals will only hire nurses with a BSN degree because of special certification called magnet status is achieved. Today it is easier to obtain a higher degree. Must degrees are available online and with a flexible schedule. The classes require computer skills and alot of paper writing. The course work for my masters degree was easier the my bachelors degree.
It took me 20 years to get my BSN, then I went straight into masters program. If you need to start working as soon as possible get your associate degree but go straight into bachelors program. And follow in masters program in you know what you want to be when you grow up as a nurse.
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Bradley’s Answer

About half of the nurses that gradated with an Associates Degree go back to school and get their Bachelors. This is my guess with the people that I have worked with and I fall into that category. It's hard to go back to school once you have already started working a full time job. Plus just thinking about how hard it was just to get the Associates Degree. If you work a good facility they will offer you the chance to go back to school and offer to help with expenses because they want nurses in their facility to have a Bachelors Degree. I do agree that if you want to be a nurse go ahead and take the big plunge by attending a college that offers a Bachelor's in nursing.
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Donna’s Answer

There is a desire for 80% of nurses to have their Bachelor's Degree by 2020 (Boivin, J. 2019). Although this will not be the case, it is encouraging to know that Associate Degree Nurses who have gone back to school has increased from 23,000 to 56,000. I am among those nurses that obtained their Bachelor's Degree several years after obtaining my Associates Degree in nursing.

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Donna recommends the following next steps:

Try to determine if you have the ability to obtain your Bachelor's Degree in Nursing when you decide to go to College. It is much easier to do this all at one time if this is possible.
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