Best path to a BSN?

Lakemom
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 21:41:34 +0000

These are all the programs: AA and BSN in Calif.
http://www.rn.ca.gov/schools/rnprograms.shtml#bsn

Nursing programs are often impacted in Calif so considering the AA to BSN route or the BA in something related and get your BSN after is an option. There are some online BSN programs so you could work while you are doing it and finish the BSN on your own.

If you are going to get a BA in something else, then select something you might use when you are older and may not want to continue working doing direct patient care.

Computer science is one you have identified as computers are always going to be used in health care and there are nurses who become Nurse Informaticists. http://explorehealthcareers.org/en/Career/91/Nursing_Informaticist

I would not get a Biology degree as it only gets you work as a lab tech so does no have a future. Pre meds often do Bio because they have to take all those classes for Medical School.

So, as Charliesch has said, run the numbers for various versions of what you want to do in terms of cost and see which works out to be the most practical.