Bsn Nursing Experience

Nursing is a knowledge-based discipline. Continuing education will enhance knowledge, to provide an optimum care for the patient. To strengthen the base of nursing obtaining a BSN will provide you with in–depth knowledge of better skills for decisions making, planning and evaluating patient’s outcome. Patient care is the main key component of the nursing practice. Emphases on higher education will helps in advanced nursing provide nurses with critical skills for patients, good communication and management skills to patient’s well-being. Research has shown that nurses who holds baccalaureate degree or higher level can reduce mortality rates, fewer medication errors, and positive outcomes.

As per the study by Dr.Linda Aiken and her colleagues published in September 24,2003 Journal of the American Medical Association , that surgical patients have a "substantial survival advantage" if treated in hospitals with higher proportions of nurses educated at the baccalaureate or higher degree

But most of the nurse’s educational level not changing. It is already time up to think about getting higher education. However Associate degree nurse is also important to the patient care. But for the patient’s satisfaction and the best outcome, it is important we need a baccalaureate nurse who makes better decisions, effective communications and leadership skills. However, I got an argument here as my experience being a nurse (pediatrics) less medication errors by experienced nurses and better bedside nursing by diploma nurses. One study (Blegen, Vaughn, & Goode, 2001, p. 6) found that decreased falls and medication errors are lower with an experience nurse as compare with baccalaureate nursing. But the other aspects of nursing such as patient education, discharge planning, leadership, and other baccalaureate nursing activities not examined in the