Is an associate's degree in nursing a good investment?

>>1942674
You should go for an RN

>>1942674
No.

>>1942685
Doesn't that cost more time and money?

>>1943463

you could pay ~$1500 for a certificate as a nurses assistant, earning ~25k a year, spend some time in the field and see if it's truly your calling, and go back to school to become a registered nurse - RN's make roughly 60k a year.

Can you use it to transfer to 4 year school to get a Bachelor's in nursing to become an RN? If so, I think it sounds like a great investment. If you would just be some type of glorified lab technician with a top pay of 40-45k with the associates degree, probably not a good investment.

Major misconception in this thread:
You will become a Registered Nurse (RN) with *EITHER* a BSN *OR* an ADN (Associates Degree in Nursing) Yes BSN holders tend to make more over time but starting sallaries of both degree holders are very similar. IMO Getting your ADN at a community college first and then working & working on your BSN after is the most financially savvy way to go about getting your BSN. Look up the Bureau of Labor Statistic's job outlook for Nursing to see if the career field is smart in genera but from my knowledge of the field Nursing is very in demand usually and is needed virtually everywhere making it very versatile.

>>1942674

Nursing is pretty much guaranteed job security but the job can be stressful because you are often overworked by managers who don't want to hire enough nurses for the facility. The pay is decent though.

>>1942674
It's a nice stable career, but levels of education really matter. A certification from nursing school is okay, but you will always be bottom of the barrel. My mother was one of these, and she couldn't find a job around 2012. So keep in mind that it's not assured employment.

If you go up to an RN (it's not a degree, it's more of a way to say you're a very experienced/qualified nurse) then you'll have good job security, and a salary that makes you less dependent on your spouse.

I know another woman who has a master's in nursing, and makes 6 figures. I'd put the payscale at something like

>certified
30k
>bachelors
45k
>masters
70k

With an RN adding around 7k to each of these.
Overall I'd say it's an okay field if you want to break into health-care, but don't like business or med-school. However, there are other factors, such as gender, which people will make fun of you for. (and you won't be making enough money to laugh back at them)

Just remember that it's a lot of physical work, and not the greatest hours. It's a very respectful job, but you'll feel pretty underappreciated. Just see it as a way to earn a good salary, and have better than average job security. But it's not going to make you a millionaire.

>>1942674
What country are you in? This matters a lot

>>1942674
source

In a socialist country, no. In a communist country, no. In a capitalist country with a student loan, no.

But if you pay for your own college and then stick to the job for the rest of your life, while enjoying the idea of being covered in blood, urine, and feces every day while having to walk into rooms with dead bodies, knock yourself out.

>>1943907
This guy has it right.

My friend became an RN from just an associates from a community college. As long as you pass the nursing boards, it doesn't really matter if you have a AS or BS, you'll start at the same job (which was 65k/year). Then he started working on his BS because the hospital paid for it.