What is the difference between a bachelors degree and associates degree in nursing??

The difference between the degrees is based on the number of completed units. Typically for an Associates degree, you'll need to complete 70 units. For a Bachelors degree, you'll need between 125 to 135 units. Most general education units are 3 units sciences or anything which requires laboratory time will be more. Check with your community college to see what their requirements are. Finally, don't give up on your dream. Once you have completed the degree, the education and experience cannot be taken away from you.

Besides the difference of credits needed for graduation, a BSN will give you more opportunities in management, autonomy and responsibility. If you have a BSN, it is a less road travelled to go into teaching and be labeled as a nursing professor. It is required to have a BSN to become a CRNA and other nursing positions. However, you are still a registered nurse regardless if you have ASN or a diploma in nursing. The difference in pay between a nurse with a bachelors or associates is not that far from each other at all, and it is less than a dollar really. Honestly, you receive more clinical experience in a community college than someone who is going for the nursing program in a university because the community college's nursing program is very fast pace program and needs to give all their information all they can in only in two years. Hell in the first year already, you are already learning PEG tube and NG tube and the types of injections there are, and IV and piggy bags while a university nursing student might not even be close to that part of the curriculum yet at all in their first semester of their real nursing program. So don't worry about a head nurse rather choose a BSN graduate over a ASN graduate. If you are a nursing graduate with an associates degree or a diploma, you can always go back and it is most likely easier for you stress wise to deal with the academic nursing curriculum because you are already a RN. As long as you passed your NCLEX, you are a RN regardless what degree you have and they will never get rid of hospital based nursing programs or ASN programs either unless they are crazy, in which I doubt.