What is the best way to go after high school to become a RN?
Depends on whether you want a bachelor’s degree or you’re comfortable with just an RN. The bachelor’s degree (BSN) is my recommended route, if you’re interested in going to a four-year college/university. Many large public universities will have this major. You’ll take classes related to nursing (pharmacology, anatomy and physiology, etc) in addition to liberal arts classes like English and mathematics. During your last two years you’ll do clinical rotations, which will give you nursing experience. At the end of four years you’ll have a bachelor’s degree, which will give you a lot of flexibility — you can become a nurse, go into nursing administration after getting some experience, or even go back to get an MSN or Ph.D and become a nursing professor/instructor. Or you can do the RN. Under this model you’d go to school for 2-3 years and mainly take only the classes that are directly relevant to nursing. You won’t have a degree at the end of your studies and will have less flexibility;
