Registered nursing school

Question:
How hard is it to go do a RN to MSN transition program? More specifically how hard is it to get into one? It's one of the options I'm considering for myself. I chose not to get my BSN and just get my RN because I like the program at this school better. Now I’m trying to figure out what I should do. I already have my AA and I think going to school for another year or two for a BSN would be a waste at this point.

Isn't there a difference between degrees that comes from diploma school
Vs. an Associates Degree that usually comes from a community college???

Answer:

I live in Canada. I'm doing a four year course, to obtain by BSN, the first two years I spend at college getting my clinical and theory classes
(which I'm doing now), and the last two years I spend at Queens University,
in Kingston, Ontario.

Isn't there a difference between degrees that comes from diploma school
Vs. an Associates Degree that usually comes from a community college???

I think they probably are phasing out diploma schools, but schools that offer ADNs are, for the most part (I think North Dakota or one of those middle states :) only allows BSNs to practice), alive and kicking and will probably remain so for a long time. I think it probably goes around at every BSN school that they're going to eventually make BSN the entry level, but it hasn't happened yet. I'm not sure if this has clarified anything, actually.

At this present time and moment I am at a diploma school, but we have to transfer to a University that offers the BSN course. Up here there is no difference between a diploma nursing school and a community college. Also in Canada we do not have ADN courses, we go from diploma, to BSN, to Masters, Doctorate, as well as your Assisted Practitioner Nurses.
I think this is a case of culture differences the person who stated that diploma programs are being fazed out was Canadian our diploma program is a three year program at a college of applied arts and technology (I am guessing--roughly equivalent to an ADN degree? (I am guessing). Anyway, in Canada, the college programs are being fazed out because of a CNA
(Canadian Nurses Association) mandate that states that the entry to practice for nurses will be a BScN by the year 2000 as far as I can tell, they might not hit their deadline right on, but they will hit it shortly thereafter. This explains the disagreement as to whether diploma programs will be phased out our college programs are our diploma programs.

I think the main difference is mobility. It is possible for a college grad to get a job, but with cutbacks to the health care sector (remember I am
Canadian) there is a great deal of uncertainty that the job you get after grad will last for any length of time this makes it important that your credentials be acceptable to as wide a variety of employers as possible.
There are several hospitals (most notable recent addition Hospital for
Sick Kids in Toronto, Ontario---really huge teaching hospital) will not hire diploma nurses nor will they allow students in diploma programs to do clinical in their hospitals the writing is on the wall as far as I am concerned If I want to be able to get a job I have to have what employers want and in Canada at least that is AT LEAST a BScN