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If you have a bachelors degree already, a BSN might be useless, honestly. Essentially, the BSN means that you have a bachelor's degree with the first two years of basic studies and the second two years are essentially what you do to get your RN. It's an RN with a bachelor's degree, from what I understand. You can check with an academic advisor on that to be certain though.
I'm not a nurse but as both an Occupational Therapist and an IT person in health care research, I've worked with nurses for 22 years. I don't see the kind of cattiness you refer to as much on medical floors as I do in the corporate/business end of medical research. I think most people who go into nursing like people and are caregivers so you see less of that.
From my own observations, I would say the hardest things about nursing are (not necessarily in this order) 1) being on your feet for 8-12 hours a day 2) crappy shifts until you get some seniority, unless you like working nights/afternoons 3) having to work weekends and holidays 4) having to deal with people dying and 5) many hospitals are severely understaffed
On the plus side, working 3-12 hour shifts a week sounds nice to me. Yeah, those three days are really demanding but then you don't have to go in again (*except* they will call you and beg you to do overtime a lot, but then the money is very good too!) There is some flexibility as hospitals try to accomodate nurses. A lot of nurses I know work one job full time and then are in a pool somewhere else. They may work 3-12's at the full time job and then pick up a couple 8 hour shifts as a pool nurse. They rake in the money, but they work very hard too.
The hard thing about doing nursing school while working is the clinicals. I'm not sure how you'd schedule those unless your job is kind of flexible.
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