Many hospitals in our area are starting to require their most experienced and skilled nurses to go back to school and get a BSN. This ridiculous trend has been spurred by the flawed and biased research of Linda Aiken, a University of Pennsylvania professor whose research claims that hospitals staffed with more BSN nurses experience fewer deaths. Ms. Aiken probably hasn't worked on a nursing floor in a long time because the nursing managers and supervisors I spoke to are saying the opposite; that ...

Many hospitals in our area are starting to require their most experienced and skilled nurses to go back to school and get a BSN. This ridiculous trend has been spurred by the flawed and biased research of Linda Aiken, a University of Pennsylvania professor whose research claims that hospitals staffed with more BSN nurses experience fewer deaths. Ms. Aiken probably hasn't worked on a nursing floor in a long time because the nursing managers and supervisors I spoke to are saying the opposite; that ...