Can a bachelors degree in other areas affect pay?

I asked this question on the student general board. Just wanted to know from you guys.

Out of curiosity, I currently have a BA and I will be finishing my MBA this year. I just got accepted to a nursing program for Spring 2012. Is there anyone who has found their degrees in other areas to be useful in their field of nursing in any capacity, like salary for instance? Has anyone been offered more money or are they still started with the standard salary. If you have, what do you do in the nursing field? I have seen many jobs as case managers, insurance companies, and things like that that I may be interested in.
Didn't do anything for me. Perhaps it impacted getting my first job (coveted position in a critical care internship); I doubt it, though.

Nothing personal but from a patient perspective I hope I never et an online educated nurse....I dont even see how its possible?

No.You won't get paid more for having a degree in another field.

Quote from mindlorNothing personal but from a patient perspective I hope I never et an online educated nurse....I dont even see how its possible?

Having the MBA might be useful if you ever want to go into management, though you'll still need several years experience as an RN first. The other BA is pretty much irrelevant. I have a PhD in another field and I don't get paid a penny more because of it (didn't expect to). I think having another degree in a different field only helps if it's closely related to the field of nursing you go into. For example, one of the other students in my nursing program had a masters degree in gerontology and this helped her to get her a management position at an assisted living facility. Having a BA in psych might help you get a job as a psych nurse (but not any additional pay).

Quote from cljonesfuturenurseI asked this question on the student general board. Just wanted to know from you guys.Out of curiosity, I currently have a BA and I will be finishing my MBA this year. I just got accepted to a nursing program for Spring 2012. Is there anyone who has found their degrees in other areas to be useful in their field of nursing in any capacity, like salary for instance? Has anyone been offered more money or are they still started with the standard salary. If you have, what do you do in the nursing field? I have seen many jobs as case managers, insurance companies, and things like that that I may be interested in.

I'm a second degree BSN. I've been working as a nurse for 25 years, working professionally 40 years. In nursing, I never got an extra dime for my non-nursing academic career. However, I HAVE gotten extra money for my BSN. I had sort of expected that my prior degrees would add up to some $ in my nursing career but that just never happened for me.

Hopkins gives new grads credit for past work experience that requires use of a previous bachelors degree. For every 3 years of work experience in your prior field, they give you 1 year pay increase.

Afraid not. BA degrees are not exactly rare anymore, and there are a lot of people who were taught to "go to college". People went to college with little thought towards career plans afterwards graduated with degrees that do not lead to a good job. So, then many of these new college grads enroll in nursing school or elsewhere to acquire marketable skills.About half of my nursing school class in community college had college degrees.

The only thing my previous degree has done for me is make me get selected ahead of others for nusing school. I start my first position in January and my previous degree didn't even come up in the interview. I was offered the traditional salary at that institution for a new graduate nurse.

Well, my previous project management experience has allowed me to move up the clinical ladder by chairing/managing the hospital's nursing information management committee. Not much to do with my prior degree but more about knowing how to actually manage a project with over 100 items in the hopper. Got a raise, takes about 2 hours a month, works for me.