I believe this information is incorrect.

Firstly, healthcare has a history of rendering qualifications obsolete as seen in ABCs/O&P and nursing. I suspect the same may eventually happen to surgical assistants. Today we have varying responsibilities and careers for nurses based on education as a result of rendering past qualifications obsolete. There various patient care plan management tasks an ADN nurse is not permitted to complete, for instance. I ask that you please consider the vast challenges faced as a nurse. There is a context of comparing both the income and the sheer amount of work by the hour. I believe that, pound to pound of flesh, teachers may earn more or roughly the same as ADNs. The posted statistics that you can find for ADNS are shewed because it includes people with constant twelve hour shifts, work in penitentiary systems with high salaries. If money was all someone cared about then an ADN is not the route to go. There is an ongoing initiative to stop so many nurses from burning out and quiting entirely. But what educators and nursing program directors cannot fix is the belief that a degree is the only way to earn money, while a nursing degree is a surefire way to earn said money.

The demands of healthcare professions are extensive and require a great deal of discipline and motivation to help others. If your primary motivation is income, then you might very well find yourself burned-out and leaving a healthcare profession.

Secondly, the starting salary for a surgical assistant is less than a BSN/RN salary, while NPs/PAs make double that amount. General cardiac or saphenous harvesting experience will increase yearly income from 50k to roughly 70k.

Cardiothoracic PAs/NPs earn six figures.