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post #1 of 15
7/27/12 at 9:30am
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Some hospitals and some states will not hire you as a nurse in a hospital if you only have a 2 year degree. If you are going to nursing school at a community college check around to see if hospitals have limited their hiring to BSN nurses. 

 

Some hospitals are making it a condition of your employment that you be working towards your BSN if you just have an ADN to stay working for that hospital.

 

The hospital I work at has at times limited their hiring to BSN nurses. 

 

If you are on the wait list at a community college see if it would make more sense from a financial standpoint to go to a 4 year college. Some people are on wait lists for more than that. It will cost more up front, but you will be out in the work force sooner. 

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post #2 of 15
7/27/12 at 9:32am
And even if they do hire them, in my experience they won't promote them. Many will have a BSN as a requirement for a management position.
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post #3 of 15
7/27/12 at 9:35am
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Originally Posted by aliadam View Post

And even if they do hire them, in my experience they won't promote them. Many will have a BSN as a requirement for a management position.

 

At the hospital I work at you have to have a master's or be working towards it to work in management. 

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post #4 of 15
7/27/12 at 9:36am

I have heard alot about this lately, as of now here where I live their still hiring alot of RN's
 

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post #5 of 15
7/27/12 at 10:03am
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At the hospital I work at you have to have a master's or be working towards it to work in management. 

WOW!! Even for just a shift manager or floor manager? I know they wanted master's where I live for people who were going to be directors and things, but not just unit managers. I got a master's degree, but IU School of Nursing is the largest (or was...maybe now just one of the largest) nursing schools in the country so Indianapolis was flooded with bachelor's and master's degree nurses. I would think most smaller areas (not talking about you) would not be able to have that sort of requirement.
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post #6 of 15
7/27/12 at 10:04am
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Originally Posted by team-edward View Post

I have heard alot about this lately, as of now here where I live their still hiring alot of RN's

 

I think she wasn't talking about hiring RN's so much as to what KIND of RN's they wanted to hire.....ASN vs. BSN.
Edited by aliadam - 7/27/12 at 10:09am
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post #7 of 15
7/27/12 at 10:51am

Yes even the management just need to be an rn but some want prior experience
 

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post #8 of 15
7/27/12 at 2:25pm

Most nursing homes though will hire  LPNs .  I know that the home I worked in thats all they hired because the RNs were trying to get into the hosptials.  Just depends on what you are willing to settle for I suppose.
 

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post #9 of 15
7/27/12 at 6:31pm
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Most nursing homes though will hire  LPNs .  I know that the home I worked in thats all they hired because the RNs were trying to get into the hosptials.  Just depends on what you are willing to settle for I suppose.

 

That's true that most nursing homes are staffed mostly by LPNs and just aides. I think deemom was talking about nursing in hospitals though.
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post #10 of 15
7/27/12 at 7:36pm
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Yes some hospitals are hiring only nurses with a BSN (4 year education). 

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