Hospitals hiring BSN & Obamacare

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I'm wondering, with Obamacare gearing up to begin next year and baby boomers getting ready to retire, would hospitals potentially revert back to hiring ADNs again? Where I live, pretty much all of the hospitals only hire BSNs and it's discouraging as I would like to get my ADN first.

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Picky can be good. Taking the wrong nursing job can be worse than not working in nursing. LTC can be extremely dangerous to a new grad's license. When things go really badly, the Board of Nursing doesn't care if you're overwhelmed, overworked, or had an inadequate orientation.

Picky can be good, if you can afford to be picky. Not everyone can afford to sit around unemployed for a year or more waiting for their dream job to come around. No one is saying you should work in a horrible LTC facility, but I know plenty of new grads that worked in LTC and did just fine. The people I'm talking about are the ones who only want 1st shift and only want to work in NICU, ICU, ER as a new grad and refuse to take anything else. Yeah, you may be lucky and get a job in that speciality, or you may be waiting awhile. If you can afford to wait for your dream job and dream shift to come, then awesome! But most new grads have bills to pay and need to take what they can get. You just need to know what your financial situation is and how long you can afford to be unemployed waiting to get that dream job.

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Specializes in Hospital Education Coordinator.

The push is for BSN to be entry level for all hospital nurses by 2020. Patients are more acutely ill than in the past and more is expected of the nurse, so additional education is a plus. When my grandmother was a nurse in the early 20th century most "nurses" were not even nursing school graduates. They learned on the job (which consisted of tasks more similar to a CNA now). I will soon retire and have seen many changes in nursing education. It is a dynamic industry

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
The push is for BSN to be entry level for all hospital nurses by 2020.

*** The push is coming from the IOM. You know the organization that is STILL spouting the false "nursing shortage" propaganda.

Patients are more acutely ill than in the past and more is expected of the nurse, so additional education is a plus.

*** I agree completely. However the type of additional education that is being pushed isn't the right kind. We end up with grads who are helpless despite their degree.

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

*** I agree completely. However the type of additional education that is being pushed isn't the right kind. We end up with grads who are helpless despite their degree.

Amen to that.

While I dont mind the idea of being a BSN entry level job, since we are pushing to be thought of more of a professional status, the education the nurses are getting needs a huge reform. Stop teaching to pass the nclex and teach to be nurses on the floor.

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Specializes in Emergency.

*** The push is coming from the IOM. You know the organization that is STILL spouting the false "nursing shortage" propaganda.

*** I agree completely. However the type of additional education that is being pushed isn't the right kind. We end up with grads who are helpless despite their degree.

Preach it brother!

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I live in Washington State :)

Come down to California, ADNs welcome - as a new grad it is tough to get a job here, but with the baby boomer nurses hopefully starting to retire in larger numbers at some point in the next few years hopefully the new grads will start getting picked up quicker than they have been. So much of it really is who you know, or where you already are. I have been stubborn in refusing to give up my current job because it puts me in a good position to meet prospective future managers... that is if I can get through this program!

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Come down to California, ADNs welcome - as a new grad it is tough to get a job here, but with the baby boomer nurses hopefully starting to retire in larger numbers at some point in the next few years hopefully the new grads will start getting picked up quicker than they have been. So much of it really is who you know, or where you already are. I have been stubborn in refusing to give up my current job because it puts me in a good position to meet prospective future managers... that is if I can get through this program!

I wouldn't recommend a new grad ADN to come to California, along with the baby boomers there are tons(esp. So Cali) of Universities pumping out new grad BSNs

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Specializes in Forensic Psych.
Come down to California ADNs welcome - as a new grad it is tough to get a job here, but with the baby boomer nurses hopefully starting to retire in larger numbers at some point in the next few years hopefully the new grads will start getting picked up quicker than they have been. So much of it really is who you know, or where you already are. I have been stubborn in refusing to give up my current job because it puts me in a good position to meet prospective future managers... that is if I can get through this program![/quote']

So they like ADNs but they won't hire you.

I wouldn't pack my bags and head west.

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97% of my ADN program graduates find a job within one year. I think most of these comments are biased to people with BSN's that feel vastly superior despite taking the same exam. Cool go for a BSN. I respect that. We'll do more clinicals at my program than a BSN and there is no real reason to suspect we'll be out performed. I guess it just depends on the program. Yes, more health care equals a nursing shortage. The truth is without a nursing shortage employers can be more critical of what they accept. Why not get better? trained staff when the pay is the same and you can pick and choose. The forecast for Nursing is a 24% increase in jobs from here until 2020. At some point, especially as the economy warms up they will have to choose ADNs. You've gone through no less RN school, my school takes 4-5 years to get it all done with the pre-reqs. You are just missing some non essential management classes. Hang in there, try intern programs, and definitely get a BSN. From what I've heard on here it's very fulfilling.

Lot's of Love. And BSN's you rock, just remember that some of us can't afford to pay for Universities and have to do it with a bridge, no need to get cocky.

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Come down to California, ADNs welcome - as a new grad it is tough to get a job here, but with the baby boomer nurses hopefully starting to retire in larger numbers at some point in the next few years hopefully the new grads will start getting picked up quicker than they have been. So much of it really is who you know, or where you already are. I have been stubborn in refusing to give up my current job because it puts me in a good position to meet prospective future managers... that is if I can get through this program!

How can you advise someone on this? Are you currently working as an ADN In magnet hospital?

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
Come down to California, ADNs welcome - as a new grad it is tough to get a job here, but with the baby boomer nurses hopefully starting to retire in larger numbers at some point in the next few years hopefully the new grads will start getting picked up quicker than they have been. So much of it really is who you know, or where you already are. I have been stubborn in refusing to give up my current job because it puts me in a good position to meet prospective future managers... that is if I can get through this program!
Currently California has 47% unemployment rate for new gads......
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