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Hello to all, I am currently living in Baltimore, Maryland I have been accepted to BCCC 2013 fall program. I have plans to move to North Carolina when I'm finished what are my chances of getting a job with an ADN and not the BSN in Nursing? Also, what hospitals in Charlotte or surrounding areas will hire a recent graduate with an ADN? Thanks

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Specializes in ICU.

Carolinas Medical Center hires a lot of ADNs, but they have their own ADN program so I'm not sure how many external applicants they take. Novant Health also hires ADNs, and they have several (at least three or four) Charlotte-area hospitals.

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Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.

It is my understanding that the job market for new ADN graduates is still very tight in the Charlotte area. The area hospitals are flooded annually or semi-annually with new graduates from a plethora of nursing schools. And, the hospitals do prefer BSN graduates over ADN graduates.

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If you are not committed to the Charlotte area, hospitals in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area are still hiring nurses with ADNs. I believe that many hospitals in the Triad (Greensboro-Winston Salem) area are hiring ADNs as well.

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Specializes in ICU.
If you are not committed to the Charlotte area, hospitals in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area are still hiring nurses with ADNs. I believe that many hospitals in the Triad (Greensboro-Winston Salem) area are hiring ADNs as well.

I'm not sure the Triad is a good place for ADNs. The Novant systems hospitals (Forsyth Medical Center, Kernersville Medical Center) hire them, I believe, but in smaller numbers than BSNs. I can speak from personal experience that Baptist very rarely hires anyone that's not external, and they usually have 700+ applications for just a few spots in their new grad program. Moses Cone (including Moses Cone, Wesley Long, Women's Hospital, Alamance Regional) only hires people with particular experience (at least for their critical care programs) - as in I worked there and did not get a new grad job and I have a BSN. I got offered med-surg academy but I didn't want med-surg.

There are also three BSN schools nearby that tend to pump out a lot of new BSNs every year, and the new grad programs from the area hospitals have limited spots, so I couldn't recommend the Greensboro area for ADNs.

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