Re: NY Hospitals Hire RN-BSN Only? Originally Posted by luce2008
I graduated as ASN '07, and worked in NYC since. half of the nurses on my unit are ASN. only top top hospitals hire BSN only.
True, true.
Perhaps the larger and famous hospitals in Manhattan may push for a all BSN staff, but those hospitals also have the funds to pay higher wages and also recruit nurses from all over the United States, thus aren't limited as much to the local pool of nurses. However once one goes to the NYC hospital system, and or the local hospitals in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island things are different. Even Beth Israel, not to shabby a hosptial, and just built a new school in the Garment Center area, still has a two year program
The NYC area has far more Associate programs than BSN, and the local hospitals, again especially the smaller and ones outside of Manhattan tend to recruit grads from those programs.
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