Hiring outlook for ADN vs. BSN in your town?

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Hey y'all,

I am wondering what the job outlook is like in your town for an ADN vs. a BSN. Are hospitals still as willing to hire ADNs? ADNs, how fast were you able to find work when you graduated? Where are y'all located? I am in the Dallas, TX area and would love if anyone had any information on this area specifically. I am getting ready to apply to school (I will probably apply for an ADN program and a BSN program to cover all my bases)... I've read more than once that BSN is really the way to go in Dallas and need some feedback! Thanks!!

I believe my hosptal in Garland is only hiring BSNs now.

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Two classmates have talked to Med Ctr of Plano and Medical City recruiters. Both were were informed only BSN need apply for the upcoming internships.

UTSW will still take 2 year RNs, as will Parkland, Methodist Richardson and Med Ctr of McKinney. Baylor, Presby/THR both say no to ADN as well from what I am seeing.

There's going to be a pretty tight scramble for those internships that will accept ADN it sounds like.

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I feel like most schools would not even still have existing federally and state funded ADN nursing programs if there was going to be a dramatic "by the year 2018" all hospitals are going to only hire BSN nurses. That would be a total waste of government granted and federally financial aided money to people and with budgets, elections, and colleges showing legitimate funding reasons needed it would be a total hipocracy for then to suddenly say oh no only BSN nurses can work in hospitals. There are not enough LTC facilities to support educating all the ADN nursing students, and the government okays the amount of medicare and medicaid bed facilities in a given area. So it is not like the government is going to then turn around and say oh yeah all the money we funded for the education of ADN RN's will be supported by new jobs created by immediate federal and state funded nursing homes that are going to be approved and built by 2018. So unless BSN's are wanted by the military for service, why would this huge rush of "only BSN's for all hospitals in the USA by a certain year" be true.

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I feel like most schools would not even still have existing federally and state funded ADN nursing programs if there was going to be a dramatic "by the year 2018" all hospitals are going to only hire BSN nurses. That would be a total waste of government granted and federally financial aided money to people and with budgets, elections, and colleges showing legitimate funding reasons needed it would be a total hipocracy for then to suddenly say oh no only BSN nurses can work in hospitals. There are not enough LTC facilities to support educating all the ADN nursing students, and the government okays the amount of medicare and medicaid bed facilities in a given area. So it is not like the government is going to then turn around and say oh yeah all the money we funded for the education of ADN RN's will be supported by new jobs created by immediate federal and state funded nursing homes that are going to be approved and built by 2018. So unless BSN's are wanted by the military for service, why would this huge rush of "only BSN's for all hospitals in the USA by a certain year" be true.

You may not think there are enough LTC facilities to justify educating ADN nurses, but nurses at those facilities are generally spread insanely thin. And I think ADN programs are still going to be around as the shift starts moving toward BSN-prepared nurses in hospitals, because getting an ADN and then bridging to a BSN is a lot more feasible for people on a budget. Also, I wasn't really asking if we all think that the government is going to somehow mandate that nurses in hospitals need to have a BSN, I was asking what the hiring looked like across the country for BSN vs. ADN. It varies widely by region, and as you can see in not.done.yet's post, it even varies within each city.

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Personally, in the current hiring enviornment, I think anybody who is considering BSN vs ADN needs to go for a BSN. I know in my city, most of the major hospitals are BSN only, and even those that look at ADN's, only a small percent of new grads have an ADN.

I just graduated with a BSN a couple months back and a large amount of people in my class are still searching for jobs. In addition, the people I've spoken to who graduated with ADN's in the last couple years mentioned how many of their classmates took months or even over a year to find a hospital job. A lot of them had to resort to working in a LTC facility while they waited. I've read San Antonio is a little more ADN friendly, but DFW and Houston is brutal right now even for BSN's.

I think the extra pre-reqs and time are more than worth the better job prospects. If you can in any way make it work, go for the BSN.

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