ADN

[itsthatgirldj]

So im in my nursing program in MA and its an associates program however, you can continue for another $30,000+ (books fees etc) for the bachelors. I recently got hired at a very prestigious hospital but the floor manager already informed me before i got the job that this hospitals do not hire new grads and many of the CNA to RN's leave my position because of this. So after talking to a lot of nurses that work there, they pretty much informed me that most if not all of the major hospitals require a bachelors as well as experience. I guess my question is would I have to start at a nursing home and work my way up or is there any other way to bypass these problems? Ive worked and trained in a few nursing homes and I absolutely hate it and do not want to be miserable as a nurse.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

I think it's unrealistic to say that price should not be a factor in people's decisions. Of course it should, especially when many nurses spend several months or even a year+ looking for their first nursing job.

Your point is remarkably salient. In an icy employment marketplace where securing one's first nursing job has taken a year or longer for some new nurses, it is the graduates with intractable student loan debt who are placed in a world of hurt for the first decade of their careers.

They cannot afford to be employed for long, nor can they make waves or rock the boat at their workplaces. However, I do not have those worries because I have no student loan debt and enough money in the bank on which to live for 5+ years if something catastrophic happened.