Any ASN nurses working in hospitals?

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Specializes in Post Acute, Home, Inpatient, Hospice/Pall Care.

I am about to move into the hospital field nursing. Since graduating I have done sub-acute, child psych, private homecare and hospice and palliative care. It will be interesting to go from on the road to on the unit!

Any experiences you want to share would be great!

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I am about to move into the hospital field nursing. Since graduating I have done sub-acute, child psych, private homecare and hospice and palliative care. It will be interesting to go from on the road to on the unit!

Any experiences you want to share would be great!

I am a new grad. I was just offered a position at Holyoke Medical Center as an RN on the IMC unit. Community hospitals tend to hire ADNs. Good luck.

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Specializes in Post Acute, Home, Inpatient, Hospice/Pall Care.

That is great congrats, I am sure you will go great and love it! I live in SE MA and there are rarely recent ASN RN's hired in hospitals, hence my question! I am also not really a new grad, I had my 3 year mark this spring, though I still often feel new!

I start next month at a community hospital, I am starting on a m/s floor, which I am really happy about since transitioning from home care-hospice specifically will be different. I have been on the other end for so long-seeing the disease process through will palliaive care that I am pretty excited that I will be where they are still getting curative treatment. I think having done hospice taught me a lot though and I believe it will be helpful in this next phase of my career.

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Good luck, I'm sure you will do great.

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Specializes in Operating Room.

Just got hired at a hospital in Boston. I have an ASN. While I do think they considered my experience to be more valuable, I am in an online RN to BSN program, so maybe that helped.

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Specializes in Post Acute, Home, Inpatient, Hospice/Pall Care.

Congratulations! I didn't have any hospital experience and I know the fact that I only have 2 more classes before I get my BSN helped. I hope you love it! So far so good for me :D

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Hi GadgetRN71- I have been reading up on posts regarding the ASN vs BSN debate- specifically in larger cities such as Boston. I am 27 years old and hold a bachelors in Spanish and pre-med studies. I took some time after graduation to work abroad while figuring out the next step. I currently live in Syracuse, NY (upstate) and work as a bilingual medical interpreter. I am enrolled in an ASN program at a local community college and will be starting this semester. I do a lot of volunteer work here in Syracuse and work closely with many RNs and NPs. I have been convinced that an ASN is a smart choice to at begin my career in nursing. My biggest concern is that I have a substantial amount of loans from my undergrad degree and don't want to shell out 50k for an accelerated RN/BSN degree. My worry is that this advice is true to the Syracuse area, but not to other cities- especially larger cities such as Boston where the job market is more competitive. My boyfriend is finishing up his PhD and is looking at a lab in Boston for his post-doc. I do plan to pursue either RN to BSN program or a bridge program once I get my RN. How has your experience been pursuing work in Boston with an ASN. Thank you for any advice!

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Specializes in Post Acute, Home, Inpatient, Hospice/Pall Care.

Hi Kreed91, you can find a much more affordable RN to BSN program. I am in one in a traditional university and I only needed 5 courses (I have 2 associates) and it costs about $350/credit. There are also options like WGU that are based on time not credits. Good luck!

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Thank you, RN_SummerSeas! I appreciate your response. That is what I have been thinking. I would be flexible in regards to post ASN job opportunities while working on a BSN (i.e. LTC). I have lots of coursework completed that I believe would contribute to an RN to BSN program. I'm trying to be fiscally responsible and not "duplicate" what I've already done up to this point. It's easy to read some of these threads and feel as though I need to reconsider my financially conservative choice. Thanks for your help!

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Specializes in Reproductive & Public Health.

I was offered a job in LDRP at Cooley Dickinson as a new ASN grad (but I was a CPM before becoming an RN, so there's that). I also worked at Mercy's outpatient prenatal clinics in my first year as an RN, and was going to move to their LDRP unit but scrapped that idea in favor of grad school.

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Thanks for your input cayenne06! :)

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