Can ADN nurses land jobs in the NICU?

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Okay first of all I DO NOT MEAN for this to become yet another ADN/BSN bash....I genuinely have a question.

I am taking prerequisite courses to get into a community college RN program. This is my last semester of prereqs, so i'm good to go.

I am an aspiring NICU nurse. I have been browsing these boards and it seems that many NICU's are hiring BSN's only? Is this true?

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

Not in my facility. RN = RN.

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Specializes in Telemetry, CCU.

You should be able to get any bedside nursing job with an ADN, critical care areas included. Many job postings may say BSN preferred, but few hospitals actually require it (maybe Magnet hospitals do).

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Specializes in Psych.

I know someone who graduated in May with an ADN and is working the NICU right now.

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Specializes in Oncology/BMT.

I am a diploma graduate. I graduated with people who landed jobs in areas such as the OR, outpatient surgery, NICU, burn/trauma ICU, L & D, and dialysis right out of school. I work in a Magnet hospital that has a school of nursing and hires many diploma and ADN nurses, including the NICU.

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thanks everyone! I thought that ADN nurses could get NICU jobs, I guess I was just getting scared by some of the trolls :)

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Specializes in ob/gyn med /surg.

of course ADN's can get NICU jobs... a RN is a RN ... i am a BSN and know plenty of RN ADN's that work NICU... as long as you have RN after your name you can work NICU...

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Specializes in ob/gyn med /surg.
Not in my facility. RN = RN.

a RN is a ADN and a RN is a BSN,,, a Rn is a Rn and therefore can work NICU .. i am a BSN , RN and know plenty of RN, ADN's that work NICU..... where do you work where a RN is not a ADN? RN's ADN and BSN both take the same boards.. we are RN's.... we do the same job...

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Specializes in Nurse Scientist-Research.

Magnet means virtually nothing per my experience. Lots of fancy paperwork that is well filled out. Magnet hospitals do hire any kind of RN they can get. Of course they "encourage" BSN.

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Specializes in Acute Care Psych, DNP Student.

The Magnet hospital in my area is hiring mostly BSNs since the economy went to crap.

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