Chance of ADN to get a Hospital Job?

melmarie23, MSN, RN · May 17, 2011

ADNs are the majority in my hospital. Though we are on the magnet journey, so they are pressing for those ADNs to further their education. But in my state, ADN programs dominate over BSN and MSN, so there really isnt much of a choice not to hire any.

this is going to vary demographically though.

CrunchyMama, ASN, RN · May 17, 2011

That's not true around here....ADNs get hired perfectly fine. Depends on where you are I suppose.

my4helpers · May 17, 2011

Although I am not in NS yet, (my letter will be here within a week) I often visit my local hospitals websites and click on Employment. It seems that most state BSN preferred! My plan (so far) is to graduate May 2013 and that is if I get in this fall, then go right back for my BSN. In fact, I will more than likely take summer classes as soon as I graduate.

my4helpers · May 17, 2011

I just looked at one of the hospitals that I am hoping to work at upon graduation and they all say BSN preferred. Hopefully, if they see me working on my BSN, it will be OK?? I do have a relative that is a charge nurse on one of the floors so maybe she would be able to help as well.

melmarie23, MSN, RN · May 17, 2011

preferred =/= required. just apply and then when interviewing, let them know you are working toward the BSN or that you have plans to go on.

iPink, BSN, RN · May 17, 2011

It definitely depends on where you are located. This semester I have clinical at 2 different hospitals and at orientation to those hospitals, when the staff found out we were BSN students, they shared with us that their hospitals will no longer hire ADNs. The current ADNs are going back for their BSN.

I, however, was a bit surprised when one of the nurses who has 20+ years of nursing experience as an ADN said if for some reason she was ever laid off, she thinks she'll have a tough time finding another job because she lacked a BSN. I assumed, experience trumped a new grad BSN.

metal_m0nk, BSN, RN · May 17, 2011

I have a hospital job now and I'm not even finished with my ADN yet - just wrapping up my first year. They hired me part time with a plan to hire me full time in nursing once I finish my degree.

Sorry to say, but your instructor is full of it.

nalaa83 · May 17, 2011

Yeah it hard, in my school the clinical are limited because some of the hospitals do not want us because we are a ADN program as oppose to our BSN counterparts. We have the left over hospitals like city hospitals, nursing home. None of my clinicals are in private hospitals.

nalaa83 · May 17, 2011

You say you have a hospital job but what I am talking about is working in the hospital as a RN with and Associates degree. They are more likely to hire a BSN.

nalaa83 · May 17, 2011

I have a hospital job now and I'm not even finished with my ADN yet - just wrapping up my first year. They hired me part time with a plan to hire me full time in nursing once I finish my degree.
Sorry to say, but your instructor is full of it.

You say you have a hospital job but what I am talking about is working in the hospital as a RN with and Associates degree. They are more likely to hire a BSN.

metal_m0nk, BSN, RN · May 18, 2011

You say you have a hospital job but what I am talking about is working in the hospital as a RN with and Associates degree. They are more likely to hire a BSN.

They hired me part time with a plan to hire me full time in nursing once I finish my degree.

Right now I'm a nursing assistant. I'll have a job there as an RN when I graduate with my ADN.

They're a teaching hospital and I do plan to continue my education. But because I have a Bachelor's in another field, I'll be going straight for my MSN and they will pay a substantial portion of my tuition.