Do away with 2-year programs for nursing

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I just heard from someone that NY is soon going to be doing away with 2-year nursing programs and making you go for your 4-year. Has anyone heard this? I am currently attending classes to be accepted into a 2-year program. I am worried that this is going to happen right when I get accepted. I was hoping to do my 2-year, get a job and then do the other 2 years with an on-line school.

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Nobody really hires ASNs in NY (metropolitan and rural/upstate), unless you obtained it a loooooong time ago and are currently enrolled in a BSN.....with at least 30 credits towards completion. With all of that, might as well go for the BSN.

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I live near Buffalo. I am definately going for my BSN. I was just hoping to be working as a nurse while I was doing that.

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Due to the changes being made to The profession, most hospitals in cities arent hiring ADN nurses anymore. I would suggest you go for the BSN is you have the opportunity so that you do not spend all your time going to ADN and working where you dont want. The ADN and BSN generally take two years after your pre reqs anyways

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I totally agree, there aren't any jobs for two year degree grads in the hospital. What is the sense of having all these programs if no jobs will hire. Best thing to do is go for the BSN. All hospitals want is the BSN now. If you do a 2 year program enroll in a RN-BSN right after, that's what I am doing.

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I just heard from someone that NY is soon going to be doing away with 2-year nursing programs and making you go for your 4-year. Has anyone heard this? I am currently attending classes to be accepted into a 2-year program. I am worried that this is going to happen right when I get accepted. I was hoping to do my 2-year, get a job and then do the other 2 years with an on-line school.

There is no such thing going on.

What has happened is a law has been proposed in Albany requiring all future ADN (and the lone diploma school left in NYS), grads to obtain their BSN within ten years of graduation. You can simply Google "BSN in Ten", to find out more about the proposed change.

So far the bill has seen little movement, and even if it were passed does not phase out ADN/diploma programs directly. Current RNs, graduate nurses as well as those currently enrolled in nursing school (as of the date the law is signed), would be grandfathered under existing rules and exempt from the requirement.

Now indirectly it would be hard to say what impact such a change would have on two year programs. Many hospitals and or healthcare networks have announced they are only hiring BSN prepared nurses and or will do so in future. However this has been tried many times before, and whenever the demand for nurses strips supply a nurse is a nurse, is a nurse, and anyone with a valid license is hired. Therefore if the law is passed it remains to be seen how things will shake out.

Being as all this may, nursing education is a huge business in NYS, with ADN programs outnumbering BSN, so don't expect the former to simply roll over and die without a fight.

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Being as all this may, nursing education is a huge business in NYS, with ADN programs outnumbering BSN, so don't expect the former to simply roll over and die without a fight.

Also, the (public) community college system in each state has tremendous clout with the state legislatures; they are not going to give up their nursing programs without a fight, and they will have a lot more support within the state leges than anyone seeking to eliminate ADN programs. That's one of the reasons the "BSN only" proposals never go anywhere (the "BSN in 10" concept might be more successful because it specifically does not look to eliminate ADN programs).

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There is no such thing going on.

Being as all this may, nursing education is a huge business in NYS, with ADN programs outnumbering BSN, so don't expect the former to simply roll over and die without a fight.

Very true.

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Also not ALL nurses want to work in a hospital. That may sound strange but it's the truth.

OP, stick with your original plan. 2 year first. It's much easier to get into a BSN program once you are a RN already.

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It won't happen. Two year programs are too important to NY's economic base, and provide an essential niche for the RN profession. Even if the impossible did happen, you would be 'grandfathered' in while attending a 2 yr. program. Study hard and rest easy!

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Thats not true, where I live adns get hired before graduation. All depends where you live.

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