Do employers in your area consider GPA?

[smartnurse1982]

I want to know because while i know i must get a Bsn, there is one Rn to Bsn program that looks promising but they have pass/fail instead of a grading system.

Meanwhile,i know for sure employers in my areas do look at GPA.

My current employer does nit hire anyone with a Gpa below 3.5.

Almost all applications i have filled out required an official transcript from the schools i attended.

i know the pass equals a 3.0 at WGU.

i guess my current employer would not have hired me if i had graduated from WGU with a BSN before working for them.

[3wishes, MSN, APRN, NP]

"i wonder how a new grad ADN with a high GPA would match up against a new grad BSN with a 2.5 GPA."

SmartNurse, all other things being equal, I suspect the BSN gets the job (assuming the employer has no lower limit for GPA). IF that ADN has tech experience and the BSN has none, the ADN has the edge as an internal candidate. In my job market, at least.

GPA does become irrelevant as time passes and experience accumulates. True in most fields, correct? Not sure how much time or experience, though. Do you stop including your GPA on your resume once you have one full time position on your resume? What about those who leave their first job in a year or less?

[EodwifeRN]

None of my jobs have asked for my GPA or how many times for the NCLEX. I have worked in hospitals and in clinics.I have been in the medical field for over 15 years. To me just because you passed the NCLEX the first time or have a high GPA does not make a good or great nurse. Being a great nurse is not seen by the GPA or the NCLEX, it is seen by the care, patience and humanity that we have for our patients.

[smartnurse1982]

None of my jobs have asked for my GPA or how many times for the NCLEX. I have worked in hospitals and in clinics.I have been in the medical field for over 15 years. To me just because you passed the NCLEX the first time or have a high GPA does not make a good or great nurse. Being a great nurse is not seen by the GPA or the NCLEX, it is seen by the care, patience and humanity that we have for our patients.

That was 15 years ago though when there was a nursing shortage.

Now there is a nursing glut. Employers can pick and choose whomever they want,and it is becoming scary,at least for me anyway.

I kind of agree with you though about GPA and repeat Nclex test takers.

What i think happened in private duty homecare was that so many nurses were making fatal errors that they started to look at GPA in my area.

[smartnurse1982]

If the BSN was a LPN and/or working in healthcare before-heck even an ADN...THEN how would that match up???

Bsn to Lpn programs are extremely rare. When i did decide to become an Rn in 2006 there was only 1 that i knew of,and it was Indiana University.

The BSN grad RN's who were LPn's that i have talked too said that their employers did not take their lpn experience into account.

Others on Allnurses have said for every year they were an Lpn the employer gave them 6 months of experience. So i guess 4 years would translate into 2 yrs experience as a nurse.

When i applied to WGU last week i told the advisor I have been an Rn for 6 yrs and an Lpn for 4 years before getting the ADN degree he simply said I have been a nurse for 6 yrs and worked in some capacity as a nurse for 10 yrs.

I am assuming he did not count the years i was an lpn as "nursing".

He did request i send in trascripts from the lpn school.