Does your facility require a BSN?

Editorial Team / Admin · Feb 26, 2016

Have you looked at some of the job postings at facilities in your area? They will frequently state this information.

NurseEmmy · Feb 26, 2016

I have. What a job ad says, and what employers actually require can be different. I'm not trying to ask for specific employer names, just in general kinda curious how many places in IN are requiring this. I did just see a job posting for an LPN in a Peds/Med Surg position, which is interesting to me.

meanmaryjean, DNP, RN · Mar 3, 2016

I work at the only major player in the Indy market that will still hire ADNs for inpatient positions. BUT they require a BSN within 3 years (it might be five- I cannot recall right now).

This player also does not hire LPNs for inpatient any longer.

cracklingkraken, ASN, RN · Mar 3, 2016

Northern IN also hires ADNs on the contingency that they complete their BSN within 3 years.

dreamer30 · Mar 5, 2016

Think as long as it's accredited you meet the criteria. You just have to have your BSN in so many years...it varies.

ashrose1992 · Mar 5, 2016

Fort Wayne has two different hospital networks that each own multiple hospitals. Lutheran Health Network hires ASNs and requires no BSN. Parkview Health will hire ASNs but requires that they obtain their BSN within five years of their hire date.

xoemmylouox, ASN, RN · Mar 5, 2016

I saw a few LPN inpatient openings in mid Indiana.

RNtoACGNP · Mar 5, 2016

Any "magnet" status hospital will require a BSN. In the 5 years I've been a nurse, I have noticed in my area (Detroit/Metro Detroit) all of the big name hospitals are leaning towards BSN nursing staff more and more since I've graduated. They warned us of this in the ADN program but we all just thought they were scaring us into going back to school, but they were right. Granted, magnet hospitals are the only ones I know of that "require" a BSN- others just "prefer".

Editorial Team / Admin · Mar 5, 2016

Any "magnet" status hospital will require a BSN. In the 5 years I've been a nurse, I have noticed in my area (Detroit/Metro Detroit) all of the big name hospitals are leaning towards BSN nursing staff more and more since I've graduated. They warned us of this in the ADN program but we all just thought they were scaring us into going back to school, but they were right. Granted, magnet hospitals are the only ones I know of that "require" a BSN- others just "prefer".

And Magnet doesn't even have anything to do with BSN requirements. Another nursing myth that needs to be battled and vanquished. 80% of staff nurses holding a BSN comes from an IOM report on the future of nursing education. Completely separate from Magnet.

RNtoACGNP · Mar 5, 2016

I have been told that since the day I started nursing and I realize now that I was misinformed, thank you for pointing that out. I guess I have never looked far into it because 1- I don't work for a magnet and 2- I started on my BSN right away so never worried.