Hospitals Hiring only Nurses with BSN Degree

[nlhnurse1982]

Has anyone heard of hospitals hiring only nurses with their BSN? I was told that a hospital in my area was doing this and also making all of their RN's that don't hold the degree go back and complete it with in 5 years. I hope this is not the case. If that is something that becomes mandated we will have one heck of a nursing shortage down the road!

[llg, PhD, RN]

i've seen quite a bit of "bsn strongly preferred" and i have also seen a couple bsn required. if they do start to require all adn's to get their bsn, i hope they plan of paying for it. yikes.

another reason for hospitals to prefer to hire nurses with their bsn's already completed. if they hire nurses with adn's, they not only have to pay the same salary (or nearly), those adn's are more likely to use the tuition benefits. they are also more likely to have special scheduling needs that will want to have accommodations for. that makes it easier and cheaper to hire bsn's to begin with.

i haven't seen actual numbers on that ... but it is a part of the situation.

[NeoNurseTX, RN]

Magnet hospitals do that. I am not a fan.

[Up2nogood RN, RN]

Magnet hospitals do that. I am not a fan.

I have my ADN and work at a magnet hospital, and there have been no mandates on getting BSN. They do still hire ADN's but 'prefer' BSN's.

[PMFB-RN, RN]

I work in a 26 bed SICU. Our hospital has a 7 month nurse residency program to train new grads into the SICU and MICU. Lately they have gotten very picky about who they hire. When I went through 4 years ago my class of 9 had only one ADN prepared nurse in the class, me. This year they only hired 5 new grads and none of them have BSNs, all ADN. They are activly selecting out new grad BSN prepared nurses in favor of ADNs.

Of my class of 9 that went through 4 years ago 7 have gone to or are in CRNA school. Several did not complete their 2 year contract to go to CRNA school. Following classes have been similar. Our manager and experienced preceptors are tired of training up new grads only to have them go off to CRNA school right away. As far as I can tell the "cream of the crop" our unit is looking for is ADN prepared RNs with very strong links to the local community, thus likely to stay longer. This is a Magnet hospital.

[llg, PhD, RN]

I work in a 26 bed SICU. Our hospital has a 7 month nurse residency program to train new grads into the SICU and MICU. Lately they have gotten very picky about who they hire. When I went through 4 years ago my class of 9 had only one ADN prepared nurse in the class, me. This year they only hired 5 new grads and none of them have BSNs, all ADN. They are activly selecting out new grad BSN prepared nurses in favor of ADNs.

Of my class of 9 that went through 4 years ago 7 have gone to or are in CRNA school. Several did not complete their 2 year contract to go to CRNA school. Following classes have been similar. Our manager and experienced preceptors are tired of training up new grads only to have them go off to CRNA school right away. As far as I can tell the "cream of the crop" our unit is looking for is ADN prepared RNs with very strong links to the local community, thus likely to stay longer. This is a Magnet hospital.

Yes, that's the "other side of the coin" in hiring new BSN grads. More ADN new grads will have to stay at the bedside longer because they don't have as many other options available. Thus, the ADN grads may be more expensive to employ as they use the tuition benefits, but they may save money in the long run as they are more likely to stay at the bedside.

The ICU in my hospital has seen some similar issues.

As I said in my earlier post, we need some real numbers on these things. It's a shame there aren't more people actually doing research on these things.

[PMFB-RN, RN]

Yes, that's the "other side of the coin" in hiring new BSN grads. More ADN new grads will have to stay at the bedside longer because they don't have as many other options available. Thus, the ADN grads may be more expensive to employ as they use the tuition benefits, .

*** Well the administration of my hospital is a jump ahead of you. Several weeks ago we received an email informing us the hospital is discontinuing it's tuition benefits program.

[pageygirl]

I hope that my hospital wont discontinue the tuition reimbursement i have 16 credits left and just came back from a loa at school due to problems at my husbands job hey at 395 a credit hour i need that 5000 a year which wont cover everything but it will help

most nurses that work on my unit tele are working on thier bsn's if they dont have them many are thinking about grad school due to the stress of working on the floor mentally as well as physically. i know the hospitals with more money in my area perfer bsn

[vivacious1healer]

I have my ADN and work at a magnet hospital, and there have been no mandates on getting BSN. They do still hire ADN's but 'prefer' BSN's.

Same here! They advertise BSN preferred, but they continue to hire ADNs....especially those with experience! Magnet and Academic Hospital.

I do believe some day I will return to complete my BSN, but not now when the economy is so bad, and being the bread winner. Every $ counts.

Our hospital is laying off nurse staff educators, APN and NP right and left. No one is safe.

When I completed my ADN degree, I did so without any loans. I surely don't want one now in case I'm the next one to get a pink slip. No thanx!