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Is there such a thing?

Anyone heard of a dead end nursing career? Someone recently told me that at her hospital there was no room for advancement unless someone quit or died... I thought people could get promoted easily If they did their time?!

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    What do you mean by promotion? We're all staff nurses where I work. There isn't really a ladder there.

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    I found no room for growth whatsoever in my hospital job.

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    Like regular floor nurse can't move up,? Like to charge or something in management. If you are a floor nurse BSN or ADN where can you advance to in a hospital? Just wondering, I feel bad for her because she does not want to quit but she wants to move up where she is now. She has been there 15 years in the floor.

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    Managers don't tend to leave often. I was a hospital nurse for nearly 5 years and didn't move anywhere. I've been at my current job for just over a year and have already received a promotion.

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    If a staff is stable and the leadership team stays in their jobs, then there can be few promotions to be had -- UNLESS a nurse is willing to try a new specialty, new employer, new role, etc. Sometimes, advancing in a nursing career may require getting some additional education or even a physical move to another town -- just like it does in other professions. Opportunities for advancement are not automatic or even necessarily available in every place of employment.

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    If you get the education, experience and credentials and are willing to relocate you can find something somewhere in management if that's what you want to do. After you get your foot in the door of management you can try to work your way up from there or transfer/relocate as needed to advance.

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    If people just got automatically promoted after X number of years without waiting for a position to become vacant, there's be WAY too many managers. That's not unique to hospital nursing.

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    Thanks for your responses, I guess then looking elsewhere is the best way to move up then.

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    Where I work a lot of the management aren't nurses.If they are they have gotten their Masters or an MBA.

    Where do you think nurses would get promoted to? If it was just done on the basis of how long you had worked then there wouldn't be very many on the floor. I work with many that have been nursing 30 + years and are floor nurses.

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    At my hospital, you have to wait until someone retires or dies. Then, you have to be kin to somebody, or have to have worked there for 30 years. Most of our upper management aren't even nurses. Middle management usually is, but most don't necessarily have much actual hands-on nursing experience.

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    No, not saying everyone should get promoted. Those that want that opportunity should get it. There are a surprising amount of nurses I know that want to stay floor nurses.

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    Trust me management isn't what it's cracked up to be...you think you get blamed for everything? Be a manager.

    But yes sometimes to move up you need to change facilites

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