Is it true that a BSN will be mandatory soon?

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An instructor of mine (I'm in another state) stated that she recently went to a national educators conference and that they were saying that within the next several years in NY it would be mandatory to have your BSN. Does anyone know anything about this? Thanks

That rumor has been going on for forever, and many "deadlines" have been rumored, but never came true. The nursing shortage is too great to turn away qualified graduate RN's.

It's similar to the rumor that the world was supposed to end in 1984, and 2000, and 2012. In reality, it ain't happenin'.

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This is a variant on the phase LPN's out by ???? rumor. ND tried this and the law was repealed in pretty short order d/t the shortge of nurses it created......

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The growth of the Accelerated BSN programs is only to help fill the gap in numbers for the pending nurse retirement boom...

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Twenty or so yrs. ago, and every so often now, they say they will do away with LPN's too. I never went way back when because of it. Now I'm 41 and just starting.

What would they do to LPN's if they got rid of ADN's?

When will this end?

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Silly rumor...not a chance.

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Oh, didn't they try that in one of the Canadian providences back in '90s? Didn't it cause a nursing shortage? Wasn't the American born nurse who gave them the idea given the boot in disgrace? I am trying to remember exactly what happened. Does anyone remember the details? It was 10 years ago or more and my memory is not what it used to be.

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With a nursing shortage ADN's are just as competent as BSN's.

Wouldn't worry about it. They have been rumoring this for years.

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I've been hearing this for 30 years. BTW I have a BA and and ADN. and yes my AD reads Technical Nursing. So on paper I should never have become a team leader, ANM, preceptor, DON, Health Handicap Coordinator at Head Start. I shouldn't teach CPR, work in PACU. gosh all the stuff I could have avoided........NCLEX chose to licence TWO kinds of Nurses. And I am one of them.

Tell your friend that such a startling change would be in black and white and probably on the front page of the newspaper and included as a MUST READ in your BON newsletter. Ask him to bring the documentation to you. NO black and white....no truth to the fantasy story. Now go get some rest and sleep tight.

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I thought this ol' BSN only route to entry into nursing went the way of primary nursing in the 1980s -- early 1990s (and having only 3 patients for total care!) as hospitals started laying off nurses to cut costs.

Whether or not a BSN should be the portal of entry is another question that will never be agreed on. In today's health care climate and nursing shortage, which will get much worse over the next few decades, it is really, really stupid to even consider it. Unless all ADN programs can have a magic wand waved over them, maybe add another class or two, and voila! They are all BSN programs! And grandmother in all other ADNs.

Hospitals are lucky to get enough warm vertical bodies with licenses, as another poster said, to fill their positions!

Ain't likely to happen in our lifetime.

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Also got to thinking...

BSN opens nurses up to more opportunities away from bedside nursing. ADN kinda keeps you stuck at the bedside.

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Also got to thinking...

BSN opens nurses up to more opportunities away from bedside nursing. ADN kinda keeps you stuck at the bedside.

I don't know about that. Most of our supervisors are ADN or diploma RNs. They have a lot of ICU experience. They supervise and direct BSNs.

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Also got to thinking...

BSN opens nurses up to more opportunities away from bedside nursing. ADN kinda keeps you stuck at the bedside.

Can you get into a BSN completion program? Or, if you are interested in a master's degree, there are more and more ADN to MSN bridge programs out there.

I think nursing's a practice profession, any way you look at it, so the ADN can be/is as great a nurse or supervisor as the BSN (let's not get into that ADN vs BSN discussion, please -- there's pros and cons to each type of education, at least the way they are set up in the USA) .... I think what is be important is having a bachelor's degree as a credential to get ahead, no matter in which field your bachelor's is in, whether it be business or nursing or english or whatever .... This is just a fact of life these days. I know there are exceptions, but having a four year or more college degree is a prerequisite more and more to advancement. (Not always in nursing, however, as pointed out.)

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