labor and delivery/ post partum

U.S.A. Alabama

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do you have to have a bsn to wprk in labor ad delivery? any answers are appreciated.

Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
Perhaps 100% BSN is not mandatory (yet), but hospitals have nurses who have been there for years or even decades without BSNs, they take up the remainder of nursing census. Perhaps it is different in different places, but where I am, no hospital will hire anything less than a BSN. Associate degree nurses can work in nursing homes or clinics, but not hospitals and diploma nurses cannot get any job at all.

That seems to be more so because they can. Many areas have an abundance of nurses (especially new grads) seeking employment with diplomas, ASN, BSN and (DE)MSN so if they have 5 jobs and 300 new nurses apply (50 diploma, 100 ASN, 100 BSN, 50 (DE)MSN) statistics show they will interview & hire BSN RN over the other candidates even if diploma nurses have the highest number of clinical practice hours.

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