National trend...hiring only BSN's?

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My current hospital is requiring all ASN nurses to get their BSN by 2020 in order to remain employed. Several hospitals in my area (Indiana) are not hiring any nurses except those with BSN degrees. Is this a national trend? I was hoping to start travel nursing soon, but am thinking I should probably go back to school if this is the way things are going. Any feedback/comments appreciated.

Do you have to practice as an ADN prior to beginning a BSN degree? And... can't you do the ADN to BSN online?

I had wanted to both start working and completing an online BSN asap after completing my ADN... I need to stay local for two years after I graduate in order to fulfill my obligation for my scholarship. So I had wanted to use that time to complete my BSN as well so that it would be easier to relocate after (if I was interested in relocating).

No, you can start most ADN to BSN programs without having worked a single day as a RN. IIRC the major requirement is that one be a licensed RN (diploma or ADN grad).

Yes, many places offer online ADN to BSN programs including some sponsored by hospitals for their nurses. You just have to look around to see what is on offer in your local area.

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What about in the South?

Here in the Dallas, TX area, it seems like all the hospitals want BSN's. My hospital requires all nurses to have their BSN within 24 months of hire, and they no longer hire ADN new grads. I am from California originally and it was that way there too. I think it's the way the entire country is going.

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What about in the South?

Yes, Georgia has on some of its hospital websites BSN only apply. Also they are going toward residency programs for nursing that are held once maybe twice a year.

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It interesting to think that hospitals are moving to BSN only, yet there are tons of ADN programs still pumping out RNs every semester. I wonder if the ADN programs would sue or something if they were forced to close there programs. Those programs make alot of money for the community colleges.

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It interesting to think that hospitals are moving to BSN only, yet there are tons of ADN programs still pumping out RNs every semester. I wonder if the ADN programs would sue or something if they were forced to close there programs. Those programs make alot of money for the community colleges.

Nah, they'd just start opening BSN completion programs. That's what the local ADN nursing school did- they automatically enroll all students into the BSN completion program following graduation. Those who don't want to attend must opt-out. It's all about the $$$$.

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It interesting to think that hospitals are moving to BSN only, yet there are tons of ADN programs still pumping out RNs every semester. I wonder if the ADN programs would sue or something if they were forced to close there programs. Those programs make alot of money for the community colleges.

Hospitals are not the only places who hire RNs, it just so happens a bulk of nurses wish to work in one.

There are still nursing homes, LTC, skilled nursing facilities, home/community care and so forth that can and often do hire ADN grads. Again the problem is many new grads usually don't want to start their careers in such places and or certainly not end their days there.

As for ADN programs taking legal action, who would they sue and why? Unless directly affiliated with a hospital/healthcare network (and even then) associate programs often have nothing to do with a hospital other than sending students their for clinical experience. Even here in NYC the few remaining hospital affliated ADN nursing schools such as Beth Israel do not make any explict promises that grads will be hired.

Just what the other posted stated is happening; ADN in many areas are starting to see the writing on the wall and looking for ways to partner with BSN schools/finding otherways of adapting. Here in NYC Queens Community College (ADN) has linked up with Hunter-Bellevue (BSN) for a dual-joint ADN/BSN degree. Expect to see more of that sort of thing.

The big 500lb gorilla in the room that no one wants to speak about is what happens to students not academically prepared/inclined to handle four year college work. Organic chemistry and statistics probably rank up in the top five failed classes after med-dose calc that take out BSN nursing students.

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Nah, they'd just start opening BSN completion programs. That's what the local ADN nursing school did- they automatically enroll all students into the BSN completion program following graduation. Those who don't want to attend must opt-out. It's all about the $$$$.

Personally think in some local areas there is going to be a weeding out of ADN programs. Some will become BSN or something along the lines of a joint/dual program, others will try to work out some sort of bridge program with a four year college so that a bulk of an ADN grad's credits will be accepted towards a BSN degree.

The College of Staten Island is something of an example.

As a holdover from when the nursing program was part of Staten Island Community College the lower division nursing program awards an AAS in nursing. The "College of Staten Island" as the four year school is called now awards a four year degree via their RN to BSN program. However one cannot obtain an undergraduate four year nursing degree.

Interestingly you have the former Saint Vincent's School of Nursing, now Saint Paul's and run by a for profit company also cranking out ADN grads. Since two of the major hospitals on Staten Island are owned by NS-LIJ who annouced over a year ago they will no longer hire new grad ADNs and are moving towards an all BSN staff, one has wondered for awhile now where all the CofSI and Saint Paul's grads are finding work.

OTHO Wagner College on SI has excellent undergrad BSN and ABSN programs with board passing rates at or >90%.

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What about RNs who have a ASN and enroll in a RN to BSN program right after graduation

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It interesting to think that hospitals are moving to BSN only, yet there are tons of ADN programs still pumping out RNs every semester. I wonder if the ADN programs would sue or something if they were forced to close there programs. Those programs make alot of money for the community colleges.

Who would they sue?

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