New Grad jobs/Residency

roxiroxmysox · Jul 29, 2014

Inova has a systemwide freeze on ADN/diploma nurses recently. They're trying to renew their magnet status, and management generally looks down on ADN nurses. Blech.

Do you know if they hire them at all? Does anyone know how they handle ADN nurse hirings? I will be coming out of school with an ADN but I am already enrolled in an RN to BSN program... But it will be like two more semesters until I would be done. I really would love to work in Leesburg... My husband is a fireman there. Anyways, does anyone know f I have any kind of shot? All of the listings say bsn required msn preferred

ArtieRN · Aug 25, 2014

@roxiroxmysox last I heard the hiring freeze on ADNs is system-wide, so all departments and all five hospitals. This may have changed recently but as Fairfax is up for renewing magnet status and they want that for the other hospitals, I doubt that's the case. I'm a diploma RN who was hired right before, and at the time our former CNO(?) was very outspoken about her prejudice against 2-year degree nurses. We did have to sign agreements that we'd get our BSN within 3 years of hire, I think it was, and they recently started a tuition grant for anyone starting an RN-to-BSN program after this past July. But again, this is more for the benefit of current employees and I don't think they're hiring anymore ADNs for a while. Sorry for rambling.