No BSN required if 20 yrs or more experience!

[Emergent]

I received a recruitment email from a hospital system I had once applied to. I'm not really looking, but out of curiosity looked at their job descriptions.

Formerly they required a BSN within 5 years. Now they give you 6 years, but it's waived if the applicant has 20 or more years RN experience.

Either it's a swing in the direction of common sense, or, more likely, a response to the current increased need for RNs in my region. But it warmed my old heart.

[chare]

This not only varies from one location to another, but with systems within a particular area. In the region I work there are two major academic medical centers, both of which have associated schools of nursing. Both hire ADN prepared nurses with the expectation that these nurses enroll in a BSN program within 2 years, and complete it within 5 years, and both offer sufficient tuition assistance and fee waivers.

The difference between these two facilities is how the included current employees. At one facility, if you were currently employed as an RN when the policy was implemented, you are exempted from thus requirement, so long as you continue in your current position. However, if you transfer to another position then the 2 and 5 year clocks start. The other exempted no one, and stated the time frame in which the expectation was that all RNs would be required to complete their BSN, a date which us rapidly approaching.

[chacha82, ADN, BSN]

"Your practice will improve..."? Really? Show me where the bodies are piling up.

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