SuburbsGirl

This doesn't surprise me at all. I have heard from HR at my hospital that ADNs have lower turnover. I work at a Magnet hospital in Chicago suburbs that hires ADNs and they are sticking to the job.

Well a ABSN and BSN are the same thing. (Assuming ABSN is just accelerated.) With a Bachelor's already, the ABSN route is a good route, but those schools typically can be expensive.

Chicago hospitals still hire ADN. Loyola, Advocate, Amita, etc. There may be some legislation coming in Illinois that bans hospitals from hiring BSN only. It's been in works for several years but I haven't seen anything become a bill yet, but I know ...

If patient is doing that on unit, why aren't they on a 1:1?

This is exact one we use from Medline. http://www.medline.com/media/catalog/sku/SZW/300x300/SZW16719_PRI01.JPG

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Major Chicago teaching institutions pay new grad BSN $0.50 more than new grad ADN and YES, they still hire ADN and are Magnet. Our union contract is very protective of our ADN's and a few Diploma nurses we still have.

Regretfully, nursing education has become a bit of a joke. It is more focused on paper writing than on learning useful knowledge. It is no surprise to me that you find a PA better prepared. I only pray that the people that are destroying nursing so...

I was hired at Chicago hospital after graduating. On another note, a major health system here with several hospitals in Chicago and burbs (Advocate, All Magnet) here just dropped BSN requirement at various hospitals. I don't work for Advocate, but I ...

Have an MR patient that has been at our hospital based, acute in-patient psych unit for 1 year. Placement issue. They found a place for him a few months ago but he was sent back after a few hours. Comments.

Keep in mind that Chicago and it's suburbs are saturated. Put yourself in a hiring manager shoes in a dense are like Chicago. If you received an application from a BSN and an ADN that both lived a 30 minute car ride away, which applicant do you think...

I work at a Chicago hospital that has no intention of going magnet and their strategy for retention is to hire ADNs. It's the suburban hospitals that are all magnet and they are fully staffed. Right now at non-magnet hospitals, it can be be a bad thi...

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Working there is fine if your intention is to try to get a job there, but unless they've changed in the past year, Loyola pays their Techs worse than any place I've ever seen. I made $11.30 an hour when I left in July 2012 to take a RN job at another...

I am a new RN. I was just offered a position in a GI Lab at a teaching institution. I do like GI, but I had hoped to work a year or 2 on a med-surg floor 1st. With this job market, I need to take this job, and I am the kind of person that will commit...

Yeah, CDH, Advocate, Adventist (Good Sam at least), Edward, Elmhurst, etc, etc, etc. Not Loyola though except registry. CDH $12.73 plus bonus last time I IV'd with them. I ended up at Good Sam after turning down Loyola after their ridiculously low of...