RN with healthcare management

[GeminiRN2007]

Hi all,

I currently have my 4 year degree in nursing (BSN) and I'm going back to school to get my Associate degree in healthcare management. I chose a community college for my healthcare management degree because the classes were all online plus the tuition and cost of attendance was a lot cheaper than attending another 4 year university. I chose healthcare management because I'm wanting to get out of bedside nursing and more into the administrative part of things. My question is, what do you think my chances are of landing a pretty good administrative position in a hospital with a BSN and associate degree in healthcare management? Do you think it will make any different since I'm not obtaining my bachelors in health management?

[BacktoBasics]

I wouldn't even bother going for your AS in healthcare management. You need a masters to move up in nursing leadership also, magnet hospitals need a certain percentage of their leadership with masters. Its not worth the money to get your associates now when in 10 years your hospital will go Magnet and you'll be stuck.