States that hire ADNs

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What states do you think offers more opportunities for new grad nurse's with ADNs?

Specializes in NICU, telemetry.

I live in South Carolina, and ADNs are still hired here. Especially around the Columbia area, as one of our local schools is very reputable. Some hospitals are moving toward BSN only, but I don't know any ADNs having trouble finding jobs.

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

Based on the title of your question alone: ALL of them. After reading the actual post: ALL of them

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RunnerRN2015 which area of NC? I am in an ADN program in NC, and I am so scared I wont be able to find a job when I graduate.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.
Based on the title of your question alone: ALL of them. After reading the actual post: ALL of them

Totally agree. ADNs are hired everywhere. However, there are differences in the types of jobs and settings in which they are most likely to be hired.

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Avoid San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, & New York City ( Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens ).

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
Outside of Philly and Pittsburgh that is.

...even though you will get a rare chance of getting an interview and actually considered to be hired-I know someone who is in this exact position right now who is an ADN...

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Specializes in ICU.

Indiana. Especially in the rural areas, which is most of the state. Most of the nurses I worked in clinical on one floor were LPNs.

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What states do you think offers more opportunities for new grad nurse's with ADNs?

https://allnurses.com/nursing-career-advice/top-states-and-988095.html

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Specializes in hospice.
In general, look into the states where people are not flocking to in droves: Wyoming, Oklahoma, Arkansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kentucky, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Mississippi, Louisiana, Idaho, Montana, etc.

Also, more rural parts of the states people ARE flocking into. In Arizona, there are ADN jobs outside hospitals in Phoenix metro, but few hospitals will hire them. However, in more rural places in the north and east, ADNs can get hospital jobs. A girl from my CNA class finished her CC nursing course and had a job offer in OB in Flagstaff before she even passed NCLEX. She's been there 6 months now. Another nurse I knew could not get hired as a RN anywhere in the hospital system for which were worked, even though she had been an aide with them for years. She went east and got a hospital RN job in or around Globe.

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