Will most hospitals hire a person with a bachelors dgree before a person with an ADN.

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I don't think that really matters at all.

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Not that I know of. Even though the only reason ADN degrees still exist is because of the shortage and the thought process is that all nurses should eventually have their BSN, ADN nurses are not frowned upon.

I think experience, attitude, flexibility and references have more to do with who they choose than the degree.

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Most? No.

Some? Yes

Some of the magnet seeking hospitals will hire BSN over ADN just so they can get their stats up to par. I know my old hospital was doing that.

For my new job interview the nurse manager asked if I had my bachelors (which I do) but I knew the reason she was asking was because of their magnet seeking status.

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life is not that cut and dry.... i would say very few will hire a ba, bs, bsn over an adn. even those seeking magnet status can do so cost effectively by hiring adns and offering small incentives (and i do mean small) to return to school for a bsn, like mine. although i was hired and have multiple other degrees my classmates were hired with the same pay and benefits with only adns. those who had better benefits are not the bsns rather those who already worked for the hospital prior to graduating with his/her nursing degree. therefore, if you are looking to be marketable, be sure to get a job as a tech and/or a nurse extern before graduating so you have a better shot of being hired on as a new grad.

as one poster put it... the decision to do one over the other can boil down to life circumstances and finances. if you have the money and the time to get a bsn right away, then go for it! if you are strapped for cash, must care for self and others, and do not want to be in debt close to or over $100,000 of student loans, then try the adn then rn-bsn route. i paid cash for my adn and am having my employers pay for my bsn while i work as a new grad. i am nursing-school-student-loan debt free and owe no one any amount of time of service. :up:

Specializes in ER - trauma/cardiac/burns. IV start spec.

ADN vs BSN.. that is a very hotly debated route. In my area the hospitals still hire ADNs for all nursing care and the number one reason for hiring BSNs is for management. This area still goes by the old addage "those who can - do, those how can't - teach". Before I had to quit nursing the only state that required BSNs was Montana and the reason for that was :confused:- I don't know. The few BSNs hired into the ER washed out and went to floors.

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Where I work they don't care if you have an ADN or BSN as long as you are healthy, honest and can work. BSN's can move into management but most don't. Most stay with bedside nursing. Those who work in management come in applying for management positions not bedside positions.

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Are you talking new grad positions? If you're not work experience sometimes trumps degree.

If you are talking new grad, it might depend on supply and demand. If there are only a few new grad positions and many applicants the recruiter might hire BSNs before ADNs, especially in a Magnet facility.

Also, sometimes recruiters have prejudices themselves. Some recruiters buy into the myth that ADNs get more clinical time and make better bedside nurses than the BSNs and hire the ADNs over the BSNs. And visa versa.

As someone above said, it's not that cut and dry.

In the facility I work, bedside entry level positions seem to be open to both BSNs and ADNs equally.

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In a hospital by me they will no longer even hire ADNs. You must have your BSN.

So BSN's have a greater chance of working in a magnet hospital? How do you find out before you apply for them if they are magnet hospitals and if they hire ADN's

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Hospitals in my area of Western Arkansas just want a pulse and a license. Sometimes it's questionable on the pulse :omy:

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Hospitals in my area of Western Arkansas just want a pulse and a license. Sometimes it's questionable on the pulse :omy:

OMG funny.

Reminds me of a clinical experience I had. An RN, away from the instructor, asked us how far along we were. We told her first semester. She asked us to describe what aspects of an assessment we understood. When we got to the neuro check, which included AOx3, she said "Good, so you know what that means then."

We looked at her in puzzlement. Then she finished "I'm not sure your instructor is AOx3 if you know what I mean. Did I hear her right when I overheard her tell that student ....................." I forget what it was she heard but it was another of many glaring examples of how our instructor was not qualified.

So, if you have a pulse and arent AOx3, its still enough.

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