It’s absolutely possible to get an MSN degree without a BSN. There’s currently high demand for nurses with advanced practice and managerial skills, so colleges have gotten very creative about offering fast-track or accelerated programs to get you to a nursing master’s degree through a shorter path than nursing students have traditionally taken.
You might wonder if you can get hired in some hospitals without a bachelor’s in nursing. The BSN degree has definitely grown more valuable in recent times, particularly given the so called “80/2020” initiatives being followed today by so many hospitals. Under this plan, issued in 2014 by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, U.S. hospitals could be designated as “magnet” facilities if 80% of their nurses had BSNs by the year 2020. That led to a wave of care centers and other health organizations adopting a policy of only hiring only BSN carrying nurses. (According to a variety of reports, by the way, the 80% goal has not yet been met in most institutions as we lead into 2020).
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