Why A BSN Degree Is Even More Important Today
If you wish to be a nurse at a high quality hospital, a BSN nursing degree has become considerably more important due to a program created by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
The ANCC began to develop a “Magnet Recognition Program” back in the late 1980’s, which focused on hospitals that had certain qualities that had the highest ability to attract and retain nurses. In 2014, the program was given a major boost by a research study in The Lancet, an old and respected medical journal, that showed that hospitals with a higher percentage of BSN-degree nurses had lower rates of patient mortality. The ANCC then began to award a “Magnet Hospital” credential to the institutions that achieved the highest nursing standards.