{"id":749720,"date":"2026-07-08T03:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749720\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T03:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:12:15","slug":"mission-health-drops-bsn-requirement-for-newly-hired-registered-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749720\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Health drops BSN requirement for newly hired registered nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 Mission Health is changing its hiring requirements for registered nurses as it works to grow its workforce and fill open positions.<\/p>\n<p>The health care system will no longer require newly hired nurses to have a four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree or to earn one within five years of being hired. Instead, applicants will only need a two-year associate degree in nursing to qualify.<\/p>\n<p>Mission Health said the change recognizes the skills that associate degree nurses bring to patient care and aims to expand the pool of qualified applicants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/asheville-north-carolina-community-holds-vigil-mission-hospital-health-care-church-patients-union-staff-employees-doctors-nurses-advocacy-mourning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PATIENTS, HEALTHCARE WORKERS HOLD VIGIL OVER CONCERNS ABOUT MISSION HOSPITAL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leaders from AB-Tech Community College, which trains nurses who work in the Mission Health system, said associate degree nurses have long served the region. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Associate degree nurses have been in this community providing care to this community for well over 50 years. They have been providing excellent care,&#8221; said Christy Andrews, chair of nursing at AB-Tech. &#8220;Our graduates have \u2013 by the time they leave \u2013 they will have had over 800 clinical practice hours prior to graduating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (2)<\/p>\n<p>Andrews also noted that all students must pass the same exam to become a registered nurse, regardless of what degree they have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 Mission Health is changing its hiring requirements for registered nurses as it works to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-749720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}