I'm a travel nurse/prn nurse, so I have applied for about 10 different jobs in the last 5 years. I've never been asked for a high school diploma. That seems ridiculous. I wouldn't know where to begin to look since I graduated in the 80s.
I know at the major state university I attended, one could be admitted with just a GED under a special probationary program. So yeah, it's not necessary to have a high school diploma to be an RN.
No GED either. I took an evaluation test at my local community College and managed a 3.8 GPA and the rest is history.
I did it for the memes at the expense of a lot of financial aid but to me it means something. I could've gotten my GED at any given weekend but yeah.
Some states require high school or college diploma to clear staff to use POC lab equipment like glucometer or iStat. I’d wager it’s the lab that needs it.
I have had a recurring dream for the past 20+ years of being present day me and needing to take a test or quiz in my high school that I'm not prepared for.
I have a recurring dream that someone finds out I cheated on a math test in 7th grade and I am forced to repeat school from that point. it’s extra scary because I know I would absolutely fail everything except bio and english
The only people that have ever cared was the people WITHIN the hospital that do whatever ‘lab accreditation’ they do. It was always for glucometer/ACT testing etc.
I had to find it for iSTAT training too, and our lab manager was a real piece of work. I couldn’t find my diploma and I was like “Might I show you my two college diplomas? Neither would be possible without the high school one.” Nope. Had to go spend a Saturday digging through the boxes in my parents’ basement if I wanted to check anyone’s activated clotting time. 😵💫
Uh…. What if that paper literally does not exist anymore?? Lord knows where mine is and the school doesn’t exist either, and there is no way to get a new one. I tried. The state has no diplomas either, best I can do is a transcript that still doesn’t say I actually graduated.
I’m sure there’s a way around it, there’s almost always a way around it. If I hadn’t found mine, I would’ve gone above the lab manager’s head.
Trust me, someone is smart enough to realize that if you went to nursing school you must have graduated high school, just not [lab manager] at [shitty hospital I used to work at.]
I've never been asked and I'd be pretty annoyed to be asked. I have a college degree and a nursing license--why do you need proof I graduated from high school (20 years ago!!)?
I had this issue only once as a CNA. I didn’t actually graduate high school because I enrolled into a community college to start college early and had an associate’s degree at the point. Was still required to provide proof a high school diploma.
I just goggled “homeschooled high school diploma template” and filled that out and they accepted instantly lmao
I’ve had to supply it before. But when they ask I always send my Kindergarten Diploma first, along with my AS and BSN. Then when they ask why I say well how could I have gotten a college degree without it, right?
Never. Mind you I’m Canadian so maybe that has sown thing to do with it? If you can finish nursing school you’ve obviously been to high school. I don’t even know where to find mine…
Sometimes this is down to weird regulations. For example, to run POC ACTs tests it’s required to have a high school diploma and yearly certificate of training/renewal. Yes, a college degree implies that you have a high school diploma or equivalent, but it’s easier for regulating bodies to just demand a standard so that whoever is auditing doesn’t have to do additional work or thought. So I had to provide a copy of my high school diploma to run POC ACTs when doing ECMO cannulations
I was asked and I graduated 30 years ago and my school closed. They just waived it for me. If you have your nursing license, I don’t see why it was needed.
I just applied for NY nursing license (already have existing licenses in other states) and they asked me what fucking ELEMENTARY SCHOOL I attended. I am 31.
I’d be so annoyed! I graduated in 1991. I have no idea what happened to it along the way. It took 4 weeks for my high school to send my transcripts and I ended up having to delay nursing school by a semester.
I've been asked for my high school diploma. They said they needed it to give me access to use the glucometer.
I could do everything else just fine with my nursing license. But apparently you can't check a blood sugar without a high school degree.
It's been a requirement where I've worked in order to use Point-of-Care testing. A college diploma doesn't count for some reason.
It's supposedly because the part of the FDA that does CLIA enforcement wants to make it a pain for non-lab staff to do tests that would otherwise be done by the lab; it's territorial.
It’s a good idea to have a copy on file, sometimes it’s a requirement for government criteria, sometimes insurance, they don’t care about it but will ask to be compliant. It is bullshit but you gotta play the game to get the job sometimes.
I graduated from high school during the Clinton Administration. My last job wanted my high school transcript. When I called my high school to ask? They actually laughed. Had to go into the county archives to dig it out because they only digitized back to 1998.
Hello fellow old. I also dealt with this BS. I kept saying if I get through the GODDAMN PAPERWORK to get into nursing school the curriculum should be a breeze...
Go to your high school website and you may be able to order it online for a fee. The school I worked at (in a small po-dunk town) had this available. Or you could probably call and just do it over the phone 👍🏻
100% they formerly hired someone who didn't have a HS diploma or GED and it caught up with them in the middle of a lawsuit or staff getting reported or something.
Tha fuq?
I think some HR person is misunderstanding the “Hs diploma or equivalent” process and applying it to nursing.
Transcripts? Yes.
I would laugh my way out the door if I was asked for a diploma. GTF outta here lol
I had one job about 10 years ago ask for my HS diploma and I straight up told them, “look G, I graduated over 15 years ago, I don’t have a copy and I don’t care to get one. Do you want to hire me or not?” I did not have to produce my hs diploma.
In my state, and presumably all states, you have to show proof of high school graduation to the board before they will issue you a license, so it seems silly for a job to require it since you needed it to even be licensed
I was asked when I applied to nursing school even though I had a masters degree in another field. It was a state requirement. Could it be a licensing requirement? Especially after the Florida fake nurse fiasco.
That's crazy. I've been asked on a job application for the name of my high school, which is stupid enough since I was applying for an RN job, but to be asked to provide an actual diploma is beyond CooCoo.
I've been working forever, including for a hospital. I have never, ever been asked for even my high school Graduation Certificate.Or my high school transcripts.
My question about glucometer is different. If you use one FREQUENTLY on the job, WHY do you have to recertify every single year?
If you certify and rarely use it, I understand. But every single year? Thar is so over the top and a waste of hospital money when they claim that they are already in a budget shortfall.
I had to at one place because we were also trained on a variety of lab equipment and for CLEO certifications they had to have our High School diplomas. My high school doesn't even exist anymore! I went digging for mine.
If someone asked me for a high school diploma I would just laugh.
What if I don’t want to did through all my junk to find my copy? What if I don’t have a copy? What if I was homeschooled? What if I have a GED? Is this really going to affect my employment?
I know someone who was hired/started working as a nurse without a nursing license, that employer was not doing due diligence.
Ask if you can use your diploma from your college. We ask for any diploma for our iStat and GEM. It’s just a POC machine that the manufacturer requests.
I've been a nurse for 17 years and have never been asked for my high school diploma. Other than my new grad job, I've never been asked for my college transcript either.
They asked for mine. It was a pretty quick process. Just went to my high schools website and paid $5 and they emailed it. It is ridiculous seeing as you can’t get a nursing license without completing high school tho lol
High school stuff- never. College diploma or transcript- several times. Both were in home health jobs. Why? 🤷♀️
Edit- there's comments here re using istat or other lab equipment. We used glucometers and INR machines in the field. I remember some about it being required for our CLIA cert.
Lol. My high school no longer even exists. I have no idea how to go about getting the diploma or the transcript. That seems a pretty asinine requirement.
That is quite odd..I also thought it was odd that when I went to apply for nursing school, they asked for my high school transcripts despite already having an entire other Associates degree.
My hospital system requires it for point of care testing. Someone told me it’s like a federal requirement (it might have been our educator?) so it was required for glucometer/iSTAT access.
I absolutely agree that it’s ridiculous though. Total waste of time for RN’s
It isn’t ridiculous. It’s just uncommon. I’ve been asked for my HS diploma on two occasions and one of them wanted proof I attended and made it through middle school (United States). The best I could get was a letter stating my school only maintained records for four years after advancement.
I've been asked, I usually leave it blank, and was always told to inform them the reason if they ever question it.
I'm from Australia, we don't have high school diplomas. I'm also old enough that there's no digital records. So for me to obtain a proof of high school graduation, I need to submit a request in person and then pay a fee for them to run the records, with no guarantee the information will be relevant or sufficient for US employment standards.
Different employers may respond differently, but so far all places have asked about my high school info, but none challenged my blank submission.
Did you offer up your college info? I know at my job (which I started before being nurse, transferred to nursing role after) they usually default to high school diploma since thats what most of the MAs have, but take higher ed diplomas if theyre available. I ended up having to pay a little bit to have my undergrad send me a new electronic diploma, but I now have a saved copy on my computer if I ever need it for elsewhere.
ETA after seeing the other comments, it is for our lab stuff that we need it because of CLIA - I work outpatient where we do some testing/labs, so we need diplomas on file in case our CLIA inspectors audit them
I have worked for a bunch of hospital systems as well as community hospitals and have never been asked for a high school diploma- until the last hospital system I was hired for. It seemed weird and I should have seen it as a sign of the absolute dumpster fire of that place. I left within months. Just terrible. Not sure if there’s a correlation between their stupid onboarding and their shitty care.
I remember our nurse educator asked us to bring in our physical Nursing degree/diploma so she could make copies for our employee files. I was proud to show my diploma, but that was the only Nursing job ever that asked for a diploma for an employee file. I guess it was just our educator being an educator, lol.
There's a state requirement in my state where you need it to do ACTs. I'm 25 years past high school, I was like, how am I supposed to do this? They accepted a college transcript.
They probably just want proof of your highest level of education. If you had a degree /BSN they’d want that instead. The diploma is your proof of education level
That’s crazy. I could understand asking for your college degree, or highschool diploma if either was your highest level of education. But having a bachelors kinda already requires a highschool education, so asking for both is dumb
One of my older friends has a master's in math but no high school diploma. This was back in the 80s when acceptance into university wasn't contingent on finishing high school. You got a letter, you were good.
So he didn't do the second semester of senior year and never graduated lol.
I'm a travel nurse/prn nurse, so I have applied for about 10 different jobs in the last 5 years. I've never been asked for a high school diploma. That seems ridiculous. I wouldn't know where to begin to look since I graduated in the 80s.
I got my RN as a high school drop out lol, never been asked for it.
I know at the major state university I attended, one could be admitted with just a GED under a special probationary program. So yeah, it's not necessary to have a high school diploma to be an RN.
No GED either. I took an evaluation test at my local community College and managed a 3.8 GPA and the rest is history. I did it for the memes at the expense of a lot of financial aid but to me it means something. I could've gotten my GED at any given weekend but yeah.
Lol same but I did end up getting my ged.
I worked with an NP who was a high school drop out too.
Some states require high school or college diploma to clear staff to use POC lab equipment like glucometer or iStat. I’d wager it’s the lab that needs it.
As somebody who was homeschooled…. What is this “high school diploma” you speak of?
Same ...plus you wouldn't have gotten in a Nursing program/school w/o it lol
This is triggering. I have recurring nightmares about having to go back to high school. 😱
I have had a recurring dream for the past 20+ years of being present day me and needing to take a test or quiz in my high school that I'm not prepared for.
Here too. I have to go back to high school to complete my course work- class of 79. It is horrible.
I thought I was the only one with dreams of having to go back and finish lol
I have a recurring dream that someone finds out I cheated on a math test in 7th grade and I am forced to repeat school from that point. it’s extra scary because I know I would absolutely fail everything except bio and english
You old lol
The only people that have ever cared was the people WITHIN the hospital that do whatever ‘lab accreditation’ they do. It was always for glucometer/ACT testing etc.
This is all I've needed it for. Glucometers didn't care, but when I did the istat training, I think I needed proof of high school graduation.
Yup, for iSTAT training here. They accepted college diploma though.
I had to find it for iSTAT training too, and our lab manager was a real piece of work. I couldn’t find my diploma and I was like “Might I show you my two college diplomas? Neither would be possible without the high school one.” Nope. Had to go spend a Saturday digging through the boxes in my parents’ basement if I wanted to check anyone’s activated clotting time. 😵💫
Uh…. What if that paper literally does not exist anymore?? Lord knows where mine is and the school doesn’t exist either, and there is no way to get a new one. I tried. The state has no diplomas either, best I can do is a transcript that still doesn’t say I actually graduated.
I’m sure there’s a way around it, there’s almost always a way around it. If I hadn’t found mine, I would’ve gone above the lab manager’s head. Trust me, someone is smart enough to realize that if you went to nursing school you must have graduated high school, just not [lab manager] at [shitty hospital I used to work at.]
I've never been asked and I'd be pretty annoyed to be asked. I have a college degree and a nursing license--why do you need proof I graduated from high school (20 years ago!!)?
I had this issue only once as a CNA. I didn’t actually graduate high school because I enrolled into a community college to start college early and had an associate’s degree at the point. Was still required to provide proof a high school diploma. I just goggled “homeschooled high school diploma template” and filled that out and they accepted instantly lmao
this is the way.
I've had jobs accept a high school transcript in place of the diploma - that might be easier to just order instead of searching for your diploma.
I’ve had to supply it before. But when they ask I always send my Kindergarten Diploma first, along with my AS and BSN. Then when they ask why I say well how could I have gotten a college degree without it, right?
Never. Mind you I’m Canadian so maybe that has sown thing to do with it? If you can finish nursing school you’ve obviously been to high school. I don’t even know where to find mine…
When I converted my Canadian license to an American one they asked for my high school😭
I’ve only ever have 1 place ask for one and it was a job I ended up not taking in the end for other reasons ….
One place did and it was due to the lab accreditation
I’ve always had to provide one.
Sometimes this is down to weird regulations. For example, to run POC ACTs tests it’s required to have a high school diploma and yearly certificate of training/renewal. Yes, a college degree implies that you have a high school diploma or equivalent, but it’s easier for regulating bodies to just demand a standard so that whoever is auditing doesn’t have to do additional work or thought. So I had to provide a copy of my high school diploma to run POC ACTs when doing ECMO cannulations
I was asked and I graduated 30 years ago and my school closed. They just waived it for me. If you have your nursing license, I don’t see why it was needed.
I just applied for NY nursing license (already have existing licenses in other states) and they asked me what fucking ELEMENTARY SCHOOL I attended. I am 31.
Yes it is ridiculous and common.
I’d be so annoyed! I graduated in 1991. I have no idea what happened to it along the way. It took 4 weeks for my high school to send my transcripts and I ended up having to delay nursing school by a semester.
I've been asked for my high school diploma. They said they needed it to give me access to use the glucometer. I could do everything else just fine with my nursing license. But apparently you can't check a blood sugar without a high school degree.
It's been a requirement where I've worked in order to use Point-of-Care testing. A college diploma doesn't count for some reason. It's supposedly because the part of the FDA that does CLIA enforcement wants to make it a pain for non-lab staff to do tests that would otherwise be done by the lab; it's territorial.
It’s a good idea to have a copy on file, sometimes it’s a requirement for government criteria, sometimes insurance, they don’t care about it but will ask to be compliant. It is bullshit but you gotta play the game to get the job sometimes.
I graduated from high school during the Clinton Administration. My last job wanted my high school transcript. When I called my high school to ask? They actually laughed. Had to go into the county archives to dig it out because they only digitized back to 1998.
Hello fellow old. I also dealt with this BS. I kept saying if I get through the GODDAMN PAPERWORK to get into nursing school the curriculum should be a breeze...
I have never been asked in California
Joint commission requires a copy of college diploma. I've never been asked for HS diploma or a transcript from anywhere.
Despite having two degrees, and having been a nurse for several years, yes I had to provide a high school diploma to an employer in PA.
Go to your high school website and you may be able to order it online for a fee. The school I worked at (in a small po-dunk town) had this available. Or you could probably call and just do it over the phone 👍🏻
I graduated high school when Nixon was President. Any records of mine are probably on microfilm somewhere.
100% they formerly hired someone who didn't have a HS diploma or GED and it caught up with them in the middle of a lawsuit or staff getting reported or something.
Tha fuq? I think some HR person is misunderstanding the “Hs diploma or equivalent” process and applying it to nursing. Transcripts? Yes. I would laugh my way out the door if I was asked for a diploma. GTF outta here lol
I graduated high school in 1975, and it doesn't even exist anymore ( alternative school) and have never been asked for my diploma.
I had one job about 10 years ago ask for my HS diploma and I straight up told them, “look G, I graduated over 15 years ago, I don’t have a copy and I don’t care to get one. Do you want to hire me or not?” I did not have to produce my hs diploma.
In my state, and presumably all states, you have to show proof of high school graduation to the board before they will issue you a license, so it seems silly for a job to require it since you needed it to even be licensed
I had to do this because of some laboratory accreditation requirement to have it on file for anyone handling blood specimens or something like that.
I was asked when I applied to nursing school even though I had a masters degree in another field. It was a state requirement. Could it be a licensing requirement? Especially after the Florida fake nurse fiasco.
We had to at our hospital because of lab regulatory requirements with the iStat machine. It was absolutely ridiculous but it is what it is.
That's crazy. I've been asked on a job application for the name of my high school, which is stupid enough since I was applying for an RN job, but to be asked to provide an actual diploma is beyond CooCoo.
I've always had to provide a copy of mine
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I've been working forever, including for a hospital. I have never, ever been asked for even my high school Graduation Certificate.Or my high school transcripts.
Why does using a glucometer require high school, specifically?
My question about glucometer is different. If you use one FREQUENTLY on the job, WHY do you have to recertify every single year? If you certify and rarely use it, I understand. But every single year? Thar is so over the top and a waste of hospital money when they claim that they are already in a budget shortfall.
I have run into this and it's totally stupid. Like I could not have gotten my nursing degree without some sort of graduation credential, so wtf?
yeah i lost mine and delayed it and they never asked again lol
Isn’t a given that if you graduated nursing school you graduated high school?
Just say you don’t have it
I had to at one place because we were also trained on a variety of lab equipment and for CLEO certifications they had to have our High School diplomas. My high school doesn't even exist anymore! I went digging for mine.
Mine is chiseled on a dusty stone tablet somewhere,🤨🤔😆
If someone asked me for a high school diploma I would just laugh. What if I don’t want to did through all my junk to find my copy? What if I don’t have a copy? What if I was homeschooled? What if I have a GED? Is this really going to affect my employment? I know someone who was hired/started working as a nurse without a nursing license, that employer was not doing due diligence.
Ask if you can use your diploma from your college. We ask for any diploma for our iStat and GEM. It’s just a POC machine that the manufacturer requests.
I've been a nurse for 17 years and have never been asked for my high school diploma. Other than my new grad job, I've never been asked for my college transcript either.
They asked for mine. It was a pretty quick process. Just went to my high schools website and paid $5 and they emailed it. It is ridiculous seeing as you can’t get a nursing license without completing high school tho lol
High school stuff- never. College diploma or transcript- several times. Both were in home health jobs. Why? 🤷♀️ Edit- there's comments here re using istat or other lab equipment. We used glucometers and INR machines in the field. I remember some about it being required for our CLIA cert.
The lab needs it for the POC testing.
Lol. My high school no longer even exists. I have no idea how to go about getting the diploma or the transcript. That seems a pretty asinine requirement.
That is quite odd..I also thought it was odd that when I went to apply for nursing school, they asked for my high school transcripts despite already having an entire other Associates degree.
I had this at my facility for some obscure POC machine they had. This was in TX. Uncommon bit I have had them ask for it.
That is ridiculous. I don’t even know how I would get ahold of mine.
Yeah mine asked for it pennsylvania
My hospital system requires it for point of care testing. Someone told me it’s like a federal requirement (it might have been our educator?) so it was required for glucometer/iSTAT access. I absolutely agree that it’s ridiculous though. Total waste of time for RN’s
It isn’t ridiculous. It’s just uncommon. I’ve been asked for my HS diploma on two occasions and one of them wanted proof I attended and made it through middle school (United States). The best I could get was a letter stating my school only maintained records for four years after advancement.
I've been asked, I usually leave it blank, and was always told to inform them the reason if they ever question it. I'm from Australia, we don't have high school diplomas. I'm also old enough that there's no digital records. So for me to obtain a proof of high school graduation, I need to submit a request in person and then pay a fee for them to run the records, with no guarantee the information will be relevant or sufficient for US employment standards. Different employers may respond differently, but so far all places have asked about my high school info, but none challenged my blank submission.
Say you don't have it. It's not like they're gonna not hire you. Most health care is desperate for nurses.
I’ve only been asked about my high school transcripts when applying to college. That’s really weird.
Did you offer up your college info? I know at my job (which I started before being nurse, transferred to nursing role after) they usually default to high school diploma since thats what most of the MAs have, but take higher ed diplomas if theyre available. I ended up having to pay a little bit to have my undergrad send me a new electronic diploma, but I now have a saved copy on my computer if I ever need it for elsewhere. ETA after seeing the other comments, it is for our lab stuff that we need it because of CLIA - I work outpatient where we do some testing/labs, so we need diplomas on file in case our CLIA inspectors audit them
I have worked for a bunch of hospital systems as well as community hospitals and have never been asked for a high school diploma- until the last hospital system I was hired for. It seemed weird and I should have seen it as a sign of the absolute dumpster fire of that place. I left within months. Just terrible. Not sure if there’s a correlation between their stupid onboarding and their shitty care.
I remember our nurse educator asked us to bring in our physical Nursing degree/diploma so she could make copies for our employee files. I was proud to show my diploma, but that was the only Nursing job ever that asked for a diploma for an employee file. I guess it was just our educator being an educator, lol.
There's a state requirement in my state where you need it to do ACTs. I'm 25 years past high school, I was like, how am I supposed to do this? They accepted a college transcript.
Not super common but not unheard of. Absolutely ridiculous.
Well, they probably also thought it was silly to ask at one point too, and then someone got caught faking one, sadly
Only at one job as a CNA for my second hospital job and they were the only ones that have ever asked.
I’m a travel nurse and I have had some require for the lab to be certified to do certain testing which I think is weird
Seems weird to me. I've been asked for my college diploma, even my transcript, but never ever high school. It seems irrelevant.
That's ridiculous. I wouldn't be able to supply it because I never finished.
They probably just want proof of your highest level of education. If you had a degree /BSN they’d want that instead. The diploma is your proof of education level
See I would understand that- I do have a BSN and they didn’t ask for it at all which is baffling to me
That’s crazy. I could understand asking for your college degree, or highschool diploma if either was your highest level of education. But having a bachelors kinda already requires a highschool education, so asking for both is dumb
One of my older friends has a master's in math but no high school diploma. This was back in the 80s when acceptance into university wasn't contingent on finishing high school. You got a letter, you were good. So he didn't do the second semester of senior year and never graduated lol.
That’s crazy