Highest Education Achieved - What to Select?

On hospital job applications, I often see the question: 'what is your highest education achieved?'or something to that effect. I have 2 bachelor degrees (one in psych and one in nursing, the latter was accelerated) and a Juris Doctor (which I completed in between the bachelor degrees). I have naturally wanted to choose doctorate but recently have been inclined to choose bachelors because I think nursing jobs (especially floor nursing jobs) only really care about your NURSING degrees ... and by selecting doctorate I feel that I am misrepresenting that I have a DNP or something like that. Also, I don't want to weed myself from an applicant computer search by choosing doctorate and getting filtered out as potentially overqualified. Another nurse I know with the same background (we are not that rare a breed anymore) has had the same issue.

Thoughts?


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If you applying for a NURSING job, that would be the education they would be interested in.
JD is not equivalent to "doctorate" in terms of educational achievement. Pre-req for JD is Bachelor's degree, but some law schools don't even require that. Pre-req for doctorate is a Master's degree & doctorates require dissertation (original work). If the application is specific to a nursing job, they probably want highest nursing degree. You can include other (non-nursing) educational achievements in your resume.
Quote from HouTxJD is not equivalent to "doctorate" in terms of educational achievement. Pre-req for JD is Bachelor's degree, but some law schools don't even require that. Pre-req for doctorate is a Master's degree & doctorates require dissertation (original work). If the application is specific to a nursing job, they probably want highest nursing degree. You can include other (non-nursing) educational achievements in your resume.