Do I have grounds to negotiate my price offered?

[mcpheenom]

I'm about to be offered a new job. I will be going from 2 years of Psych Nursing to a Med Surg. Floor. I'm not sure if they're going to include my Psych Nursing experience when they calculate my offer. I have a friend who graduated with me and got a job at this same place at the same floor I'm going to. I know she was offered 27$/hr to start as a new grad. I told them I would like at least 27-28$ just so I didn't price myself out.

My question is...if they come with an offer for 27/hr should I try to ask for more based on my 2 years of Psych Experience? What if they say it's not relavent because it's Psych?

Any other tips on this matter would be extremely helpful. Thanks.

[llg, PhD, RN]

What I would do is ask how the $27 figure was determined. If they say that it is the "no experience" rate, you can ask why the psych experience was not include and whether they would reconsider it. If they say it already includes the psych experience (and that their new grad rate is lower), then you can simply smile and say "Thank you for the information."

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

Whatever experience you have WILL be taken into account. It just might not be the way YOU want it to be. :)