How much do you make?

lactationrn · Jul 13, 2001

I was an LPN for 5 years b4 I got my RN. Progeria, you are rude at best and very offensive. i am happy you are making so much $$, ALL nurses work hard and deserve financial compensation for the job they do. ALL nurses need to support each other, because that is what professional people do.

Russ Dowling · Jul 13, 2001

JMP, it sounds like you are lumping all of us(LPNs/LVNs) together with this progeria person. If that is your intention, how is your post superior to his/hers? Are you implying that you moved to an all-RN hospital to get away from LPNs? I refuse to believe that you meant it that way, and I hope you'll post a clarification. I hope all our posts cause progeria to realize just how offensive their post was to everyone. Also, I'd be interested in the reason that he/she chose such a horrible disease as their nick.

progeria · Jul 13, 2001

Originally posted by kewlnurse
Where are you getting these "Facts" from, that one of the rudest and ignorant thing i have ever seen postd on this board. If i had $1 for every time i had to cover a LPN's butt for lack of knowledge or sheer incompitance i could retire! Let me ask you this, when a patient is going bad, do run and get another LPN or an RN?

:eek: ALL fo my pts are "going bad" as you say. ie questions about current CODE status. When I am in hte buliding there is no RN. Just me and another LVN. We have both been paramedics.

Me on the Army Special Forces side. Her on the civilian side.

NOTE the RN we do have just took off this incorrect order. Anyone with common knowledge would at least question it. It read: Levoquin 500mg po QID. this is 4 times the max. dose.

AND it was charted as given. SO guess who played clean-up?

RN's are Great. BUT fate it seams sticks me with the dumb ones.

:)

progeria · Jul 13, 2001

Originally posted by JannyLpn
I have been an LPN for 8 years. I have been at my current job (LTC) for 6 years. My base rate is $19.04 plus 8 bonus hours a pay period for perfect attendance. Insurance is expensive. Working weekends,many extra responsibilities. Nurses have long been overworked and underpaid!!!

:confused: Your pay is not that bad. In Missouri I was making 13 an hour and no benefits. So keep up the good work.:)

progeria · Jul 13, 2001

Originally posted by lactationrn
I was an LPN for 5 years b4 I got my RN. Progeria, you are rude at best and very offensive. i am happy you are making so much $$, ALL nurses work hard and deserve financial compensation for the job they do. ALL nurses need to support each other, because that is what professional people do.

progeria · Jul 13, 2001

Originally posted by lactationrn
I was an LPN for 5 years b4 I got my RN. Progeria, you are rude at best and very offensive. i am happy you are making so much $$, ALL nurses work hard and deserve financial compensation for the job they do. ALL nurses need to support each other, because that is what professional people do.

Okay then. Every where I have ever worked, people don't see a nurse. They see a soldier, youth, strength, leader, ect. SO the RNs kick back order me around and don't do sh$#. Because of these quaities I have. I can't hide them. It is who I am. All this time I have been kicked around by RNs. In every hospital I have ever worked. SO I retreated to LTC. There I have the chance to JUST DO MY JOB. That is all I want to do. Take care of people.

YES I tend to be a bit enraged. So what most of you have the same pinned up feelings. :o

Russ Dowling · Jul 13, 2001

Originally posted by progeria
Okay then. Every where I have ever worked, people don't see a nurse. They see a soldier, youth, strength, leader, ect. SO the RNs kick back order me around and don't do sh$#. Because of these quaities I have. I can't hide them. It is who I am. All this time I have been kicked around by RNs. In every hospital I have ever worked. SO I retreated to LTC. There I have the chance to JUST DO MY JOB. That is all I want to do. Take care of people.
YES I tend to be a bit enraged. So what most of you have the same pinned up feelings. :o

Progeria,

I'm saying this as gently as I can, and I do not expect to be flamed. I'm not trying to insult you. It is to be commended that you want to take care of people. That's why we entered this field. However, making negative generalizations about all RNs and boasting about how much money you make is not going to win you friends here.

It's been my experience that when someone is treated badly EVERYWHERE they go, usually it's something they're doing. You need to take a good look at yourself OBJECTIVELY, and make sure you're not doing anything to warrant this treatment. I don't mean to imply you're aware you're doing it. Much of our behavior is unconscious. Believe me, I've had to do the same thing, and it's humbling.

Finally, we need to support each other as LPNs, in fellowship with RNs. We need to acknowledge each other as nurses; work together for the benefit of our patients. Whether you like it or not, there are differences between RNs and LPNs. That's not going to change. Their classes are more in depth than ours. That doesn't mean ours aren't any good, they're just tailored to what we'll be doing in the field. We get more practical training, that doesn't mean they don't know what they're doing when they get to the floors. I've worked with a few RNs and LPNs that I wouldn't trust to tie my shoes, let alone take care of a patient. However, I've worked with FAR more nurses who would go to any length necessary in service to their patients. Trust me I have no "pinned" up feelings here. Take care.

FBB044 · Jul 13, 2001

1) RN, LP, COHN

2) 7 yrs.

3) Occupational Health & E.R.

4) 50K/yr for 3 days/wk & $23/hr prn in E.R.

Kyshine1 · Jul 13, 2001

:rolleyes:

RN with a Level III on the Clinical Ladder

21 years

NICU

32.44/hr with $4.00 differential and extra bonuses up to $100 per shift.

I work at the University Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio and I imagine if you added everything up you could make up to $46/hr.

oldgal · Jul 13, 2001

-r.n.

-40 years in nursing

-have worked all over but mostly in the o.r. and critical care. am now doing telephonic disease management because of health problems.

-am due for a raise, but am currently making about 39,000

Skywatcher · Jul 13, 2001

Originally posted by plumrn
Calling all nurses! Just a quick poll.Please tell us your:
1.Position held.(RN,LVN/LPN)
2.Years as a nurse.
3.Area of work.(M/S,ER,LTC,etc.)
4.Current hourly wage.
This should be interesting. Thanks.

Hello from S E Texas, I am an RN-Charge Nurse on Rehab Unit

$19.00 hr In nursing for 20 years end of July 2001

lsellers · Jul 14, 2001

LPN

30 years experience

Renal Floor Staff Nurse

$17.35 hr

12 hour Night shifts

full benefits