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What are some common nursing salaries for ER, Med surg, OR ICCU
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In reading all these different wages I can only hope that some day tha ANA will carry as much weight as the AMA. Until then consider union!
UOTE]Originally posted by iamme457:
I live in Pittsburgh PA, the base hourly rate I make is $17.71 add $1 an hour to night shift. I work in Med/surg ICU have 8 years experience including ER, Trauma and Critical Care Transport(flight)the hospital I am working in may end up going out of business.
I supplement my income with agency assignments, on a weekday at a nursing home I make $24/hr on weekends $26/hr, more than overtime pays at my regular job.
Middle management layoffs have occured over the last 5 years but no bedside nursing jobs have been eliminated yet. Many nurses have quit because of low pay and understaffing and no raise for the last 8 years at this facility also no career ladder and the school reimbursement is being cut soon. There are other higher paying hospitals in Pittsburgh but all have a history of layoffs for staff nurses so there is no job security.
Welcome to the Rust Belt........many patients are indigents/self pay which means free hospital stay. The loss of jobs for the steelworkers really hurt, union jobs usually had wonderful benefits that paid for all the medical needs.
I dont know that there is a solution to this problem...Low pay, high stress.
Someday a nurse will be in the Smithsonian Institute as an extinct species..just kidding.
Not sure where this is headed, 5 years ago I said it couldnt get any worse but look at where we are now. My grandmother was a nurse and things have certainly changed and improved since the 1930's tuberculosis was their big challenge as was polio. She took care of Teddy Roosevelt as he sat in a wheelchair. I have more complex skills, much more autonomy, a higher level of stress and get paid a much higher rate than she did. I have a benefit package (meager as it is) and I am allowed to be married and have kids while in nursing school. I also have a leave of absence for maternity-she had to quit to raise her family, I can work while pregnant-she wasnt allowed to.
Working in a constantly changing profession is a challenge but I dont think I would be quite as happy doing anything else.
Deanna
Hey there!
I'm an RN with 7yrs experience in various areas of nursing from critical care to home health. For the past 3 yrs I've been working as an occupational health nurse making 50K+/yr with a benefit pk worth around 15K/yr and that's for 3 days/wk. On my days off, if I choose, I work in an ED for 20/hr just for kicks. I figured out early in my nursing career that if you want to make any money in this profession GET OUT OF THE HOSPITAL! I think the bottom line is to be loyal to no one but yourself and your profession. Certainly not a hospital. My services are sold to whoever wants to pay the most for them.
Greetings,
I'm an RN on a surgical floor making $16.80 with 3 years experience. I'm contingent (casual or prn) so I don't receive benefits and make the same hourly as those that do. We work 12.5 hour shifts with $1.50 shift differential. I work with nurses with 15 years experience that make about $.90 more an hour than I do. Our CICU nurses make the same. But I usually have only 6 patients with 2 of them fresh surgeries a day. Some of my classmates have as many as 12 patients and are making the same in other area hospitals. We've just unionized and are waiting to see what happens. I love nursing but also have to juggle with the "do I do patient care or chart" time constraints. And I have to continually chaff doctors to do their job like "what route and frequency of demerol on this order?"
New grad pay in a hospital is 14.80 an hour. I have 6 yrs exp. & make 17.80 an hr. plus 2.00 shift diff. for 3-7pm & 3.00 shift diff. for 11pm-7am. Also 3.00 xtra an hr. for weekends. PRN pay is 23.00 an hr. with no benefits & plenty of hrs. Agency work is 24.00-30.00 an hr. Often the hosp. pay is supplemented with 12.00-15.50 an hr. for incentive pay. There is also a HUGE shortage of nurses! We are OVERWORKED & extremely UNDERPAID for the amt. of stress we have!!
Originally posted by NorthernRN:To add on to your message.....agency RN's in San Antonio are making $20+/hr and the larger hospital systems are paying about that for experienced, specialized RN's. Dialysis clinics are paying a little less than that...about $18/hr + to start. But you also have to consider what they will deduct from your pay for med/dental benefits.
I agree with you about benifits. I live outside of Indy in a small town and with 4 years of various experience(dialysis, LTC, manage GP practice) and now love my job in Home Health. I just started at $16/hr which doesn't sound like much at first but I only pay $75/mo for full family medical coverage ($500 individual ded.max 1500)+ dental ($25 ded per person). I get $.325 a mile and get paid for my total time a day. I do about 35-40 visits/wk call every 6th weekend and one night a week. I work for a non for profit org. and think we are treated fairly well. I am the only one working in our house as my husband is disabled d/t severe back injury. I have 2 grade school children and I alone was able to buy a nice home. I don't think it's all that bad.
I live in Texas and I have to admit that our nurses are making great $ compared to our cost of living expenses. An RN will start at $20-$22 and a LVN will start at $17.50. That is not bad considering average rent is $600-$700 a month. I am moving to Florida in 4 months. Please let me know (anyone) about the salaries there. Thanks!!!
Mrs.A.3rd
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hello from sunny las vegas where I am an lpn in a snf employed as resident care manager and mds coordinator
$19.25/hr
severe shortage..looking for a charge nurse/lpn 17 bucks/hr
come on down !!