This made me mad when I saw it.

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mombabyRN96

30 Posts

Specializes in med/surg; floatpool, mom/baby, nursery.

WOW!! I am speechless.

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN

1 Article; 5,115 Posts

alas, in my time there has been an occasion or two that i would have taken that job, and taken it with a smile on my face. i might not have stayed very long, but ya know, sometimes you do what you have to do. did i ever tell you about the three days i spent calling to sell time magazines in a telephone boiler room? or when i delivered magazines to ob/gyn offices and maternity wear departments all over town? all to stay afloat when i was an impoverished single mother and couldn't work shifts.

but this job? they wouldn't have liked me much.:D not stupid enough to have taken it.

Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN

4 Articles; 7,907 Posts

Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

Unfortunately it's an employer's job market and they can decide what they are looking for and what they want to pay. It's up to someone whether they are willing to accept those terms of employment.

netglow, ASN, RN

4,412 Posts

upper middle class/upper class area within a overall higher income part of the country.

kcmylorn

991 Posts

This sounds like something the corporate healthcare varmits in my area would do.

We nurses have to start thinking something of our selves and take a stand against this or this will be rampant.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel someone starding to set another precident in the nursing salary/healthcare world. Our salaries were on the rise from the late 1980's into the 1990's and early 2000's. We were beginning to attain a decent compensation baseline salary for the amount of responsibilty, body of knowledge and the breath of our job descriptions. This is loosing omentum with the great recession, high unemployment amongst nurses, and the letting go of and exclusion of certain groups in nursing- the 50 yr and up age group, the nurses with chronic disease states.

The military trys to keep,salvage every service member they have. If one is wounded or ill with a chronic disease, the military will career counsel, retrain and fit that service member into a job/position they are able to perform, just to hold on to the talent. The military will cut positions but will offer to retrain the displaced service menber into another position- it's up to the service memeber to accept the offer. For example: a sargent who works in the civilan contracting office, the military will offer to send that sargent to computer traind school to put that person into another unit" a soldier who has his leg blown off in Afghanistan will be rehabilitated and fitted with an artifical limb to do public speaking to other wounded vets or educated to perform a desk position. A service member who has an Insulin pump will be trained for administrative work and will be transferred base to base just like the others, he may not be deployed to war zones(World Wide Readiness) but he/she will be re assigned to duties they can do. If a service member suffers from depression, which maybe a temporary state- the same thing, taking off the world wide readiness temproarily, until they are cleared The military has the WTU- Warrior Transition Unit, and the Wounded Warrior Program- the motto is "no soldier left behind" Why are we nurse allowing these greedy healthcare corporations to leave us behind????????????????????????????????? These corporate healthcare CEO's are not even nurses but they are ruling our profession and employment!!

littlenurse23

28 Posts

wow! they want a bachelors degree for that job? you have got to be kidding me!!!!!! sounds like a medical assistants job which is usually a 1 year program and they typically get more than $10 i'd say closer to $13 but again that's for a medical assistant with a 1 year tech certificate not an applicant with a bachelors degree! sheesh.

Patti_RN

353 Posts

Specializes in ..

Does it sound underpaid? It sure does. But, it's silly to consider sending the employer a castigating email or predicting their possibility of finding a suitable employee. Review all the messages on this board from grads who can't find jobs at all and ask one of them if they'd consider working for $10/hour. Maybe most wouldn't, but some surely would. And, considering the working conditions many new grads experience, this doesn't sound like a stressful position. Again, read some of the stories from first year nurses who have panic attacks, bouts of GI upset, and sleepless nights before and after each shift. Lots of new nurses quit before their first year anniversary. Personally, I'd rather have a job with low stress than be paid considerably more and end up burned out.

If a person is unemployed they receive no compensation, and some grads have been unemployed 6 months or a year, or even two years--that's a long time to go without a paycheck--and a long time for that degree to get stale (your probability of landing a job with no experience when your degree was issued months or years before decreases with each new graduating class--you're now competing with grads with fresh skills). At even $10 an hour that's $400/week or $20,000/yr. While YOU don't want the job it's fairly certain that someone will take that job and at least have money for food and shelter for a year... or two. Yes, it seems they'd be underpaid, but they would be $20K ahead of other grads who were unemployed for the same year, plus they'd have an entry on their resume, and maybe health insurance. Compare those two grads after a year--the first still unemployed, the second $20K ahead, significant experience, and a valuable entry on their resume: who do you think the next employer will choose?

One of the consequences of the surplus of nursing grads is the downward pressure this puts on salaries. Some years ago when there were few applicants for each nursing job the applicants could be more demanding; now there may be hundreds of applicants for each position so employers can offer less and demand more; someone will take the job. Sadly, even jobs that are underpaid will attract applicants; part of the blame lies with the economy in general, part with the number of applicants vs. vacant positions.

RN1485, BSN

124 Posts

Specializes in Case Management, Public Health, Psych, Medsurg.

I graduated in 2009 with a BA in Sociology and have yet to find a job that pertains to my degree let alone find a job that pays $10/hour or more. I'm a CNA now and my facility pays me 8.50! LTC and AL facilities are the ONLY places who will hire me, but they pay way less than what I think they should. I do plan on going to school for nursing in the future so at least it's experience.

carrie_c

235 Posts

OMG. I would wait tables first.

Specializes in ICU.

There is a school near me that churns out people with BA's in social work. My sister-in-law fell for their sales pitch. When she was graduating she was telling everyone she couldn't afford to work for less than $16.00 per hour to make it worthwhile. That was several years ago, and she is working a grocery checkout. There are people all over this area with those social worker degrees working minimum wage jobs. It's a shame that they con people into getting those degrees.

Bortaz, MSN, RN

2,628 Posts

Specializes in CDI Supervisor; Formerly NICU.

they need to hire an editor to fix the shoddy language in that posting.

if we interview, you will bring documentation that you completed a 4 year college and your gpa above 3.5/4.0.

really?

NayRN

122 Posts

Specializes in med/surg.
OMG. I would wait tables first.

I miss waiting tables sometimes. Much less stress and responsibility than nursing. On a good day, or during the busy season, I made as much (or more) than I do as a nurse, and I worked shorter hours. But it was unpredictable and not always reliable source of income.

There are actually lots of similarities between nursing and waiting tables. They are both service industries, both deal directly with the public, and I think I was better prepared for the ignorance of people because of my years of waiting tables. There are some differences, however. Although people can be rude, eating out is usually a happy occasion. Most folks in the hospital aren't all that happy. So although you can sometimes feel degraded by an especially rude customer, it is nothing to how mean a dissatisfied family or patient can be toward a nurse. At a restaurant, you can walk away or tell them that you won't serve them anymore alcohol, and they may throw a fit, but they will eventually leave. In the hospital, you do service recovery and you have to keep pushing the dilaudid because it is ordered and you have to put up with these people for days on end! Because if you don't, not only will you be reprimanded by your work place for poor customer service (who cares if the pt goes outside to smoke immediately after each dose of IV dilaudid) but these people will threaten your job, your livelihood, your license, and everything else you have worked so hard for. And who knows-they just might get it all taken away. I've heard horror stories.

So, a little off topic, but the point is that sometimes, having a simple job that pays a little less that doesn't come home with you everyday seems like heaven. I'm actually planning on picking up a second job waiting tables this summer. I'm a little disillusioned with nursing. I resent the debt that I have because of nursing school. I hate that I deal with the scum of the Earth on a regular basis and have to kiss their butts but I still have to get a second job to make ends meet. Yes there are good parts to nursing, but I think they are losing to the bad ones.

Sorry about the rant. Have a nice day.

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