would you be a RN for $11.00/hr?

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Just for fun lets just pretend the starting wage for an RN (regardless of education just RN) started at $11.00 hr. Would you still be a nurse? Also, what would be an acceptable starting pay for you to consider the field?. Ill start it off by saying no I would not at $11 hr (to much risk, slave wage for the type of job it is etc) and even though our starting pay around here is $27 hr for new grads I would work for about $20 hr. Be honest with you answers :)

NO way!!

I average $150-$200 a night bartending not including $50 shift pay with no schooling or degree!!

I guess if you live in an area that pays RN's so little you need to continue your education so you can make an acceptable salary.

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Heck no! The pay in FL is low enough as it is, and last time I checked cost of living was no excuse. Anyone try to buy/insure/pay taxes as a new home buyer in Tampa lately? I'm still a student, but I doubt much will change in a year and a half.

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Are you for real?

Are you insinuating that as nurses we should work for whatever crappy wage management deems fit to dole out? That at $11.00/hr we love our job as nurses so much we would do it for practically nothing?

The fact that you would even ask this question demonstrates how nurses in general have the politics of 50 years ago.

Nursing school is hell! Maintaining a license is tedious! Nursing is exceptionally demanding, at times draining, and without a doubt the most important function of a hospital.

The question you should be asking is: would I work for less than $22.00/hr?

We are not angels. We are highly skilled,we have degrees and are well trained health care providers.

Nursing salaries are starting to go down despite the "nursing shortage" Does this make any sense? Yes. Because (I don't mean to be rude) nurses asking your type of silly question are putting us there.

Do plumbers make 11/hr? Do carpenters? Do truckers? Why nurses?

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Cardiac, ICU.

H E double hockey sticks NO.

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no, I would not work for $11/hour

23 years ago I was being paid around $12/hour and

ten years later I was being paid $20/hour

so by now it should be around $35/hour

considering the responsibilities involved in nursing and the education involved, I wouldn't accept less

I can get a job telemarketing (which requires no significant education, just accuracy and good customer sales & service abilities) for $10/hour right now {and for that I can just do the job and forget it for the rest of the day}

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sorry to say...I don't think I'd be a nurse for $11 and hour. I would make $11/hr babysitting. I just recently got married, and I live in the NE and there is no way I'd be able to keep up w/all my bills at $11/hr.

Right now I'm making $27 and I'm a fairly new grad (May)

Don't get me wrong I love nursing....but....:uhoh3:

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In 2002-2005 I worked at a hospital for 23.95 a hr as a med surg rn. Went into private duty Home Care, at this time I recieve 65.00 for 1 hr. opener, 58.00 for a discharge, 59.00 for a reg. visit (35-40 min) I work at an average o 52.00 an hr., set my own schedule, see approx 4-6 pts. a day, takes about an hour at home for paper work. Wouldn't trade it for the world and love what I do. Home care is the way to go, but only if its private duty. and you work contingent. To put it short, I laugh at 11.00 an hour considering the responsibility that an rn must accept

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Specializes in OB.

Yup, I have wanted to be a nurse forever, and I never knew what the salaries ranged until I was deep into nursing school. :-)

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Get rid of all the school, license requirements, codes, dressing changes, Iv's, anything that causes stress or pain to a patient, the whole death and dying thing, and the legal issues. As well as there be no life threatening risk factors for infections we have no cure for. Well then still no as it is not nursing as we know it.

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I live in East Texas and they are starting out new grads at $18.35 with a $7000 bonus. With all of the stress and having to worry with all of the meds people are on these days. We have peoples' lives in our hands, that is worth a lot more than $11.00. Just to pay the gas to and from your work and if you have child care, you would be better off at home doing nothing. If of course this was a second income. I seriously wonder if nurses get paid enough as it is. We are responsible for soooo much it just blows my mind. I dont think as much responsbility was on the shoulders of an RN several years ago. Also, with the law suits now you almost have to have your own insurance policy besides what an employers has on you.

Just my opinion.

Bye

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Specializes in Med/Surg.
Just for fun lets just pretend the starting wage for an RN (regardless of education just RN) started at $11.00 hr. Would you still be a nurse? Also, what would be an acceptable starting pay for you to consider the field?. Ill start it off by saying no I would not at $11 hr (to much risk, slave wage for the type of job it is etc) and even though our starting pay around here is $27 hr for new grads I would work for about $20 hr. Be honest with you answers :)

i make more than 11 dollars an hour as a CNA for an hourly wage. I suppose if i was really really desperate and NEEDED that job , and had nothing else and no other options, then I would take it. I would definately look for another position QUICK!!!

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Absolutely NOT!!! The risks do not outweigh the benefits as I see it now. Here in Ohio, I am making just shy of $23.00 / hour. Though, this is at a rural hospital that doesn't see as much volume and we do not have an ICU.

We should be paid a heck of a lot more considering that we do everything that the docs should be doing or participating with.

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