You're a nurse? How much do you make?

[Brian]

just sharing this here:

somebody asked: "you're a nurse?" that's cool, i wanted to do that when i was a kid. how much do you make?"

the nurse replied: "how much do i make?" ...

i can make holding your hand seem like the most important thing in the world when you're scared...

i can make your child breathe when they stop...

i can help your father survive a heart attack...

i can make myself get up at 5am to make sure your mother has the medicine she needs to live...

i work all day to save the lives of strangers...

i make my family wait for dinner until i know your family member is taken care of...

i make myself skip lunch so that i can make sure that everything i did for your wife today is charted...

i make myself work weekends and holidays because people don't just get sick monday - friday. today, i might save your life.

how much do i make?

all i know is, i make a difference.

[unplannedRN]

This is very good, Brian....thanks for an upper.

[jobhunting, ASN, RN]

LOL this is nice, but then I'd get the feeling that they'd just roll their eyes and give me that ''really????" face? c'mon how much do you really??? make?

Then I'd proceed to restate that entire paragraph over again.

Hilarious!

[RainMom]

Actually.... my bring home pay is often less than my salary from the job I left of 16 yrs to be an RN.

[NICURN2FNP]

Unfortunately "thank you"s don't put gas in the car, food on the table, or pay the bills.

I am a RN and I make $0. (New grad).

Volunteering @ free clinic: priceless.

The word "Thank You" worths so much. It makes me fly in the sky for days.

[LovedRN, BSN, RN]

Unfortunately "thank you"s don't put gas in the car, food on the table, or pay the bills.

Sadly true.

[Vespertinas]

"an experienced staff nurse can earn around $100,000 a year in some settings."

that's so far out of the normal range (at least in my state) that i wouldn't say that. sure, it's possible... but why would i quote the uppermost 99th percentile to distort the inquirer's concept of nursing salary? i think giving an "average" salary would answer the question better.