Do you think you are adequately compensated in your job as a nurse?

Not no, but, HELL NO!!

1. An associates degree nurse needs more credits than any other major, and makes less money,
2. most facilities don't compensate for a BSN, let alone a MSN, unless you're in management,
3. new grads make almost as much as an experienced nurse.


All comes down to money, respect, appreciation.

We're supposed to get our reward in heaven.

Not no, but, HELL NO!!

1. An associates degree nurse needs more credits than any other major, and makes less money,

An RN with an ASN generally makes the same as a BSN. Of course, they can get into management.

For what it cost me to go to school the wages and benefits definatly could be better. It is a high stress high burn out job and we should be compensated for it. My husband is a car salesman with no college education and he make about 10-15,000 more a year than I do. Crazy I know. He also said that for what it cost me to go to school the wage does not correlate with what is required in our job.
We are the back bones of the healthcare system and we get shoty wages and benefits. We are responsible for peoples lives. We are the ones who are supposed to know when a patient is going down hill what to do when they head south, give the right meds know what they do what their side effects are and get the right people involved at the right time plus manage 5 other patients. We do have a lot of responsiblity and I don't feel like it is recognized or that nurses are taken seriously enough in regards to our knowledge and profession.
However, I do love what I do and I guess you can't put a price on that. I love the hugs I get from the little kid that just had surgery and is going home or the thanks I get for being a good nurse to my patients. Money can not replace that happy feeling of knowing that you helped someone feel better or made their hospital stay more tolerable. It just makes you smile inside and out, no amount of money can give you that same feeling.