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| No. 50 | 
Jan 26, 2008, 09:53 AM
 Re: Do you think you are adequately compensated in your job as a nurse?
I hear that! Our administration is the same way. They make bucho bucks and only look out for themselves and not the staff that is out their busting their asses on the floor.
You get $6 an hour difference for working overnocs?! At our facility we get and extra $0.80 and hour for overnocs and no weekend compensation either, we are getting ripped off. We also only get $1.50/hr for being on call for pacu & inpatient surg floor. I guess that's what happens when you live in SD.
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Feb 07, 2008, 01:02 AM
Re: Do you think you are adequately compensated in your job as a nurse?
Not even close!!!!The hospital where I work sent out a notice that the nurses would be getting a raise to bring our pay up to the rest of the hospitals in the area...Most of our nurses do NOT have their BSN...Well the time came and went the RN's got a substanial raise and the LPN's did not get a dime!!!! 
Excuse me but I thought that the N in LPN stood for nurse...So I am VERY truthful when I say I am the LOW PAY NURSE!!!!:
| | No. 54 |
Feb 07, 2008, 12:07 PM
Re: Do you think you are adequately compensated in your job as a nurse?
I am lucky in that I have a wonderful marriage to a man who provides well for his family. One morning I realized even that could end with a car accident, if the kids would have prom dresses and etc, I needed training. I worked off and on in a factory for $3.00 an hour (1979). I chose nursing because it paid well and I would not have to move. Got my ADN in 86. Now make 25.60 an hour after 21 years. I am satisfied,you see I remember the $3 but I am not happy with my salary. I also look at the teachers of my grandchildren, the influence they have. Also the flack they have to take and wonder- WHY do each of these positions not pay more? I would like to make more money, sure I would. As to shift diffs-East TN- nights 2.50/hr for RN, 1.75 hr for LPN, 1.00 hr CNA. Weekend Sat/Sun day and night and extra 2.50 for the RN, extra 1.75 for the LPN and 0 for the CNA. Going rate at my facility for a new grad is 17.50/hr. We hire a lot of grads, train them and then wave bye bye as they move on to better paid jobs at other Hospitals. When one CEO was asked where they found their trained nurses? the answer with a smile was !x1x1x (Our hospital), Yes we will pay you low, train you, and off you go. Management never seeems to learn. 20 years I have preached pay more they will stay longer, to no avail. Why do I stay? Eternal optimist. 59 years old this year and stuck in a rut. Would I do it again, yelp, I believe I would. Thank God (reverently) that my Husband is still a wonderful presence in my life.
| | No. 55 |
Feb 07, 2008, 12:28 PM
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Feb 07, 2008 at 10:30 PM by lindarn
Re: Do you think you are adequately compensated in your job as a nurse? Originally Posted by Gwennie Lee  I am lucky in that I have a wonderful marriage to a man who provides well for his family. One morning I realized even that could end with a car accident, if the kids would have prom dresses and etc, I needed training. I worked off and on in a factory for $3.00 an hour (1979). I chose nursing because it paid well and I would not have to move. Got my ADN in 86. Now make 25.60 an hour after 21 years. I am satisfied,you see I remember the $3 but I am not happy with my salary. I also look at the teachers of my grandchildren, the influence they have. Also the flack they have to take and wonder- WHY do each of these positions not pay more? I would like to make more money, sure I would. As to shift diffs-East TN- nights 2.50/hr for RN, 1.75 hr for LPN, 1.00 hr CNA. Weekend Sat/Sun day and night and extra 2.50 for the RN, extra 1.75 for the LPN and 0 for the CNA. Going rate at my facility for a new grad is 17.50/hr. We hire a lot of grads, train them and then wave bye bye as they move on to better paid jobs at other Hospitals. When one CEO was asked where they found their trained nurses? the answer with a smile was !x1x1x (Our hospital), Yes we will pay you low, train you, and off you go. Management never seeems to learn. 20 years I have preached pay more they will stay longer, to no avail. Why do I stay? Eternal optimist. 59 years old this year and stuck in a rut. Would I do it again, yelp, I believe I would. Thank God (reverently) that my Husband is still a wonderful presence in my life.
It will never change because there is a steady supply of new grads to bail them out. There is no shortage because "ABC Community College", churns our new grads every six months. When there is no constant supply of new grads, they will have to work on keeping the ones they have.
This means going the route of Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Pharmacists, and increase our entry into practice to a BSN. Period. It is supply and demand, and there is too much supply, and not enough demand. The above careers out earn nurses 2-3 x, and have a far better quality of life in their jobs than nurses.
They also control their career far more than nurses do. Their professional organization limits how many students are admitted to the schools, and therby prevents the glut of providers that we have in nursing.
Think outside the box, and look at the source that has prevented this change in education from happening: Hospitals and nursing homes. And lets not forget the Hospital Associations, who pressure our elected officials to "dumb down" our professional pracitice to allow HS dropouts to perform professional nursing functions.
Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN
Spokane, Washington
| | No. 57 |
Feb 25, 2008, 11:56 PM
Re: Do you think you are adequately compensated in your job as a nurse?
Nurses at any level have never been paid what they are worth. In 1980 when I graduated from lpn school, I took a pay cut from my job at roy rodgers as a runner to work in nursing.
A bsn has the same education as a teacher, but is paid less and works longer hours, weekends and holidays, and lets not forget we can be sued. A crappy teacher can destroy a child but once they are tenured, They have a job for life with prep time, lunch, full benefits and a pension. How many of us have that.
A state assembly person gets paid better than we do, and only works 1/3 the time we do and gets a pension and benifits,In nys it is a base of 70.000 year 150 a night he has to stay in albany and a stipend for every committee he sits on, for us it is just a honor to be asked, and a curse if you decline. no promotion for you, Remember getting reinbursed for inservices, travel expenses, uniform costs, if you don't then you entered nursing in the last 5 years. NO WE ARE NOT PAID WHAT WE ARE WORTH. WE ARE NOT TREATED WITH RESPECT OR DIGNITY AND THEY WONDER WHY THERE IS A NURSING SHORTAGE.
| | No. 58 |
Feb 26, 2008, 02:29 PM
Re: Do you think you are adequately compensated in your job as a nurse?
No, we are not paid what we are worth in my opinion. But I hear the same grumblings from people in many other professions. I work at a large teaching hospital in Boston, have been a nurse for one year (next week), and make $34.85/hr (have since gotten a few raises to keep up with the other area hospitals). That is more than the physical therapist, occupational therapist, and social workers in the hospital, all whom envy the pay scale of the nurses. Sure they don't envy the work or the crap we put up with on a daily basis, but sure love the flexibility (I work 3 days a week). I would like to ask my fellow nurses how much should you be paid ? What is fair compensation for what is expected of you? What is the living wage for the area in which you live? What is the average salary paid to workers in your area?
Gerard
| | No. 59 |
Feb 26, 2008, 09:13 PM
Re: Do you think you are adequately compensated in your job as a nurse?
I was just going through some old personel file papers the other day and saw what I was making 30 years ago, $6.63! I am, in my opinion very, very well compensated and don't like it when posters include me in their, "we as nurses aren't well paid".
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