Specialties Geriatric
Published Jul 16, 2000
How much does any LPN who works in upstate New York make an hour working in a nursing home passing meds?
cheerbabe914
1 Post
in ky at my LTC facility new LPN's start at $15.50 and get $1.25 more for doing nights
chatter
13 Posts
live in TX have been a nurse for 2 years just started at a LTC pay is 21.75/hr with $100 bonus for each extra shift we pick up in addition to hourly wage or over time. I guess we should quit griping.
ndynrs
12 Posts
THIS IS MUCH MORE LIKE WHAT I'M USED TO! $10.00 AN HOUR?! YEAH RIGHT!!!!
barbarake21
23 Posts
I live in Upstate SC. I'm a brand-new LPN (took the NCLEX-PN on Saturday, license issued Tuesday, applied on Wednesday, interviewed and accepted position at LTC facility today (Thursday)).
I'll be working 7A-7P Saturday and Sunday alternate weeks. (This is perfect for me since I'm going on for my RN.) Starting pay for new LPNs is $16.50/hr. Add $1.00/hr for weekends. Another $1.00/hr for '2nd shift' (from 3P-11P) and $1.50 for '3rd shift' (11P-7A). And any hours over 8 in a 24-hr period is time-and-a-half.
So I'll make $17.50/hr from 7A-3P, then 18.50/hr from 3P-4P, then roughly $27.00/hr from 3P-7P.
Passion4Compassion
Come to Vermont, starting pay is around $26/hr for ADNs.
CapeCodMermaid, RN
6,090 Posts
Is an ADNs an associate's degree prepared nurse or an Assistant Director of nursing?
SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN
10,263 Posts
$14.50 here and in nearby VT unless you work county, then it's $17.
OH, sorry about that, I mean ADN as in Associates Degree Nurse. The bonus being that many LPN programs will prepare you to make the $15+ while your employer pays for the Associates and then you can make an additonal $10/hr. That's what my hubby plans to do. Vanessa
Does your employer pay differently depending on which type of RN education the person has? BSNs used to make more but now employers want to see the RN not the initials after it.
fUsi0n86
59 Posts
I know one LPN that makes just over $40,000 a year with 30 years experience. That's New Jersey by the way.
aloha551
43 Posts
Come to Pa it's around $22.00 + if your IV certified..And frankly not enough for what an LPN does. And for the physical effort and the hardest job on the planet a CNA is worth a lot more than they are now paid. Considering the life expectancy of their back is 5 years. Love the staff I work with..... What ever you make , it's still not enough....
pureinstinct
2 Posts
august will make 2 yrs i have been an lpn. i started at local hospital, at 14.50 an hr...but was getting downstaffed alot. got offered a full-time 12 hr shift at skilled rehab, on days (on nights at hosp) and 50 cents more an hour plus 120.00 every pay attendance bonus...since then i am up tol 15.50 an hr and my bonus is 140.00 per pay (twice monthly). i get 72 hrs vacation and we earn personal time if we pick up a shift or half a shift , holidays are time and half and we get 50.00 bonus on our birthdays. christmas bonus's and also a bonus after state leaves and we have done well. i love my job,, but there are days i miss being a hospital nurse also. so have recently applied for prn. status back where i started when i got out of school. we will see what pans out !