Highest paying LVN job?? - Page 2

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  1. Jul 17, '06 by
    I would think contract nursing would pay the most. I've lived in GA and NC and the prison jobs there were state jobs. The pay was just about the lowest scale of any other facility. The only upside to corrections were the state benefits and retirement.
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    Jul 18, '06 by
    When I completed my California LVN program nine months ago, a recruiter from the prison system came to our school and told us that the top LVN pay for California correctional nurses was $6,100 monthly. Of course, all nurses who are amployed with the California Department of Corrections are trained as peace officers and carry loaded weapons.
  3. Jul 21, '06 by
    my instructor in lvn prgm work at a correctional facility. he's an RN going on for his MSN.. he's a guy, a big bald guy.. hehe... i asked him if it's scary to work there. he said it's not since you jst hv to give meds and also maybe paperworks. and there's correctional officers everywhere. and he said that you have to carry this kind of a remote thing with a button and u jst hv to push it and in 3 sec, the CO are there. but what if in 3 sec u already got beaten up?

    but yah, on tv like those insiders on primetime tv show, ive seen nurses jst passing meds.... im sure they do more than that....
  4. Jul 21, '06 by
    Talk about expensive places to live....Miami, Florida is a very expensive place to live as well... and let me tell the jobs here are not paying on the same scale as places like San Fransico. There are a lot of openings in corrections for nurses...but the pay scale is not very high (new nurses start with 18.50 for days and night nurses $20 w/diff)...a lot of people are moving from Miami due to the high cost of living and the low pay...I priced a townhome yesterday a 3/2 1/2 for $380,000 it's not in a gated community...the average 3/2 house costs $450,000 and a house in a gated community, nice neigborhood, with 4 or more bedroom $700,000. And if you want to rent...ha, ha, in a nice neighborhood, of course, 1bd 1bth $1100
    2bd 2bth $1300 and 3/2 as much as $1600. So if you move here not only will the cost of living be high, the pay will not match. And yes, we are planning to move.
  5. Jul 21, '06 by
    Quote from lilthorina
    my instructor in lvn prgm work at a correctional facility. he's an RN going on for his MSN.. he's a guy, a big bald guy.. hehe... i asked him if it's scary to work there. he said it's not since you jst hv to give meds and also maybe paperworks. and there's correctional officers everywhere. and he said that you have to carry this kind of a remote thing with a button and u jst hv to push it and in 3 sec, the CO are there. but what if in 3 sec u already got beaten up?

    but yah, on tv like those insiders on primetime tv show, ive seen nurses jst passing meds.... im sure they do more than that....
    I'm glad that's how it works in his facility...at the facility I work in there are emergencies and sometimes the officers fall asleep at night...we do have those alarms that he mentioned, but there is more to it than just passing meds...
  6. Jul 22, '06 by
    [quote=nursecrickett]I am wondering.....

    What do you think would be the LVN job...


    I work in Marin County which is across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco and my hourly wage is 30.00/hr. With overtime, I made 98,000 last year and expect to make over 100,000 this year working in a LTC and rehab facility. I'm from Texas and will be going back after I get my house paid off.
    Agency nursing is what I prefer and can't wait to get back because LVNs in CA aren't allowed to do much in the hospital compared to what I was allowed to do in Texas. There, I worked in telemetry(had my own patients) and was occasionally floated to ICU and the ER. California has its good points but there is nothing like your own home.
  7. Jul 24, '06 by
    Quote from savage
    Agency nursing is what I prefer and can't wait to get back because LVNs in CA aren't allowed to do much in the hospital compared to what I was allowed to do in Texas. There, I worked in telemetry(had my own patients) and was occasionally floated to ICU and the ER. California has its good points but there is nothing like your own home.

    im from south california and i hv workd as a nurse tech while i was in nursing skool. my floor was telemetry. and the RNs there really have the chance to get floated to ICU, ER, or cathlab and other dept (ortho & onco). although they dont like to get floated... which i think is really nice coz youll get that experience workn on those critical floors. and they say that they get all kinds of patients from ER, ICU, CCU, ortho, and onco... which makes it easy for the nurses there to step up and consider getting in the ICU/CCu floor right away (with courses). it is a good foundation to start with.....

    im thinking of going back to a telemetry floor as an lvn once i get my license but ill probably wont work on the same hospital ive workd at as a nurse tech.... though i dont work there anymore....
  8. Aug 30, '06 by
    Peace

    1st it does depend on where your geographically located. What I’ve found the highest paying LPN/LVN jobs are in the following order: Medicaid Provider-Contract Nursing-Traveling Nursing, Nursing Agency, Dialysis Center, Nursing Home, Hospital, and Doctor Office.

    I’ve also found that it’s not what you know, but who you know!

    Peace
    Wisedome
  9. Sep 1, '06 by
    Good grief ...I paid $6K for my house . How do people afford to live in these high priced places??????




    Quote from ex1140
    Talk about expensive places to live....Miami, Florida is a very expensive place to live as well... and let me tell the jobs here are not paying on the same scale as places like San Fransico. There are a lot of openings in corrections for nurses...but the pay scale is not very high (new nurses start with 18.50 for days and night nurses $20 w/diff)...a lot of people are moving from Miami due to the high cost of living and the low pay...I priced a townhome yesterday a 3/2 1/2 for $380,000 it's not in a gated community...the average 3/2 house costs $450,000 and a house in a gated community, nice neigborhood, with 4 or more bedroom $700,000. And if you want to rent...ha, ha, in a nice neighborhood, of course, 1bd 1bth $1100
    2bd 2bth $1300 and 3/2 as much as $1600. So if you move here not only will the cost of living be high, the pay will not match. And yes, we are planning to move.
  10. Sep 2, '06 by
    Quote from txspadequeen921
    Good grief ...I paid $6K for my house . How do people afford to live in these high priced places??????
    Where did you find a house for $6,000 that is livable?!!?
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